October 2009 Archives

A new page;"Miko Dico" is opened as the first anniversary of my blog.

There are a lot of member using my blog for learning foreign languages from long before.

"Miko Dico" is more useful for such people.

You can choose 2 languages from 5 languages, and see these languages at the same time on one screen. 

Cooperators have increased because they agree with my challenge of comunicating with people all over the world.

I think that each language might be a little wrong and different from the native expression, despite they translate hard.

Though it is not perfect, it might be useful for learning languages.

Please have a good time in your usage to feel close foreign languages.

The link banner is on the top right of the screen.

And Miko Dico is scheduled to be enhanced more in the future.

Though I am preparing for every languages, it will take much more time.

I am also making a plan for funny contents.

Coming soon! 

Do you know the eel?

It is the long and slender fish lives in downriver and the lake, and tastes nice.

But I think the region where people eat the eel is limited.

Japanese love(DAISUKI) the eel.

Though there is no doubt that we occasionally eat it.

We have a custom of eating it as a specially nourishing food when we are tired from sweltering heat at the ending of summer or we want to be in good condition. 

And Hamamatsu, if it is said the eel.

If you ask Japanese what place is Hamamatsu, most Japanese would answer Hamamatsu is famous(YU-MEI) for the eel.

The natural(TENNEN NO) eel was captured and it had cooked in old times.

But the number of eels decreases, and it imported(YUNYU SARETA) from foreign countries (KAIGAI)circulates now in Japan.

However aquaculture(YO- SHOKU) is active in Hamamatsu and these eels is shipping outside the prefecture.

In addition, there are a lot of eel restaurants as city that is famous for eating good eels. 

The eel from which ↑ was cooked to such a state is sold when we go to the supermarket. 

Though imported one is bigger, made in Hamamatsu is tightened, not oily but delicious. 

Everyone surely understands the difference if they eat it and compare.

The first picture is a bowl of broiled eel and boiled rice.

I boiled such packed eel after sprinkle Sake over it and put it on boiled rice with pouring its sauce. 

This is the liver(KIMO) of an eel.

Only a lot of livers of the eel is collected and sold.

I don't like this.

But my husband likes this bitter taste.

It is perhaps high nutrition food.

Is it similar to the herbal medicine?

Maybe there is usually sold at the supermarket is only in Hamamatsu.

Altogether speaking of Hamamatsu is the eel.

Japanese sightseers in Hamamatsu are usually go to the Hamana Lake, and eat an eel.

Though I wrote the first blog, the city of office(SHIYAKUSHO) made an ell the sub-mayor.

I think this joke is probably something you won't see anywhere but in Japan. 

This is the character of the eel-dog.

It is a comic character mixed an eel and a dog.

The comic is popular in Japan; 『TENSAI BAKABON』, and written by Fujio Akatsuka.

Though I knew the character since early times, I didn't understand it was a dog.

Does it seem like a cat?

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I saw the golden color(KOGANEIRO) rice field(TAMBO) on the way of the library(TOSHOKAN).
I save the photo(SHASHIN NI OSAME MASHITA) because it is so beautiful.
Rice field(TAMBO)is for making rice plant(INE),
Rice field change the color to Gold at many place in the beginning of October,
and we are waiting for the harvest(SHUUKAKU) season.
It is shone on in light where autumn is clear.
When i saw the scenery(HUUKEI),I stopped and gazes quietly for a while(SHIBARAKU NO AIDA) 
since childwood. The scenery of rice field that seems that it shines.

The brown area on the right of the photo has been cut the rice plant(INE WO KARIMASU).
The green area on the left of the photo is not rice field on this year,
may be it is the rest for the rice field.

The uncle was harvesting rice in the rice field on the other side of the road.
Though the rice plant is cut taking a big tractor in a vast rice field,
In case of rice farm on a small scale
It often cuts it with a small machine as shown in the photograph.

OK!Shall we go down close to him for you?(CHIKAKU MADE ORIMASHOU)
I wonder if taking the photo to understand easily.

I go down under the road now.
This shot is zoom up.
Japan has HAIKU(It is a Japanese fixed form of verse that consists of the syllable of 5･7･5, and the shortest poetry in the world. ) is "The ear of rice grows if I grow and lowers the tip
with heaviness and lowers the head"(MINORUHODO KOUBE WO TARERU INAHO KANA)
It means that the tip lower an ear of rice which grew,
A human being comes to have high character,
Do it for a partner humbly.
So I remind this sentence when i met like a above.

This is drying time after cutting  the rice plant.
They are piled on the mesh table is united the bamboo(TAKE).

To be honesty(JITSU WA),I grow up not in the country(INAKA).
So I have never seen so zoom this one before.
I introduce it for you,but I also discovered(HAKKEN SHIMASHITA).

After that,I pass through work called threshing(DAKKOKU) and the rice cleaning(SEIMAI)
and appear in the market.
Cutting rice plant is starting before 1month at warm areas,
New rice(SHIMMAI) is harvesting on this year already appears in the super market.

And,There is the rice is kind of KOSHIHIKARI is made in TOCHIGIis located in the area of KANTOU(north tokyo).
I buy the rice is not included pesticide if possible.
We eat the rice everyday.

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Oct 3rd is the mid-autumn full moon (CHU-SHU NO MEIGETSU)

There is the custom to view the moon when the moon is beautiful at night in Japan.

The first picture was taken at a plain near my house.

The plant in the photograph forward is the Japanese plume grass.（SUSUKI）

When at the mid-autumn full moon, we mow and bring them home to decollate with offerings.  

In evening,(YU-GATA)

I went to mow the Japanese plume grass with my children.

By the way, we started viewing the moon after the supper(BANGOHAN) at night.

I offered the Japanese plume grass and some round dumplings that the moon can see those.

At the Heian period (a thousand years ago), it was the pleasure for elegance(FU-RYU NA ) adult that they composed the Tanka viewing the moon.

After all, my children asked me to eat round dumplings.

They could not concentrate to do.

Viewing the moon was end at once.

It was in October(JYU-GATSU) last year that I started this blog.

Just one year passed at this time.

「I want a lot of foreign people to visit my page to let them know the average life(HEIKIN NA SEIKATSU) in Japan.」

That was my dream. And the dream came true soon.

Now, the number of visitor amounts to 700 all over the world.

Sometimes it amounts 1000.

The visitor are from France, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Italy, England, USA, Germany, China, Finland, Singapore, India, Hungary...and more.

I can't say because a lot of people visit from all over the world.

Special thanks to everyone!! 

By the way, Hamamatsu is the really average city in Japan.

It is the perfect stage(PITTARI NO BUTAI) for the blog.

Though the culture of Tokyo tends to be sent to the world as for Japan, sometimes I and people living in Hamamatsu might feel that the event in Tokyo like other country.

Hamamatsu have flourishing agriculture also the industries, and not a big city(TOKAI) but also too countryside(INAKA).

I can go to Tokyo or Osaka by bullet train (SHINKANSEN) in an hour and a half; it takes 30 minutes to go to the sea or the mountain by car.

I would like to introduce such Hamamatsu city.

The city has a population(JINKOU) of 82,000.

The gross area(SOUMENSEKI) in the city is about 1500 square kilometers.

(It is the second area in Japan.) 

Hamamatsu prospered as a transportation node in the Edo period because of it located

at the center of Tokaido connected Edo and Kyoto.

Also it is located at the center even if it sees in the entire Japan, in Hamamatsu industry has been full of energy.

I introduced the Hamamatsu castle Ieyasu Tokugawa lived, and the place related him, didn't I?

Actually, there are many famous people(YU-MEIJIN) in Hamamatsu.

Yamaha Torakusu・・・Founder of YAMAHA.

Hamamatsu is the town of musical instruments because of the piano production is top of Japan.  

Koichi Kawai・・・Founder of KAWAI musical instruments.

Sakichi Toyota・・・Founder of TOYOTA

He was born in Hamamatsu. He was an inventor.

TOYOTA based on the automatic weaving that he developed. 

Souichirou Honda・・・Founder of HONDA.

He became the president of HONDA from the garage mechanic in a single lifetime.

Michio Suzuki・・・Founder of SUZUKI.

Only SUZUKI has the headquarters in Hamamatsu now.

Kenjirou Takayanagi・・・Father of the TV.

He is a scientist (KAGAKUSYA)who succeeds for the first time in the world in experimenting on electronic television.

Do you think it is a little amazing??

Though today there is no pioneer spirit that they were actively at that time, I think we have inherited it from them.

There are industry museum and historical museum as a memorial to them.

So, Hamamatsu may be fun for people like such museum.

I will continue introducing interesting places in Hamamatsu with my ordinary life after another.

Please watch over me fondly.

Today's sunset.(YU-YAKE)

Vast sky is also charm of Hamamatsu.    

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