CHINO Eiichi and Golden Prague

CHINO Eiichi and Golden Prague

TANAKA Akio
                                

     

C also died early, who had taught me Russian and linguistics. He loved

the old city that had the beautiful towers and bridges.

In C's many works there was the essay "The Moon of Carpathians". He wrote

that the conference was over, departed at Kiev, saw the moon and

churches over the Carpathian Mountains, impetuously went to the west,

passed Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, and at last reached "Golden Prague". Prague, it was his youth itself.

Now I cannot hear his voice telling the various anecdotes on languages,

of which he freely had commanded. By the short heading, a newspaper

reported his death, naming as  "the genius of linguistics".

[References]

• From Distance to Pseudo-Kobayashi Distance / 5 February 2012
• Linguistic Circle of Prague / 13 July - 19 July  2012
• Prague in 1920s, The Linguistic Circle of Prague and Sergej Karcevskij's paper "Du dualisme asymetrique du signe linguistique" / Print, 2012

                                                                  Tokyo
                                                         28 June 2014

2 October 2014 Note added

                                    Sekinan Research Field of Language