2009年10月28日水曜日

It's Time Bat Flying

The Bat was a good-luck symbol of happiness
at one time in Japan.










At Japanese old house, occasionally
I find a bat put on the transom window 
made of wooden panel , on the
paper sliding door and the building decorated
various charms against evil.































Our ancestors liked it as the lucky animal which exterminated the harmful insects of the fields.

Bat is one of the "engimono"
in China because
they bear a lot of children.



Samurai Art
Japanese Sword mountings (Tuba )


Beautiful kimono with Bat motif
is spiffy-looking.

Jolly fellow/ Bat-Samurai
in art prints on the Edo period

歌川 国芳
Utagawa Kuniyoshi


Halloween is celebrated in many countries on October 31st.
Halloween has recently gotten popular in Japan.
It's a fantastic event adults and children enjoy together.

My house where there is a lot to do.

Please enjoy & (;´▽`A`` be careful !
A Playful Thriller Slide

My doggy and Cats appear in it.

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2009年10月21日水曜日

My place to rest in peace

I'm a happy-go-lucky guy.
Even so,
the noisy those fellows are unpleasant.
I will leave here and go for another place.

It is departure from this station.







Beautiful flower !
I follow a path in the sun.











It's a right path
where a flower blooms.








A path changed.
There is a shallow brook.






The course is not wrong.
I will step over a brook carefully.













A white flower, a red fruit
these lucky charm are my guideposts.








The path to high place is dark.
















The sky is dark.

I fear
getting lost

<(゚ロ゚;)>

Fear has a
quick ear.

However, I should be a lucky guy.
I believe myself chose this way.


It is all right. Probably
the adventure shall be almost over.








I hear a slight sound of movement. I utter a low growl.

I hear a voice.

Goma!!

It is my mother
calling my name.


I was not wrong.

And,
I will choose
the course
to my sweet home.



pink madder sky
Fortunately,
my ticket is a round-trip ticket.
I have the cats to get back to.






I get a little souvenir.
Some red peppers and the fruits of the ginkgo.

Now, I am in the place where
my family always protect me.

2009年10月16日金曜日

Memories of this summer


Photos provide enduring memories.


This is the happy scenes of
this
summer on the street
in Yokohama.



We hope to make
many pleasant memories
for the future.


2009年10月11日日曜日

Japanese garden SANKEIEN in Yokohama


Let's put on a hat
for autumn hiking.


We went to enjoy Japanese garden
SANKEIEN GARDEN.
It takes approximately 30minutes by car
from Yokohama Station.

This vast, genuine Japanese garden with an area of 180,000 square meters was built in 1906 by Sankei Hara, who made a fortune through silk trading, and was also known as a dilettante. Rinshunkaku and the three story pagoda (moved from the former Tomyoji temple) in the garden have been designated as national cultural properties. The garden is well known for its plum blossoms in winter, cherry blossoms and azaleas in spring, and the changing colors of leaves in autumn, making it popular among foreign visitors.


We ate a nizakana
(fish boiled with sugar and soy sauce)
rice , miso soup and
pickled vegetables for lunch.

Kumade
Many Japanese restaurants use them

as good luck charms to attract customers.

A lot of large carp open a big mouth.
Please do not be surprised.


video

Natsume's eye color is green.

How about his parents, brothers ?

his Father !

his Mother !

his Brothers

The green eye will be connected
like the necklace of green acorns.















2009年10月2日金曜日

Let's utilize acorn ♪

We picked up a lot of acorns
on the weekend in a park.














I want to utilize acorns happily.

It is difficult for me to make this. (LOL)


I hit on a good idea !

①  I prepare a small bottle.




②  I prepare burrs, leaves, an acorns
of the imitation.

I bought
one set of chestnuts decoration -
100yen≒1 $,
one set of acorn & leaves decoration -
100yen≒1 $.

④ I stick paper clay on the
front of the bottle, and
fit acorns on paper clay.






You can make such

an ornament easily ♪

Appreciate it together.

Let's enjoy the harvest of the autumn !

Rice cooked with chestnuts

Goma met two black doggy in the park.

They were very cute !
Please enjoy my movie.

Weekend for every doggy
U。・ェ・。Uノ彡☆

video

2009年9月26日土曜日

Tokyo bay an hour sightseeing cruise

We watched pictures of
René François Ghislain Magritte

at a recent exhibition.

His picture recalls me to the scenery
which I watched in childhood or
the scenery which I watched in a dream.

Have not you had such a sense ?
The Idol / 1965


It's my Idol image or
visible thought.


The bird flies in the sky of the most famous TV station in Japan.


Is this a image of the TV station ?

It's my daydream.
Natsume at Ginza street.

It's my favorite image.


When on earth can they enjoy being together as a family?

We strolled through Ginza and Tokyo Bay.

The various scenery
which we watched on this day,

we stash away these
in
our depths psychology.

When we watched a certain scenery,
we may have paramnesia.

Please enjoy various scenery !

You can enjoy
Ginza shopping street

Tokyo ba
y an hour sightseeing cruise

by a movie of 5 minutes.


video

BGM : Seascape

I Will Say Goodbye
by The Bill Evans Trio


2009年9月22日火曜日

Chinatown in Yokohama

It is the first day in consecutive holidays.
Moreover, it is very fine today.
Let's go to the Chinatown !

Gates to Chinatown, built based on
the Chinese horoscope, are called Pairo.

Living up to its boast of being one of the biggest Chinatowns
in the world, more than 500 restaurants and groceries etc.
throng here. A unique look of the stores lining the streets,
colored yellow and red, engenders another
exotic atmosphere to Yokohama.















Kantei-byo
One of the heroes in the romance of "The Three Kingdoms" ,
'Kanwu', is enshrined as the God of
Business in this magnificent richly colored temple.
This symbol of Chinatown is beautifully
illuminated at night. Admission charged.


Through the Chinatown

We will go to adjacent
Motomachi shopping street.

In this town,
there are many opportunities
to be able to meet the people
who are shopping with a rare dog.

Today,
My dinner is a steamed meat bun
bought in the Chinatown.

Do you think my big paw resembles
a steamed meat bun ?

All my eye !