Kuwabara Kuwabara
After I got married in the UK, I needed to take the Life in the UK test as a part of my application for Indefinite leave to Remain (ILR). My husband and my friend who used to be a school teacher helped me. She gave her knowledge on a wide variety of subjects. And she mentioned 'touch wood' in order to prevent a confident statement from bringing bad luck. I thought about it in Japanese, and found 'kuwabara-kuwabara' . Kuwabara means a mulberry field, and it came from Sugawara no Michizane (845-903). He was a scholar, poet and politician, who was born into a family of scholars. He was especially good at Kanshi ; the Japanese poetry written in Chinese. He was a genius and a serious man, and passed the entrance examination to the national academy. After graduation he began his career in the court as a scholar, built his career, and served the Emperor as a trusted Minister of the Right. But he fell into disfavour by his rival and was exiled to Dazaifu, Kyushu, and died at
