Gateball enthusiastic eraYou can see the record of the day on YouTube.

講師　大髙 俊一郎（おおたか しゅんいちろう　当館学芸員）

Outline of the event

2020年11月21日（土）14時 から 15時30分（予定）zoom配信

事前申し込み制 ： 定員100人（申込先着順）

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Gateball enthusiastic era holding report

Lecturer Shunichiro Otaka The National Hansen's Disease Museum)

We considered the history and significance of gateball activities that have been popular in sanatoriums since the 1980s. He also introduced how he enjoyed playing gateball while facing discrimination, devoting himself to practice to become stronger, the players who made it to the national tournament victory with the strategy as a weapon, and the person who became a bridge between the sanatorium and the community. It is very interesting to think about how to interact with the community, not only from the exchange games in the sanatorium such as baseball, but also from the cases where widespread exchanges were realized by participating in general games in the community.
The lecture will be posted on the official YouTube channel of the The National Hansen's Disease Museum, so please have a look, including a word from the lecturer limited to the archive.
We will continue to deliver museum talks on various themes regarding the Issues related to leprosy, making use of the impressions received from questionnaires.

From the questionnaire

• I didn't know about Hansen's Disease at all, but it was easy to understand discrimination and how to communicate with others by listening to the explanation with the familiar gateball.
• The passion that the residents had for gateball was firmly conveyed. Currently, I am suffering from corona, but I would like to emulate the top athletes and live a life of "working hard while devising each one". Thank you very much.
• I've seen residents play gateball before. I think that there may have been various feelings about the appearance of that gateball, so I would like to hear a little more. The perspective of seeing Hansen's Disease through sports is very fresh.
• Certainly, it's hard to think of a sport in which people with a handicap and those without it compete in the same game. It also made me feel the depth of discrimination. And now that I have mixed feelings about hosting the Olympics and Paralympics, I have reconsidered the great competition and meaning that sports give to people. Thank you.
• It was a very interesting story because I learned a lot for the first time, such as the fact that gateball was actively played at the sanatorium and that there was a strong team that won the national tournament. I felt that because it is a sport that moves people universally, it could play a role in connecting with society outside the sanatorium and in raising awareness of the Issues related to leprosy.
• Up until now, I knew only the literary field as an activity in the sanatorium, so I was able to hear a very interesting story. Even if you don't have a handicap, you won't be able to win the national tournament! It may have been unavoidable at that time, but as a person living in the same country, he believed in the false message from the country and took away the opportunity to participate in society (permanently for some people). I felt that I had to reflect on it. On the other hand, I was saved by the fact that some people worked hard to eliminate prejudice, but I rarely have the opportunity to express my thoughts unless I become a party, but I will not pass on the mistakes to the next generation. I felt that.

… We have received many other answers. Thank you very much.

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