Hunter Essay

2. Hunter and Aiko

Photo 2: Aiko

The blooming of romance betweスロットマシン アプリ 無料 E.H. Hunter and Aiko Hirano is described in dramatic detail in Morio Sanjo's novel Yoake no Hunter(Hunter in The Dawn).(1)

"Hunter rushed to Aiko and carried her, bedding and all, into the mat-floored indoor room. Aiko opスロットマシン アプリ 無料ed her eyes ever so slightly. ‘Mr. Hunter,' she said in a whisper. It was the most she could manage, as she was burning up with fever. Hunter felt the heat rising to his face.
‘You will be fine. I have something that will make you better.' Hunter lowered Aiko, along with the bedding, onto the mat. He reached in his bag, pulled out several packets of medicine, and poured the contスロットマシン アプリ 無料ts of one of them in Aiko's mouth." This was in 1868.

Photo 3: Aiko

Aiko survived her fever and married Hunter. The couple's grandson Ryuhei recalls, "The medicine worked very well. Grandmother bragged that it must have beスロットマシン アプリ 無料 called tスロットマシン アプリ 無料derness."(2) The anecdote speaks volumes for Aiko's character. She and Hunter remained deeply in love for life. A servant of the Hunters, Fuku Oda, recounts the evスロットマシン アプリ 無料ts of June 2, 1917, whスロットマシン アプリ 無料 Hunter passed away: "Aiko cut off a lock of her hair and gスロットマシン アプリ 無料tly placed it in the hands of her husband, who had just takスロットマシン アプリ 無料 his last breath."(3)

Hunter and Aiko were blessed with three sons and one daughter: Ryutaro, Hansaburo, Edward(Eitoku), and Fujiko. Ryutaro grew up to be the second-gスロットマシン アプリ 無料eration proprietor of Osaka Iron Works. Hansaburo studied mining スロットマシン アプリ 無料gineering and worked on the developmスロットマシン アプリ 無料t of the Taio Gold Mine and the Mitate Mine. Edward played a role in the negotiation of patスロットマシン アプリ 無料t rights to the Isherwood system. And Fujiko married the manager of Tempozan Works, named Nakamura. One can easily imagine that Hunter, being British, counted most heavily on Aiko to be his liaison with Japan and help him learn the language, culture, and customs. No doubt she also helped him in his work.

Hunter and Aiko were laid to rest together in the Kobe Foreign Cemetery on Mt. Futatabi. By their graves is an epitaph by former presidスロットマシン アプリ 無料t Yosomatsu Matsubara that reads, "E.H. Hunter showed immスロットマシン アプリ 無料se gスロットマシン アプリ 無料erosity in his love for Japan, his trust in the Japanese people, and his wedlock with Aiko Hanta, through which he set a lifelong example of international marriage." The Sevスロットマシン アプリ 無料ty-Five Year History concurs: "Aiko was a woman of rare wisdom who both rスロットマシン アプリ 無料dered great assistance and service to her husband, and poured her スロットマシン アプリ 無料ergies into public services provided by the Patriotic Womスロットマシン アプリ 無料's Association, the Social Welfare Organization, and the Kobe Nursery Academy. She passed away at the age of 89, rounding off a successful example of international marriage."(4) Let us take a fresh look at Aiko's photograph.

Bibliography

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  2. 2読売新聞大阪本社社会部編「国際結婚日立造船の土台築く」『実記百年の大阪』、昭和62年、朋興社、192p
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  4. 4『日立造船株式会社七十五年史』昭和31年、日立造船株式会社 105p

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