I read Yoriko Kobayashi 'Vermeer' (kadokawashoten.)
I read repeatedly the comments of 'Woman reading a letter', 'A lady writing a letter' and 'Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid.' They are now exhibited at Kyoto City Museum where I am going to see.
I read Minoru Tanba 'Waga Gaiko Jinsei' (Chuokoronshinsha.)
He says about 'three ifs' about Russian-held Japanese northern island.
They are 'if Prime Minister Hasimoto kept his position one more year', 'if President Yeltsin were safe from illness' and 'if there was not financial met down in Russia at 1998'
He thinks the territorial dispute would be resolved under those conditions 80% of the time.
I read Tadao Umesao 'Mogoru Zoku Tankenki' (Iwanamishinsho.)
This is the record of the expedition to Karakorum-Hindu Kush by the anthropology studying group of Kyoto University.It was done over 50years ago. At that time communication systems were poor. They conducted their field work with difficulty.
I read Akira Yoshimura 'Shinkai no Shisha' (Bunshunbunko.)
It is the story of Japanese submarines at world war Ⅱ.
Several submarines were ordered secretly to to to German. But it was the hard task because of the custody of coalition troops. Yoshimura undertook an elaborate investigation and hearing to make the stories.