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Bag of Patience: What Do People Live For?

(著) 富田直次郎

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[About the product]
-Everyone lives with worries-
Nearing the end of his career as a high school teacher, the author was appointed to be in charge of the Education Counseling Room. In the story, the author sent a text about his past events and memories to a student who refused to go to school and refused to even talk to him. This book is a compilation of those texts.--About a high school friend who chose to die, a certain teacher who was my mother's ideal teacher, and the words "Don't be jealous of others" that I came across at an inn in Hiroshima where I happened to stay once upon a time. , about my brother who died at a young age... "Bag of Patience", which approaches people's lives through numerous episodes, is now available in English translation.

[Contents]

FOREWORD
VOLUME 1 WHEN I WAS A BOY
VOLUME 2 WHAT DO PEOPLE LIVE FOR?
Episode 1 A Little Sad Story
Episode 2 What Do People Live For?
Episode 3 The Story of Fujio Tomoda
VOLUME 3: DO NOT ENVY OTHERS
Episode 1 About Mr. Shizuka Nakajima
Episode 2: About Fugai-Ekun
Episode 3 Don't Envy People
Episode 4 Like a Single Glass Cup
Episode 5: The Story of Losing a Wallet While Traveling
VOLUME 4 A CORN STORY
VOLUME 5: ADONIS AMURENSIS VOLUME
Episode 1 The Story of Adonis Amurensis
Episode 2: The Story of the First Tea Party
(1) Invited to Shibamata's Taishakuten Tea Party
(2) Nodate-Style Chairs
(3) After Having Lunch
(4) What Exactly is Chattering?
Episode 3: The Drunkard Speaks Without Even Being Asked
Episode 4: The Story of the Ramen Shop's Young Man
VOLUME 6 MT. FUJI FOOT STORY
(1) Sudden Transfer
(2) The Life of the Wife Who Remained at Home
(3) Plateau Classroom
(4) In-school Marathon Race
(5) Snow Smoke
VOLUME 7 VOLUME OF THE FIRST MEMORIES
(1) Brother's Story
(2) When My Father Went to War
(3) The Story of Egg-sized Hail
(4) I Did Not Crawl
(5) Second Memory
VOLUME 8 TINKER BELL STORY
Episode 1 Never Lose Your Initial Enthusiasm
Episode 2 Father's hospitalization
Episode 3 Substitution
POSTSCRIPT
About the Origin of "Bag of Patience"
(1) When I Was a Novice Teacher
(2) My Sarashina Diary
(3) Is the Education Counseling Room a room for confinement?
(4) About Confidentiality
(5) Treatment of Schizophrenia
(6) Subsequent Story
AUTHOR PROFILE

[Comments from the Editor]
When your heart becomes tangled, what can gently untangle it is surprisingly someone's casual stories about their daily lives or memories from the past. Please take a look at the guideposts for life written by the author, who has been deeply involved in school issues.

[Author Profile]
Naojiro Tomida
Born in Hamamatsu City in 1941.
In 1963, he graduated from Kokugakuin University, Department of Literature, and was assigned to Shizuoka Prefectural High School as a teacher. On the way, he transferred to a public high school in Chiba Prefecture, but he returned to Shizuoka Prefecture and retired in 2001.
Currently, he is the chief priest of Kaba Shinmeigu Shrine, and concurrently serves as the head priest of 12 other shrines. He is the chairman of the Shizuoka Prefectural Association of Educational Shinto priests. He is a lecturer at SBS Gakuen's "Introduction to Shinto" course. Chairman of Nakanomachi 3rd Land Improvement District.