名随筆 / もの / 花粉病 / 飛散開始日 / のに

[eeky]

Hello,


1. This is the credit for a piece of text:

徳永 進 「毎日のこと」 （日本の名随筆・別巻４３ 「名医」 作品社）

a) Is 「毎日のこと」 the name of the essay? Could you translate that as "Everyday Things"? "Everyday Life"?

b) Does 名 in 名随筆 mean "well-known"/"renowned"?

c) What does 「名医」 refer to? Is it the name of volume 43? The name of the series? Or could it link with 作品社 and be the name of the publishing company?


2. この地域社会に住む一人一人は、健康な人間が持つ免疫 機構の細胞のようなもだ。

Translation given: "Every person in this community is like a cell in the immune system of a healthy human body."

Is も at the end a typo for もの?


3. Title of an article:

花粉病早めの対策で症状抑制

I'm trying to parse this like:

症状抑制 = control of symptoms ...
で = using/with ...
早めの対策 = early countermeasures

But if that's correct then how does 花粉病 connect grammatically to the rest of the sentence?


4. 都内で連続して花粉が飛び続ける飛散開始日は、一月下 旬から二月上旬と、平年よりも一、二週間早いと見られ 、全国的にも同様になると予想されている。

My best guess: "In the (Tokyo) metropolitan area, the pollen season (this year) has been observed to start in the period 一月下旬 to 二月上旬, one or two weeks earlier than average, and this pattern is expected to be the same over the rest of the country"

a) As well as other things that may be wrong, I cannot exactly understand 連続して花粉が飛び続ける飛散開始日. To me, 飛散開始日 looks like "the day on which (pollen) dispersal begins" and the modifying 花粉が飛び続ける seems to mean "pollen continues to disperse", but I don't know how the two relate.

b) Also, how does 連続して fit in? Is the subject of 連続して the pollen dispersal, or is the phrase more adverbial? How is 連続して saying anything different from 続ける later?


5. 学際的研究を促進するのにカリキュラム改革が不可欠で あることは明らかである。

Translation given: "It should be clear that the curriculum reform is mandatory in order to enhance interdisciplinary research."

Does ～のに in this case have the same meaning as ～のために? With のに, could this alternatively mean "Although (we) are enhancing interdisciplinary research, it is clear that curriculum reform is (nevertheless) mandatory"?

 

[Toritoribe]

1) a)
Yes and the formaer.

b)
It's more likely "good(in quality)".

c)
The first one.

This is an off topic, but 徳永進 is a famous doctor who lives in my city.

2)
Yes, that's right.

3)
花粉病。早めの対策で症状抑制。

4) a)
the day of the start of (pollen) dispersal, which is the day that continuous pollen dispersal begins,

b)
That's "adverbial", as you probably would already know. 花粉が連続して飛び続ける makes sense?

5)
Yes, except that の is not needed after a verb, and the meaning is a bit semantically odd.

 

[eeky]

Thanks Toritoribe

1. In that case, what is 作品社? I mean, to me it looks like "publishing company" or similar, but that seems too generic to be the actual name of a publisher. I would expect some name before 作品社.

3. Is the title also correct Japanese as I wrote it, with no punctuation or particle or anything separating 花粉病 from the rest? Is it a sort of abbreviated style perhaps?

5. Sorry, I am a little confused about which question that answers. I should not put two questions under the same heading. Is your response an answer to the first question only?

 

[undrentide]

作品社 is a publisher, it really exists. (It looks a bit odd to me, too. )
According to their website, the company name came from their pre-war literary magasine's name.
作品社

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
The most common word for "publishing company" is 出版社, so 出版社 is not used as a company name. It should be, for instance, 朝日出版社, as you expected.

3)
Not incorrect, but it's more common to put a space or something.

5)
Sorry, I should have written "Yes and yes". The first half of my reply is for the first question, and the last half is for the second one.