Hi, everyone!
These days' clear sky makes us refreshing, don’t we!
I’m happy to hear that you were enjoying wonderful trips to Osaka, gero, or Yaotsu.
I can always enjoy an attractiveness of those places. Thank you!
Last night, DH and I watched a movie, titled ‘Pacchigi, love & peace.’ It is a sequel of ‘Pacchigi,’ which depicted bitter struggles of Koreans with permanent residence in Japan, with a little lovely feeling. There are many sensitive problems between Japanese and Korean people. In Osaka, many so-called ‘zainichi’ people are there and so are some friends of mine, who don’t have the rights to vote now. I feel I am, too, a perpetrator against them. I’d like to learn those issues more.
So, good bye, see you!
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Hi, everyone.
Cherry, I also watched Pacchigi Love and Peace. I learned an unknown sphere in Japan. There are innumerable Prejudice and unreasonable things. They are ugly.
I think hate crime is derived from people insticts. If you have it, you should know it is from instincts which every animal has.
Then, you are human being who can subordinate the instict to reason.
Today, I went to the Miyoshi pond. I saw a woman who reminds me of Alice. There are three people who have the same face in the world. I almost shouted 'Alice' but I recalled in the blog she took her mother to the station. I am relieved to avert from that my hasty judgement would bother the unknown woman.
Hello,friends.
The other day I watched the movie, 'Always 3-chome no Yuhi'on TV, which interested me because one of the actors came to the Kokusai Koryu Kai at Yokiso in Kakuozan on Oct.21 when I attended as a volunteer interpreter.
I didn't remember his name, but I found him in the movie and he played a role of a mailman which was a minor role, but I heard that he sometimes appeared in famous movies, so many students there knew his face and asked him for his autugraph and took pictures with him then.
Anyway I enjoyed the movie very much. I liked Yoshioka Hidetaka and children actors, one of who played a role of Junnosuke was very good. What pure and innocent eyes they had!
I wonder if it was a real story of Yoshiyuki Junnosuke.The boy ,who was abandoned by his mother and became an orphan, had the name of Yoshiyuki Junnosuke and he wrote the story for Boken-ou, boys' magazine. Does anyone know about that?
It was such a sad and heartwarming story that my daughter and I watched crying with tears.
Yes! Autumn sky is so clear and beautiful. HD, DR and I went to Niimi Mankichi Memorial Museum. It was far better than I expected. We can see his handwritten letters including his love letter, a will asking his brother to pay his bill. Among his works I am interested in "The Old Man's Lamp". HD and DR's favorite one is different. The day before I watched a TV program about Niimi Nankichi. Atsuko Asano read aloud "Kitsune-Fox". It was so attractive that I wanted to go there. I bought a picture book "the Snail's Sorrow"because it has so fantastic pictures.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Snail's Sorrow is my most favorite and comforting story I've ever heard. Comforting but it moves me to tears. I don't know why. When Michiko sama told that she always remembered this story, I felt sorry for her imagining how hard her life had been. Comforting. Maybe because we can realize that we're all the same kind, that is, everybody has to carry a heavy load.
Cherry, do your Korean friends usually use Korean names or Japanese ones? Korean people who live in my town do not use Korean names but people know who were Korean. Some Korean people near here own big companies and successful.
Cosmos, I read your comment. Was the event for a kind of festival, or was that a part of regular attraction for tourists?
Azalea, you're right. I was not walking along the Miyoshi pond when you were there. Before 6 o'clock in the morning, I drove to the station and came back home. After having breakfast, I took a bus to the station and went to Nagoya to listen to lectures at a conference. You might remember that at a conference hall of Nagoya university, Japanese and French researchers gave presentations about globalization, gender, and social disparity. Do you remember the announcement made by T san, a tutorial member? Her announcement was about this conference.
The most amazing part of the conference was simultaneous interpretation. There were several interpreters in the booth. We borrowed wireless receivers and hear it if it was necessary. When the French lectures were interpreted, I didn't feel any frustration.
November 5, 2007 0:31 JST
Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
I have a good news to share with you today. Aoyama sensei is going to leave hospital by November 15. Luckily enough, she didn’t need to have any operation. What she’s doing now seems to have a rehabilitation and take a walk every day. This is what Aoyama-sensei’s DH told me when I called him on Sunday morning. I hope she’ll improve her health gradually.
I have visited Ginkakuji Temple, the silver pavilion located in the Eastern edge of Kyoto for the first time with DH last Sunday.
It was build by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth Muromachi Shogunate. It was called the “silver“ pavilion but ironically it did not actually receive its silver-leaf finish because Yoshimasa died before the eight year's completion of the silver pavilion.
As you know, it is called “Jisho-in”, taking after his posthumous name. It made a sharp contrast with Golden Pavilion, which looked gorgeous while Jisho-in looked a very shabby, old villa. However, surrounding garden of Ginkakuji temple was beautiful; if you climb to the observatory point on the hill, you can have a good view of the whole temples and garden. The villa nestled at the foot of the hills and the garden was melted into the natural backdrop.
I prefer Ginkaku Temple to Kinkaku ji because the former had the refined taste of Wabi and sabi.
Surprisingly, incessant visitors came to see this temple; hundreds of people paid 500 yen for admission fees.
We took a walk along “Testugaku no michi”on my way back.
Autumn is best to visit old temples. Good-night.
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