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japanese summer

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:45:23 +0900

Hanabi

I want to talk about Japanese summer today.

Although there are a lot of event in japan this season, I introduce花火*(hanabi) to you this time.

Hanabi always rise somewhere in summer.

Most famous hanabi convention is 隅田川花火大会(sumida river firework convention).

although I never went to seeing it, I hear it is very gorgeous.

My favorite hanabi convention is tokyo bay's one and yokohama's one.

Especially, yokohama’s one is great!

I love it very much.^^

Tokyo bay hanabi 1

Tokyo bay hanabi 2

Yokohama hanabi

Yokohama hanabi2

And when we watch hanabi, we sometimes wear
浴衣（yukata）.

We wear this clothes, when we go to hanabi convention or 祭り(matsuri).

We rarely wear it usually.

There are traditionally a lot of floral prints of the pattern in this clothes.

We Japanese like flower very much.

We often names the name of the flower to woman's name.

Yukata

Yukata couple

If you come to japan ,you should watch “hana” and wear “hana”.

And these picture is from internet.

*
花火　means fireworks

花(hana) is kanji that means flower.

火(bi) is kanji that means fire.

Therefore, if we translate fireworks literally into English, it is shown “flower fire”.

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new shoes

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:07:40 +0900

Now,summer has come in japan….

The temperature is aroud 30 degrees recently.

Anyway,i bought new good shoes.

The shoes made of straw

The reason why I bought this shoes is that it is thought that it suit to my

ethnic clothes*.

And the shoes is little strange.

Because the shoes are made of straw.

the wind can pass into straw.

So it make me feel that it is a little cool.(it is really little though^^;)

Although it is little cool, there is one problem.

The water can pass into straw too. (ToT)

So I cannot put on this shoes on the day of rain.

After all, if there is a merit, there is a weak point too.

ethnic clothes*

I don’t know this English expression is right^^;

If you know more appropriate English expression, please tell me…

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busy....

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:57:51 +0900

i dont write any article of japan this month so far(ToT)

because i was busy. /(^ o ^)\ <oh my god!

but i know this is just an excuse....

i definitely want to write articles over two times next month.

if you have the thing that you want to know,tell me about it.

if i can write it,i want to try to write about it ^ ^

byebye~

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IZAKAYA

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:18:11 +0900

G243622w[1]

Most japanese goes to the IZAKAYA when spending it with the friend at free time.

About 4000 yen is used once,depend on people though.

Izakaya2

It is difficult for me to explain IZAKAYA in english.

this is the place where drink is mainly drunk with japanese food.

And it is not the open like the bar.

There is like partition in each seat and the guests rarely speak with other guest.

But we sometimes chat to the clerk.

Actually,when I was university student, I worked as part-time job at IZAKAYA too.

Most guests are very cheerful because they drinks.but basically the clerks are really busy.

Izakaya3

Therefore when it is a little late to be served of the dish, I think the clerk is busy today and sympathize them.

I talk with the friends for about two-four hours in the IZAKAYA most holidays.

My friends’s house and mine are away, so we often go to the shop in Shinjuku and everytime the shop to which we go is different.

Because Shinjuku is a large downtown of Tokyo and the terminal station that have various lines,so the access is easy for us.

And there are a lot of shops that we choose.

Izakaya4

Here,we talk about our work,love,and other new things.

We go to KARAOKE after that.

It is called NIZI-KAI.

This is one type of the play that japanese do.

Izakaya near tokyo tower1

picture from

http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g243621/

and other

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my favorite spring style！

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:32:03 +0900

I talked about some japanese fashion.

so I introduce my favorite spring style to you(ー3ー)v

summer is soon though…..

My favorite spring style

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NewShibuya新渋谷

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:21:43 +0900

Shibuya_tokyo(past shibuya from wiki)

I went to Shibuya on last Sunday for my job’s contract.

It was after a long separation.

And when I walked on this city, I was aware of something.

First, the ratios that adults occupy increased.

Shibuya was the city for teenager especially

who like western life style .

For exsample, most of them like Club,Sexy Clothes,HIPHOP etc…..

The girls were called GYARU or Shibuya-kei.

They prefer beautiful and sexy to cute.

Center_Gai-dusk-20071001(from wiki)

New shibuya station

Second, The small-scale renewal of the station began.

So around Shibuya station and itself is little busy.

It include new stastion construction.

It named New Shibuya Stastion.

And this station was design like spceship.

I like modern building, so when it is completed, I want to go to watch it^ ^

I guess Shibuya is becoming the town for adults more.

Although It was busy for me, new Shibuya becomes the town which is more interesting than the past now, at least for me of over teens :P

Recently shibuya

Pictures

from

http://www.shibukei.com/headline/5185/

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%8B%E8%B0%B7

,mine and etc

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restart!

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:53:21 +0900

I start new schedule on April.

Many changes occur at this time here.

For example, in japan, all schools start on April.

My change is mainly the work time.

It starts later and finish later.

But I wished for it.

And my changes became calm recently.

So I want to restart my blog. ^ ^

I want to write article over twicet a month.

And ,I have something to say.

I prefer the city to the country in japan.

Although there are many reason, the main one is because I like changing, and I am differ from many people in the image for the future.

That is mean I don’t think the future is pessimistic.

So I almost write about the city in japan.

I want you to enjoy and correst my poor English sentence.^ ^;

Please~

Thank you for reading my article^ ^

Byebye~

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浅草（asakusa）

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:31:11 +0900

大きな提灯big japanese lantern　

芸者geisha

maybe,they are actresses on stage.

so cute^ ^

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水都を目指す動きについて(About movement to make the water city)

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:47:55 +0900

ほたるまちのイメージ(Hotaru machi's image)

阪大病院跡地再開発の街区名が「ほたるまち」に決定というニュースが２００８年３月４日にあった（梅田経済新聞）。

There was the news that the block name of redeveloped Osaka university hospital’s site was decided March 4, 2008（Umeda economic paper）.

The name is Hotaru Machi.*1

この阪大病院跡地再開発の街区がある都市は、東京に次ぐ日本で第二位の都市大阪である。

東京もそうだが、大阪はかつて「水都」と呼ばれ、町中に川が流れる美しい町であった。

There is Osaka university hospital’s site in Osaka of the second biggest city next to Tokyo.

Osaka was ever called “the water city”, Tokyo is so, too.

It was the beautiful town which the river flowed through to the downtown.

江戸両国橋夕涼花火之図(hanabi in ryogoku,Tokyo )

川口遊里図屏風(picture’s title, place is in kisarazu river,osaka)

近年こうした水都復活の動きが、大阪と東京で議論されている。

この「ほたるまち」は、この議論が具体化された一部のものである。

In late years, there are the movements of such water city revival in Osaka and Tokyo, and it is argued.

This " Hotaru Machi " is somethings that this argument was realized.

個人的な見解としては、水都復活の動きはとてもうれしい。

私は東京の近くに住んでいるが、東京にも綺麗な景観とは言えない場所がいくつもある。

それに比べると大阪は、大阪城と高層ビル群がマッチした東京に比べ綺麗な町並みを全体的に形成している。

In my opinion, the movement of the water city revival is very nice.

Although I live in the city next to Tokyo, I thought there are many places which are not beautiful landscape in Tokyo.

In comparison with it, Osaka forms beautiful row of the skyscrapers which matched Osaka Castle along a city street generally in comparison with Tokyo.

こうした大阪の動きに刺激され、東京こそ具体的な再開発案をどんどん出してほしい。

I hope Tokyo is stimulated by such movement of Osaka, and announce the plan of the redevelopment steadily

*1 Hotaru= firefly , machi=city

「きらびやかな光ではなく、ほたるのようなやさしい光で川を照らす街になってほしい」との思いで道面宜久氏（コピーライター）により名付けられた。

It was named by Norihisa Domen, who is copywriter.

He put a wish that "I wanted it to be the city which lighted up the river by easy light such as the firefly not gorgeous light" to this city.

Picture and detail is from

・http://umeda.keizai.biz/headline/168/

・川口遊里図屏風(picture’s title,place is in kisarazu river,osaka)

・江戸両国橋夕涼花火之図(hanabi in ryogoku,Tokyo )

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nice to meet you!

nobody@vox.com(city-monkey) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:09:56 +0900

nice to meet you!

first,i have a thing that i want to tell you.

and if you find strange english expression and japanese( i use japanese,when i cant explain thing) on my blog.

please teach me about it!

thanks!

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