31 century museum in kanazawa

Naoya Hasegawa
長谷川 直哉

This abacus is the second abacus for me when I went into the society after graduation. The first abacus was bought by my parents at my elementary school days, that did not move easily. At that time, there was neither a personal computer nor a calculator. I analyzed the material and calculated with this. I analyzed and judged the correlation, profit and loss. The movement of my finger was slow, I sometimes worked all night long. It is a society that goes out the answer only to input material to the personal computer, and to push the instruction button now. This abacus was my sweats and tears, judgment tool, and warehouse.

算盤

この算盤は、私が社会に出るとき買った2台めのもの。初台めは小学校のとき親が買ってくれたが、動きにくかった。当時パソコンも電卓もなかった。これで、資料まとめ・分析・金銭計算をした。信頼度・相関関係・賃借対照・損益分析などをし判断した。私の指の動きはのろく、度々徹夜作業だった。いまはパソコンに資料を入力し、指示ボタンを押すだけで答えの出る社会だ。この算盤は私の汗涙と判断道具・倉庫だった。