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Japanese Haiku - Fukiko Yasunaga

Today, I read the newspaper and it introduced a haiku (japanese poem) with a essay. This haiku was "桜餅の粒実ふふめば哀れなり口中に凛々(りり)とかすむくれなゐ". In this article, サクランボ(桜桃)(a cherry) is introduced in the begining with the episode that it was sent by delivery service and depicted the story of eating it, and finally this poem was introduced. This poem was composed by Fukiko Yasunaga (安永蕗子) who I didn't know, but I liked this poem because this sound of words is very beautiful. This authoress was born in 1920 at Kumamoto-pref. and she got the several prizes, one of which was " 迢空(ちょう・くう)賞" which is the best prize of haiku, so that's why I was moved. (Nikkei newspaper evening edition, June 21 2008) Related link; Google(安永蕗子) 、 asahi.com

onomatopee (onomatopoeia) (オノマトペ)

Last week when I read the newspaper, I found this word. This article introduce the book of japanese singer "hitoto You" who make the lyrics using the method of onomatopee. Indeed her song is unique so I was intrested in her song. I check out the word オノマトペ(onomatopee) and found that it is very deep and intresting. http://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8E%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E3%83%9A&rls=com.microsoft:ja&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 . Recently I am curious about how the children can get the word or language. At first children can pronounce the word like onomatopee, then sometimes suddenly he can get the exact word, so word and onomatopee have relationship.

Our new family !

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He is our new family and he is our first baby! He was born on 28 May, and this Wednesday he came our home from hospital and 4 days had passed. He is very very bouncing baby so my wife couldn't sleep well, but we love him very much. He cried very loudly so we tried to ease him in various ways, and this picture is one of ways to be quiet. (this red material is a rattle and if I shake this rattle, he is very curious about it and hear this rattle's sound and sometimes stop crying!)

Goldsmith College, UK

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When I was a graduated student, I went to London and enjoyed summer school at Goldsmith college for about a month, because I wanted to spend good time at that period. Goldsmith college was located near New Cross station and I stayed at dormitory of this college, because at summer time, dormitory was empty due to the summer vacation time. And I happened to watch Flickr yesterday and search the word "New Cross", then found Goldsmith College's & around this area's picture and felt longing for this town. New Cross is located about half an hour from central London by train, so it is very convenient place to go around central London. And this town is not so big (in another saying, feel a little deserted-looking), so I enjoyed the fist experience of abroad in a relaxing mode, so I liked this town very much. If you see this picture , you can see the dormitory(*) where I stayed about 20 years ago, so I am deeply moved. (*) UK's college is started at September, s

Hotel Costes

The CD I rented the other day. I happened  to watch it at  ACTUS  in  Shijo Karasuma before  , and found it when I searched for it in TSUTAYA. →  amazon  ,  http://mp3music.blog7.fc2.com/blog-entry-464.html

Pops

It's intersting to paste YouTube video inside blogs so I searched my favorite Pops and I can find all of them ! But as seen my favorite list below, almost all of them are on late 1980' when I was a college student. -> year 1985  ・Take on me (A-Ha)  ・True (spandau ballet)  ・West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys)  ・Steppin' Out (Joe Jackson)  ・I'm In The Mood For Dancing (The Nolans)  ・I'm not in love (10cc)  ・Breakout (Swingout Sister)  ・Do you really want to hurt me (Culture Club)  ・ Thriller

Rosanjin's universe

  I got a ticket for "Rosanjin's Universe" which is being held at Daimaru Museum KYOTO until March 19th, so I went for a walk. Personally, I didn't expect much, but it was better than I expected.  There were pottery plates and paintings, but I felt that the bamboo folding screen paintings that he casually drew with ink painting were really good because he was a calligrapher.  Also, he seems to have loved Mino ware and Bizen ware, but Bizen ware was impressive with a plate that roughly expressed the redness of the soil.  →  Mainichi Newspapers  ,  Daimaru Museum KYOTO This (  Beauty Hall of Fame exhibition built by Osaka people  ) is an exhibition held at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts last year (December 24th).  I went there because I got a ticket

Musée d'Orsay Exhibition

  Yesterday,  I saw  the  Musée d'Orsay exhibition "19th Century Artists' Paradise"  (  introduced on the Kobe City Museum website  ).  I think the  Kobe City Museum  is the  first in two years since  the  Vermeer exhibition  . I happened  to see the  "Maria Theresia and Schönbrunn Palace Exhibition"  at  the  Museum  of  Kyoto the  other day,  and the contents of the exhibition were much more fulfilling than this.  Some of the famous paintings include "Berthe Morisot with a violet bouquet", which is also on the cover of the pamphlet, Monet Renoir Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin Whistler, and Gustav Morrow. However, personally, the following two works were impressive. Emile Bernard Breton women with parasols Madeleine of Bois Damour (Forest of Love)  Leon Spilliart moonlight and lights  # Related HP

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli Concert-Amore Under the Desert Sky, NHK BS 2 (Sunday, October 8, 2006) A program that was broadcast when I happened to be watching NHK the other day. Not only the beauty of the concert video, but also the songs and singing voice were very wonderful.  Looking at the following HP, it is said that this person is blind, but I did not notice it as far as I saw him singing. ⇒Related  HP

Norah Jones

  Norah Jones  was a singer that my wife liked when she saw the Grammy Awards, and she wrote original songs that mixed various musical elements such as blues country. →  Toshiba EMI website

Proms

My first memory about "Proms"  was that when I stayed London for summer school about 1 month, some of  students were talking about Proms.  And recently I happend to watch BBC HP and found that I could hear all program of Proms from here . I recollected my London's memory after 16 years. What I felt at UK,also traveling around EU, was that music is a part of their life so I can hear very beautiful classic music played by young college students with violines, etc. I was deeply moved. As seen this Proms's program, there are of course standard music lineup but also latest ones like world premium of "The Little Mermaid" , so the width of variation makes me surprised.