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KONO OMOCHA, NANIKA SHITTEIMASUKA?
Do you know this toy?
My husband bought it for a child the other day.
This is made by plastic, and a neck and the both legs of this doll move.
The neck moves slowly right and left, and both feet wander around according to
the movement of the neck. YURA YURA YUREMASU.
Power comes from a black, square solar panel.
When I put it by the window where the sunlight comes in, the day when the weather
is good keeps moving waveringly by  the power of the sun.　　
The speed of the movement of the doll changes by strength of the sunlight.
People are healed only by peacefully looking at this movement.
KONO OMOCHA HA, HONOBONO "IYASHI GUZZU"DESU.
This is heart-warming 'Healing goods'
He pretended that this was for a child and bought it, but would he be tired that much?
IE IE (Nope))), he would be surely attracted by solar panel.
WATASHITACHI GA CHIISAIKOROHA, KONNA OMOCHA ARIMASENDESHITA.
Because when we were small, there was not such toy.

TATOEBA, (For example), he played with these toys when he was little.



It is TOMICA born as the first real domestic minicar in Japan in 1970.
75% of the boy of six years or less who lives in Japan seems to have the minicar
of TOMICA.
SUGOI DESHO!!
From an old excellent car to a domestic car running on the general way now.
Or there are a lot of kinds such as the truck series or the fire engine series.
The most of a family having a boy have this toy.
The Japanese male reader reading this blog will surely say.
"ORE MO TAKUSAN MOTTEITAKEREDO...
ITTAI DOKONI SHIMATTANO DAROU...?"
"Oh! I played this toy, too.
Though I used to have a lot of these toys.
Where did I put it?"
CHINAMI NI, (By the way), a white car in front side is
my most favorite car NSX-R of HONDA
There is comfortable heaviness when I have this toy in
my hand because this toy is made of metal.
The moving parts such as suspensions and doors are made in all cars.
The real design which reduced a genuine car to about 1/60 is also good.
The child learns the name of the car precisely. APPARE!!
The earnest posture for this toy of the maker might be
 the secret of the longtime seller

IPPOU (On the other hand), this is my 3 year-old daughter's favorite toy.


Sanrio My melody Dresser
And, the going out bag

KAIGAI DEMO Sanrio HA YUUMEI NI NARIMASHITA NE.
Sanrio became very famous abroad.
I think that My Melody is prettier than Hello Kitty for me.
Because there are a lot of overseas Sanrio fans Let's fully talk some other time again.
MATA KONDO TAPPURI OHANASHI SHIMASHOU!!

A toy, a toy, a toy,
OMOCHA, OMOCHA, OMOCHA
Toys increase when you have a child.
KODOMO GA IRU TO , OMOCHA GA FUERU~!!
What kind of toy did you play?
DONNA OMOCHA DE ASONDE IMASHITAKA?
If you have a child.
What kind of toy does your child like now?
OKOSAN GA IRUKATA HA,
OKOSAN HA IMA DONNA OMOCHA GA SUKI DESU KA?

My 3 years old daughter was pleased with such a thing
till she noticed the existence of the toy.  (When she was around 1 year-old?!)
KONNA OMOCHA DE YOROKONDE IMASHITAYO

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SA-TE ZENKAI NO TSUZUKI DESU. (Okay. It is the continuance of the story.)
I had a lot of comment from the foreign countries when I wrote it
about Japanese common sense. DOUMO ARIGATOU!!
Overseas people seem to want to know more about a daily thing of Japan.
SOKODE!! (So) I have begun with such a photograph this time.
Where of my home is this button attached?
...Japanese doesn't need to think.
NIHONJIN NO MINASAN HA KANGAENAKUTEMO WAKARIMASUNE.
And the overseas people please　look at the illustration on the button.
BOTAN NO UENO IRASUTO WO MITE KUDASAI.
Yep.(SOUDESU)　It is a picture of OSHIRI (hips).
This is a button in the rest room of my home.

Things what you can do with this button is...

1. Front and Rear Washing. (We call it Washlet in Japan.)

2. Heated Seat with Temperature Control.
TOTTEMO ATATAKAI DESU.(It's warm and nice in the winter.)

3. Auto Flush Activated by Sensors or the Simple Touch of a Button.

4. Automatic Open and Close Lid Activated by Sensors, and so on.

SHIKAMO!! (Moreover), because 3 and 4 are set automatically, hands-free flushing system and a sensor-activated lid that automatically lifts as you approach the toilet  and lowers as you walk away. SUBARASHII It's awesome!!
SARANI!! (Furthermore), there is no flash tank in the restroom. It is installed inside of wall.BIKKURI DESUNE.(Surprise!!)
CHOTTO MATTE KUDASAI!!
(Wow!! Wait a minutes.)
"I don't understand. What is it?"
"NANIGA NANDAKA WAKARIMASEN."
The person who does not know a Japanese restroom may think so.
Then I explain it with the photograph of the restroom article maker.



MAZUHA (First of all), front and Rear Washing.

A nozzle comes out like this, and warm water comes out of there.
This is a function that is installed to the rest room at most homes in Japan.

This is installed in most public places, too. SU-PA- MA-KETTO (The supermarket), BYOUIN (the hospital), and HOTERU (the hotel),NADONADO (etc).



The recent Japanese seems to think it is not clean enough only by having wiped bottom part with toilet paper.OSHIRI WO FUKU DAKEDEHA KIMOCHI GA WARUI DESU.


The automatic open and  close lid is like this.→→→→→→→

I will be surprised without knowing this function if I stand in front of a restroom.
I say
"DAREDA!! (Who is it)?"
and may look back.
When you have seat heater in your restroom, if you leave the lid open, thermal efficiency deteriorates, so that this automatic Open and Close lid saves the energy.(SHOU ENE DESU.)
(Maybe, we should not use an electric power so much for the rest room from the　beginning?! HA-HA-HA!!)

SOU SOU KONNA MONO MO ARIMASUYO.
(We also have things like this, too.)

The most of the Japanese woman, it seems not to want to be heard a sound in a public restroom.
HOTONDO NO NIHONJIN JOSEI HA TOIRE DE OTO WO KIKARERU NOHA HAZUKASHII NODE IYA DESU.
If you push this button you will hear a sound that water flows.

OMIZU GA MOTTAI NAI NODE, OTO DAKE DESU.
(Because you must not waste water, the water does not flow only by a sound.)
For a KEPPEKI SHOU NO JOSEI (cleanly woman) who do not want to touch the button by hand, 　there is a sensor and you will hear the sound by　shading the black place with a hand.

This device is called "OTOHIME (Princess sound)".
And I heard that it's been stored up in Museum of Modern Art MOMA of New York.
WARATTEHA IKEMASEN, HONTOU NANDESU. Don't laugh, it is true.

DOUDESU (See)?  BOTAN DARAKE (Many many buttons).
I got a comment from a person who have the plan of the trip in Japan.
I am anxious whether the person can manage a Japanese restroom. SHINPAI DESU.
DEMO DAIJOUBU!! (But it's gonna be all right!)
If you read this blog.
ZEHI TANOSHINDE KUDASAI. (Please enjoy it by all means.)

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This is my daughter's OMAMAGOTO KITCHIN (playing house kitchen.)
She uses this habitually for about one year.
She did a SHOUGEKI NO KOKUHAKU (shocking confession) to me yesterday.
She was saying that

"KONO KURUKURU MAWASUNOTTE NANI?"

"What is this one turned round and round?"

"E~!! SHIRANAKATTANOO? (What? Didn't you know?)"
The one turned round and round is a dial that adjusts thermal power.
"How did you do it when you turn on the fire and turn off the fire with your kitchen?"
"KOUYO"  ("I do it in this way." )
She said and pushed it with a finger over a kitchen counter.

NARUHODO NATTOKU!! (Yep, that does make sense.)
A range of my kitchen is like this.

She saw me cooking with pushing the button of the electric range in a kitchen.Blip! Blip!

And, she might have mimicked it.
She has watched only such a range like this since she was born. Even if she does not know the dial of the playing house kitchen, it is no wonder. SHOUGANAI DESU.
WowSmall generation gap

When I look around it in a house...
I see. NARUHODO!!
A dial is MEZURASHII (rare) now in a Japanese house.
In my home, there is such a button on the wall behind the kitchen, too.

Operation buttons of bath and floor heating.
If you push the button "FURO JIDOU (Automatic bath)" even if the kitchen and the bathroom are away.
The hot water automatically enters the bathtub, and it stops it in the just good water temperature and amount of the hot water. It will announce,

"OFURO GA WAKI MASHITA (The bath is heated)" when it is completed it. In the home in recent Japan, it is a device not rare.

Inside of the bath is like this.
The button is here also, and the amount of the hot water and the temperature of the hot water can be adjusted.
Therefore, there is no faucet in the bathtub. OFURO NIHA JAGUCHI GA ARIMASEN.
Personally my favorite button is this green "YOBIDASHI BOTAN  (call)" button.

If I push this button, the announcement "OFURO DE YONDE IMASU (Please come to the bath)"
flows from the operation panel of a kitchen.

...ZANNENNAGARA (Unfortunately),I have no chance to be called by this device.

When I bathe two children, and a child goes out of the bath in turn, I will push the button and call my husband who is in the kitchen.
I don't need to shout from the bath,
"AGARUYO~!! (Bring the towel, kids will get out from the bath!!)"
TOTTEMO BENRI DESU. (It is very convenient.)

Speaking of a BENRI NA BOTAN (convenient button) in the house,
I seem to be surprised of overseas people at Washlet in Japanese restroom.
Overseas people seem to be interested in Washlet very much though
Washlet is ATARIMAE (natural) in Japan.
Because a talk seems to become long,
I make this continuance next OTANOSHIMI (fun)
 
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SATE (Well),
 it is continuation of the trip to Yamanashi.
OMATASE SHIMASHITA YAMANASHI RYOKOU NO TSUZUKIDESU.
Colored carp's (NISHIKIGOI) photograph was taken in the garden of the inn (RYOKAN) where we had stayed.
It is a basic fish in the pond of the Japanese garden (NIHON TEIEN), but it seems to be unusual abroad.

In France, speaking of a carp, it seems to be the image of "the thing to eat".
(TABERU MONO)
I also want you to enjoy seeing the carp and the goldfish like we do,
If the SUSHIand the BONSAIof Japan become popular in foreign countries.

The bait was "wheat-gluten bread of the carp".(KOI NO FU)
The OKAMI SAN (landlady) gave it to my 3 years old daughter.
"While you are at this hotel, please give bait to carps.
Please come to the front desk tomorrow morning and take the bait.
Don't forget to feed the carps. Okay?" She said,
She gave my daughter such a pretty job to do.
TOTTEMO KAWAIRASHII OSHIGOTO WO KURETANODESHITA.

These are quite big,
TOTTEMO OOKIIDESU.
But, Carps make a terrible, large sound, and eat their bait with surprising　swiftness.
PAKU PAKU TO ATTO IUMA NI TABETESHIMAIMASU.
"More! More! "
"MOTTO!, MOTTO!"
The face of an approaching carp is fearfu
TOTTEMO KOWAI DESU.
I felt that carps are making the expression of the will of wanting food strongly, Though they are expressionless. I'm not good at these things.
WATASHI HA KOUIUNO KEKKOU NIGATE DESU.




Carps have approached the land with great force by powerthat seems to land.
MASANI JOURIKU SHISOU DESHITA.
It seems like that I watched a moment of the evolution of the creature that a carp got out of the sea on the land in search of bait.





When she finished giving all the bait,
she was merely staring at the carps of the pond,  without saying
 "No more food for you!!"
 "MOU ESA HA NAINO..."
to the carps.
When I was small, I was the same.
WATASHI MO CHIISAI KORO ONAJI DESHITA.



Next,TSUZUITE,
After all, speaking of autumn of Yamanashi,
AKINO YAMANASHI TO IEBA!!
It is a vineyard　(BUDOU EN).
We drove Katsunuma where the vineyard and winery were scattered.



We did not do the grape picking(BUDOU GARI), but bought a lot of grapes.
The kind called Rosary Bianco which is edible together with skin,
It was very delicious in the texture like the vegetable.(YASAI MITAI DESHITA.)
It was about 1,500 yen(US15.00)  with two very big grape bunches.




←This one is the bread which was made with grape yeast. It was very delicious bread which was baked in a wood-burning kiln made with a stone. 
(We say ISHIGAMA PAN)
Because it smelled soooooo good my child bit before taking a  photograph.   There was only plain bread of this size or two kinds of the raisin in a shop.  Therefore, it only took me 30 seconds till I get out of the shop, I took the bread, I paid money, and I left the shop.
HAYAI DESUNE. 
It was 1,000 yen (about US10.00)each.





People living in the foreign countries look,
Do you know what this is?
KOUIUNO SHITTERU?
It is a signboard in the sightseeing spot.
There is a hole in a signboard.
You put a facein the hole and take a ceremonial photograph.
Mostly a person of the pictures is a person with the connection in that land.
(By the way, these are gods named seven gods of good fortune. SHICHIFUKU JIN )
You can laugh when you fit your face in!



How was the trip to Yamanashi?
YAMANASHI NO TABI HA IKAGADESHITAKA?
There is the place that I want to go in Yamanashi a lot more.
Finally I return to my home and toast it with Yamanashi wine!
KANPAI!!
It is the local wine which I bought in super near the hotel incidentally,
but,　It was so delicious, I should have bought it more.
MOTTO KATTE OKEBA YOKATTA DESU.
I think leaving the place with the feelings of 　"I want to stay here a little bit more!!"
is good when travel

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