Hi, everyone!
It was so strong wind and rain fall last night that almost all cherry blossoms felt down. There were a lot of petals on the ground, getting wet in the rain this morning.
Today is the first day of my kids’ school, and classes are rearranged in the new term. In school, all things become new. My daughters were excited with new teachers, classmates, and textbooks. April might make a fresh start for everyone. I, as a housewife, don’t have to do something new in my daily life, and have only to do my routine work everyday. But as an individual, I’d like to do something that stirs my blood at a time like this. I envy them.
As Peach mentioned before, I also like watching NHK program. My favorite one is the 3kagetsu eigo on the novel Ann of Green Gables. On the program, a famous writer and actress Keiko Matsuzaka are guiding to beautiful areas as tourist spots in Canada. I used to read it (in Japanese) so many times and enjoy Ann’s lovely, dreamy, and fantastic story when I was a school girl. I want my daughters to read it in the near future.
So, see you tomorrow. Good night.
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Hello, Cherry and my dear friends.
It’s April 8th. Do you know that today is Buddha’s birthday (Hanamatsuri)?
In Korea the Buddha’s birthday is a national holiday.
In Japan people seem to pay less attention to Buddha’s birthday.
By the way, beautiful season of cherry blossoms is passing away. Now is the time of raspberry. There are several raspberries growing in my garden. Shape and color of leaves are superb. The fresh young green leaves appear in spring and they'll turn to bright red in fall. Their tiny flowers are pure white. The fruits will be bright red. I cut off branches and enjoed watching marvelous green color in the vase.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello.
Today, I finished reading Meiji no Bunka written by Daikichi Irokawa. He criticizes Masao Maruyama in terms of the tenno system (the emperor system of Japan). He is a historian who researched the Freedom and People's Rights Movement of Japan. He entered into a small village in Kanto and searched for antique documents. He and his students found a draft of Japanese constitution written by ordinary people. With this evidence, he insists that there were bottom-up movements in the Meiji era.
He doesn't ignore Westerner's or Christianity's influence, but he says people had autonomous power which fueled political movement in the early Meiji period. His research method gives me some hints on writing theses.
By the way, I found the name Sugako Kanno at the very end of the book where I found she was executed for anarchism. How crazy the authorities can be! I hope we're living in a better world.
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