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| 沖縄の精神医療 / 小椋 力 / 中山書店 |
今、「精神医学の知と技 沖縄の精神医療」という本を読んでいます。
こちらは、私の住む国の沖縄県での精神医療とユタという今も活躍されているシャーマンとの関係を、お医者様が科学と医学的に紐解く本です。
私はちょっと事情があって日本の近代史も殆どやっていないので、初めて知る沖縄という事で序文から驚きの連続です。
内容については咀嚼が必要なので、今日は記しません。
1998年の医介輔(いかいほ)と患者との診療後の語らいの写真には、扇風機がひと部屋に2つ置いてあるんです。
風を2方向から患者に当てています。
扇風機を沖縄ではひと部屋に2個置いていますので、どんどん暑く気温が上昇している現代の日本でも、沖縄以外の土地は、全員これを真似した方が良いと思いました。
それまで1扇風機+マイ扇風機はギークしかやらないものと(PCの熱で暑くなる為)思っていた私は、写真を見て膝を打ちました。
私は今年からひと部屋に扇風機2台体制で行きます。
実は上の写真はブックデザインのカバーを外して撮っています。
理由は、偶然ブックカバーが取れた時に、下のデザインが出て来てそのエバー・グリーンなデザインがとても良かったので、こちらにしました。
著者の小椋 力(おぐら・ちから)先生のデザインの意向は、恐らく此方のカレッジなデザインだと思ったからです。
本来のブックカバーデザインも悪いわけではないですが、ブックカバーのデザインが見るものに訴えかけるメッセージは、
「此れはとても難しく、沖縄という誰もが知っている苦しみについて、書かれています」です。
対して写真に撮った、カバーの下のデザインは、カレッジなエバー・グリーンデザインで統一され、精神医学の知と技という英文が表紙に置かれています。
写真と同じフォントが呼び出せないので、このフォントとフォントデザインから受ける皆さんの感じた印象と同質なものを、この本の内容で伝えたいのだと思います。
「Knowledge and Arts Of Psychiatry」
科学とインテリジェンスというメッセージです。
デザインメッセージというのは此れ程重要なものなので、「精神医学の知と技 沖縄の精神医療」には、ひと部屋に扇風機2台を設置するだけでなく、実は沖縄は琉球王国の時代から、日本より100年以上前に麻酔を用いた手術が行われていたという、医術最先地であり続けている土地である、という驚くべき事実が記されています。
本の装丁というのは、こういうデザインメッセージでネットや書店で見かけた人々の興味と本の内容を適切に的確に伝える役割も持っているんですよね。
とても美しく、初対面なのに昔、誰も憶えていない程昔に、青年の時期を過ごした相手のような知性と洗練を感じます。
以上、青年の新緑を咲く、でした。
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20260223 23:05 文章を追加しました。
20260223 23:25 琉球国でも良いとありましたが、琉球王国に直しました。大変、失礼致しました。
I'm currently reading a book titled “Psychiatric Knowledge and Skills: Mental Healthcare in Okinawa.”
This book, written by a doctor, scientifically and medically unravels the relationship between mental healthcare in Okinawa Prefecture, where I live, and the yuta—shamans who are still active today.
Due to certain circumstances, I haven't studied much of Japan's modern history, so learning about Okinawa for the first time has been a series of surprises right from the preface.
The content requires careful digestion, so I won't write about it today.
In a 1998 photo of Ikaifu conversing with a patient after treatment, there are two fans in one room.
They're directing airflow at the patient from two directions.
Since Okinawa places two fans per room, I thought everyone outside Okinawa should adopt this practice, especially in modern Japan where temperatures keep rising.
Until then, I had thought that only Geeks would use one fan plus a personal fan (because PCs generate heat), but when I saw the photo, I was struck by inspiration.
Starting this year, I will use two fans in each room.
Actually, the photo above was taken with the book cover removed.
The reason is that when the book cover came off by accident, the design underneath appeared, and I liked the evergreen design so much that I decided to use it.
I thought that the design intention of the author, Professor Chikara Ogura, was probably this college-style design.
The original book cover design isn't bad, but the message that the book cover design conveys to the viewer is:
“This is very difficult, and it is written about the suffering of Okinawa that everyone knows about.”
In contrast, the design photographed under the cover is unified with a collegiate, evergreen design, and the English words “Knowledge and Arts of Psychiatry” are placed on the cover.
Since I cannot reproduce the font used in the photo, I think the author wants to convey the same impression that everyone gets from this font and font design through the contents of this book.
“Knowledge and Arts Of Psychiatry”
It is a message of science and intelligence.
Design messages are so important that “Knowledge and Arts of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Care in Okinawa” not only mentions installing two electric fans in one room, but also records the surprising fact that Okinawa has been a leading place in medical technology since the Ryukyu Kingdom era, performing surgeries using anesthesia more than 100 years before Japan.
Book design, with its inherent message, also plays a vital role in accurately conveying the book's content and capturing the interest of those who encounter it online or in bookstores.
This book, written by a doctor, scientifically and medically unravels the relationship between mental healthcare in Okinawa Prefecture, where I live, and the yuta—shamans who are still active today.
Due to certain circumstances, I haven't studied much of Japan's modern history, so learning about Okinawa for the first time has been a series of surprises right from the preface.
The content requires careful digestion, so I won't write about it today.
In a 1998 photo of Ikaifu conversing with a patient after treatment, there are two fans in one room.
They're directing airflow at the patient from two directions.
Since Okinawa places two fans per room, I thought everyone outside Okinawa should adopt this practice, especially in modern Japan where temperatures keep rising.
Until then, I had thought that only Geeks would use one fan plus a personal fan (because PCs generate heat), but when I saw the photo, I was struck by inspiration.
Starting this year, I will use two fans in each room.
Actually, the photo above was taken with the book cover removed.
The reason is that when the book cover came off by accident, the design underneath appeared, and I liked the evergreen design so much that I decided to use it.
I thought that the design intention of the author, Professor Chikara Ogura, was probably this college-style design.
The original book cover design isn't bad, but the message that the book cover design conveys to the viewer is:
“This is very difficult, and it is written about the suffering of Okinawa that everyone knows about.”
In contrast, the design photographed under the cover is unified with a collegiate, evergreen design, and the English words “Knowledge and Arts of Psychiatry” are placed on the cover.
Since I cannot reproduce the font used in the photo, I think the author wants to convey the same impression that everyone gets from this font and font design through the contents of this book.
“Knowledge and Arts Of Psychiatry”
It is a message of science and intelligence.
Design messages are so important that “Knowledge and Arts of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Care in Okinawa” not only mentions installing two electric fans in one room, but also records the surprising fact that Okinawa has been a leading place in medical technology since the Ryukyu Kingdom era, performing surgeries using anesthesia more than 100 years before Japan.
Book design, with its inherent message, also plays a vital role in accurately conveying the book's content and capturing the interest of those who encounter it online or in bookstores.
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The photo shows a variety called “Green Goddess.”
It is very beautiful, and even though we are meeting for the first time, I feel an intelligence and sophistication reminiscent of someone I spent my youth with, so long ago that no one remembers.
That concludes “The Fresh Green of Youth in Bloom.”
20260223 23:05 Added text.
20260223 23:25 Added text.
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