10/10/2008

1. my favorite... song


Today's introduction is Japanese pop music.
She is the singer whom I liked very much this year. She is a singer popular very much now.
I listened to her song and liked it immediately. She who likes 60's sings the song which took in the taste.
I like her passionate, powerful voice.

her song (from you tube)
マニフェスト by Superfly http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=51MWTDYpGp8
愛をこめて花束を     http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc8UNFAXl6k&feature=related
It is the song which I like both

10/09/2008

The village of the straw-thatched houses in Miyama,Kyoto 京都の美山[わらぶきの里:WARABUKInoSATO]

KONNICHIWA!こんにちわ。

I went to Kyoto again last month. I went to the mountain this time.
Kyoto is large unexpectedly.
The town of Kyoto has many temples or Shinto shrines,and it is a famous sightseeing spot. Furthermore, the suburbs of Kyoto have rich nature.
Miyama cultivates soba蕎麦、そば. When flowers of the soba are in full bloom, many people come for sightseeing.

white floweres of soba in full blossom

Traditional straw-thatched houses are left, and the people still live there.
We can see nostalgic scenery that appears in an old story of Japan.
It is scenery in the age when our parents and ancestor lived.However, it make us nostalgic feel ing. I like there.



Dragonflies, and butterflies, frogs, I saw a snake,too. The road changed to asphalt, but many insects appeared on the roadside,now.






An old house and the pair of the car were lovely.



A thing of this red is a mailbox. It is old form.
I can rarely look now if I go to the country or downtown.









10/06/2008

Myoshinji,temple 妙心寺 in Kyoto

After visiting Kinkakuji temple金閣寺, we visited Myoshin-ji Temple妙心寺. I might have come here for the first time. A lot of people will visit Ryoan-ji Temple and Kinkakuji temple.
However, if you have time and physical strength, you should visit Myoshin-ji Temple. Myoshin-ji Temple was very nice.


I visited to see the picture of the dragon龍(RYU) in the ceiling,
The guide guides us to a temple with dragon's ceiling picture 龍の天井絵and old bathroom. However, though a long explanation is Japanese. ...This is a picture of dragon's ceiling. It is drawn large in the ceiling. It was very wonderful.
It is not possible to take a picture of here. This is a picture that takes a picture of the pamphlet.


Myoshinji,temple is wide.
Many small temples builts around a center cathedral伽藍GARAN, and one buddhist temple group is formed




It went to Keishun-in Temple桂春院,one of these.This is ill kept gardens. I will go to the Taizo-in temple退蔵院,when I visit in Myoshin-ji next. The roof tiles are beautiful.










10/05/2008

Kinkaku-ji,temple金閣寺 in Kyoto

We went to Kyoto twice in September.
First of all, we went to see Kinkakuji temple in the beginning of September. It might be about ten years ago that I saw Kinkakuji temple at the end.
I like Ginkakuji,temple銀閣寺 better than Kinkakuji temple金閣寺.
Kinkakuji temple is gorgeous. However, I like WABI,SABIわびさびof Ginkakuji.
Trees were beautiful. It might be more beautiful at the time of colored leaves.
But , though many people visit here and it is crowded.



It is nice to see Kinkakuji temple with the pond as scenery.

The branch of pine is growing up very much.




9/22/2008

Japanese noodles.日本の麺類:Nihonn-no-Mennrui

パスタpasta、蕎麦soba、うどんudon、そうめんsohmen、冷麺reimen、焼きそばyakisoba...
though the noodles which aren't a Japanese one are also included. .

We have various noodles .
For one month of August, children are summer vacations. Therefore mothers are troublesome by the preparation for lunch.
I do not have a child, but I want to make a just simple menu because it is hot.
Thus it is the appearance of noodles麺:MEN(^^)
Perhaps, in all home, the thin noodles そうめんwill be offered to the dining table many times.


素麺:SOMEN  We usually eat the soup putting it. I put the boiled food that was the side dish that had remained the day before. We choose the favorite to be a tool material respectively.

焼きそば:YAKISOBA    fry cabbage ,carrot ,onion,and noodles with sliced pork. And, add the source with these.

冷麺:REIMEN   This is the noodles which are often eaten in summer as well as SOMEN.We pour soy sauce sauce or sesame sauce.

9/21/2008

Fireworks 花火:HANABI

In summer the fireworks events[HANABI-TAIKAI]are held in many places in Japan.
I hate summer, but the firework is one of my pleasure in summer.
We enjoyed fireworks evebts nearby twice in this summer.




It is in the evening of the Kobe port.








Upper firework is the form of the flower. And I think that lower fireworks is the form of the leaf.