日本人の美意識 ～The Japanese Idea of Beauty

　日本人より日本に精通している！Ash先生の「英語で学ぶ日本文化」が関西にも上陸です。

　2013年の開講以来、不定期で開催して好評を博しているAsh先生の日本文化講座。単なる英語による日本文化紹介に留まらず、通訳ガイドに必要な様々な日本の文化・社会・事象についての知識・表現が豊富に盛り込まれています。日本文化に精通した外国人の眼を通して見る、日本文化の神髄。きっと、新たな”気付き”を与えてくれることでしょう。

　多忙なAsh先生を関西にお招きする機会は本当に限られています。今回は内容も刷新、既刊のCD&小冊子から更にパワーアップしての講演です。このチャンスをお見逃しなく！

前回のレクチャーノートからの抜粋 / Excerpts from the lecture notes.

＜２．人生とは「無常」(Impermanence as a way of life.)＞
・日本人の人生観と美意識に影響を与えた2つの考え方
（Two Major ideas in Japanese philosophy and aesthetics:）

①無常（Impermanance）
Mujo is a central idea.  
Not always as regret but as something to be celebrated.  
The wave idea: In the Buddhist tradition, all things are considered as either evolving from or dissolving into nothingness. This 'nothingness' is not empty space.
It is, rather, a space of potentiality.
If we take the seas as representing potential zen each thing is like a wave arising from it and returning to it.
There are no permanent waves. There are no perfect waves.
At no point is a wave complete, even at its peak.

②自己修養の習慣（The practice of self cultivation.）
・・・以下は講義でのお楽しみ・・・

◆ロンドンで、英国ケンブリッジ大学認定上級英語資格を取得。講談社でのディレクター歴など、通訳案内士指導の第一人者。と同時に、茶道、禅をはじめとする日本文化に精通している。

◆Academic Background:

B.A. English Literature/ Medieval History University of NSW, Sydney, Australia

RSA/ Cambridge University Diploma In Teaching English to Adults (DELTA), London, England.

 Teaching and Personal Background:

Ash Warren has been teaching in Japan since 1992. Over the last 20 years he has been teaching in high schools, colleges, universities and major companies throughout Japan. Since 2000 he has been President of the Warren School of Languages and Culture, Tokyo. He has also written for major newspapers on Japanese culture and been a longtime contributor to the Asahi Weekly on matters relating to English Language and Japanese culture, and was Director of Curriculum Design for Obunsha.

Ash has been a student of Japanese and Chinese culture for over 30 years. He has been preparing students for the National Interpreter/Guide Examination since 1997 and since then he has prepared hundreds of students to successfully pass this examination. His school currently has a 95% success record in students passing the speaking test, which is the highest in the country.

Ash holds a teaching licence from the Urasenke school of Tea, and has studied various Japanese and Chinese arts and is an expert in Zen and Chinese Buddhism, as well as a published English haiku poet and journalist

★Ash先生の本講座を、CDと小冊子で再現。(2013年Ver.です)

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