From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

I had a event at akashi-city,hyogo-prefecture. And after finishing this event, I walked around akashi-castle park. This day, meteorological agency announced declaration of cherry blossom and this is a good chance to check my new camera. Akashi castle holds two turrets and one turret is opened for visitors for free.  Akashi castle had been orderd constructing in 1618 by the order of 2nd general hidetada, finished in 1620. It had no castle tower, maybe because this was peaceful era.   Going back to my home, I walked around Osaka city. This is Osaka station.

We used canon IXY for about 10 years and recently microphone had occasional troubles. And in January, display was suddenly black-out ! So we decided to buy new one. I like compact camera and want one which has shutter speed/diaphragm function, has large f value(f=1.x), good lense, low price (max 30,000-yen($300) mark) and this is only one that pass this requirement. This was released in 2012 so 6 years has passed. And it is very surprised such old digital camera still be on sail. Latest model M5 prices 110,000-yen but basic optical structure is almost same (I think) so this M1 model is very cost-efficient one. I have analog camera CONTAX T3 and this holds Zwiss T* sonnar 2.8/35 lens which is very sharp lens (I prefer like T2 sonnar2.8/38 lens which shows beautifully  blurred image..) so I like Zwiss. Below is sample photo. Compared with IXY 910 IS, it capture color of air. I like this camera.

The other day, we went to IKEA and found a fantastic clock. It costs 300 yen($2.5) ! Recently we can easily find cheap clock at 100yen shop,but this design is very good. It is rectangle and it has 4 functions,clock,alarm,timer,thermometer. Each function is marked at each side of rectangle. And if we shake this clock and put it on with one function indicator at the top, this function was started, LED lighting with each color related to the function. A sense of product design is wonderful so I immediately buy one. IKEA's product are all very simple design and it is IKEA's philosopy which many people are lured.