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Soap & Fruit Carving Exhibition (Gallery Ginza)

[Dimini ☆ Cricket] July 31, 2012 14:00

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It is a soap & fruit carving with a history of more than 700 years of Thai royal family.sign03

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With a single carving knife (watermelon and soapsign01), you can create such a work of art.sign01

It's hosted by Atelier Be Free.


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It is being held at Gallery Ginza on Ginza Marronnier Street for three days from July 27 to 29 (when this blog was posted, "Is it held?")

The watermelon was carved by the teacher and students the day before.shine


 

The venue had a good scent of soap.happy01


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The venue was banned from taking pictures, but we received special permission and took pictures.

Atelier Be Free, thank you for your cooperation m(__)m

 

Click here for the website of Atelier Be Free.

 

 

 

Keiko Minami Exhibition Travel by Ship

[Mumin] July 31, 2012 13:30

 Keiko Minami's `` Poetry, Fairy Tales and Prints '', who was a copper plate painter and also studied with Sakae Tsuboi, a writer for a period of time after the war, wrote fairy tales and wrote poems at the museum Musee Yozo Hamaguchi Yamasa collection in Nihonbashikakigaracho. We hold exhibition.   2012・5・12~7・31

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The flashing fantasy and the gaze that wraps gentle things are crystallized in every work.

The title of the exhibition "Ship Journey" is a poem and sketch I wrote on the ship that traveled to France to study copperplate prints in the winter of 1953.
 
In 1964, prints of "Children, Flowers and Dogs" were adopted on UNICEF's calendar.
In 1970, he also dressed as a collection of poems by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, "Utsumuku Youth".
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Access to this museum is near Exit 3 of Suitengumae on the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line and Ningyocho A on the Hibiya Line.
It's an 8-minute walk from Exit 2.
Keiko Minami is the wife of the copper plate painter Yozo Hamaguchi.
 

 

Sumida River Fireworks Festival distant view

[TAKK...] July 31, 2012 08:30

On July 28 (Saturday), the Sumida River Fireworks Festival was held.

This year too, I went to a place near my house where I could see fireworks.

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It's on the Chuo-ohashi Bridge.

I think there are more people than last year.

You can enjoy the combination with the Sky Tree for the time being (the fireworks are small)......)。

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Because the distance from the venue is far, the fireworks are a little small, and it seems that only what has been launched at the first venue due to its positional relationship, but you can enjoy the combination with the Sky Tree and Eitai Bridge, and above all, it is easy to enjoy the festival I was able to enjoy it.

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It is said that the Sumida River Fireworks Festival began when fireworks were launched in Kyoho 18 (1733) at the Water God Festival, praying for the eradication of illness and memorial service for the dead. At this time, pyrotechnician was Yahee, the sixth generation of a key shop in Yokohama, Nihonbashi.

The first generation of Eitai Bridge was a bridge in Genroku 11 (1698), so the position and appearance of the bridge are different, but it was already there at that time.

If you think so, there is something very impressive.

 

 

 

 

"Sumida River Fireworks Festival" from Ryogoku Bridge

[Koedo Itabashi] July 31, 2012 08:30

On July 28, the Sumida River Fireworks Festival, which colors the midsummer night sky in Tokyo, was held.

This year, a way of viewing from the Sky Tree's "Tenbo Deck" has been added.

From the grandstand, from the window of the restaurant, from the rooftop of the building, from the houseboat on the river surface.

From the chartered helicopter, you can also enjoy placing a sheet on a regulated road.

This year there was a place I would like to see.

"I want to see the fireworks from the top of Ryogoku Bridge."

 

It is said that the fireworks festival of the Sumida River began with fireworks at the opening of rivers in both countries during the period of Yoshimune Tokugawa, praying for the memorial service of great famine and plague.

Ryogokubashi is filled with spectators with the shouts of "Keyya" and "Tamaya".

How does the liveliness drawn in many ukiyo-e prints look in the modern era of Heisei?

 

I walked from Ryogoku Station on the JR Sobu Line.

The street in front of Kokugikan is also subject to traffic restrictions, so I was able to use the fan while looking up at the sky with peace of mind.

On the Ryogoku Bridge, one-way traffic and stop are prohibited.

The sound of the fireworks echoes.

Upstream of the river, the smoke after launch is free, and the smell of explosives is transmitted.

It is a moment when expectations and mood are excited.

I saw it.

More than I expected, the overlapping colors, the spherical shape and the flow of spherical light seemed larger.

The Sky Tree shows its presence while changing the color as it collaborates with fireworks.

A houseboat decorated with lanterns, as if it came out of Ukiyo-e, is a first-class excursion that transcends the times.

 

Although it is prohibited to stop, the foot of the person pointing the mobile phone stops in the moment of competing fireworks.

The voices of traffic coordinators and police officers will also increase.

The liquor-burned Ochan wanted to communicate with the guidance person.

Don't say "I'm smart."

In cities, there is a unique way of enjoying themselves.

 

Ryogoku Bridge, which connects both Chuo-ku and Sumida-ku.

During the Edo period, it was a key point for land transportation that connects Musashi and Shimousa.

It is said that Hirokoji in Hashizume was one of Edo's leading downtown areas.

The fact that Ryogoku Bridge was built on the Okawa River (Sumida River), the cornerstone of defense surrounding Edo Castle, was a symbolic thing that Tokugawa shogunate entered a stable period and turned into Bunji politics.

 

My push for Ryogoku Bridge is that the iron bridge on the Sobu Line emerges in a semicircular shape under the light of flower fire.

In the scene where the train passes, you want to release the shutter even if it is not a "shoot iron".

 

Walk through the valley of the building toward the launch venue.

The corners of the building cut off fireworks at sharp angles.

The sound of the fireworks echoing in the building created a lingering sound unique to the city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Land of Rehabilitation of Chinese Medicine

[the end] July 31, 2012 08:30

Monument to the "Place of Rehabilitation of Chinese Medicine"

2-9, Nihonbashihamacho, Chuo-ku ahead

 

In 1874 (1874), the Meiji government promulgated the adoption of Western medicine and established a medical system based on German medicine.

During the Chinese medicine eradication campaign, Juro Takashi Wada, who was a doctor in this area, started to recover.

In 1910 (1910), he spared the cost of clothing and eating and published his own "Iron Shii of the Medical World".

The young doctors inspired by this book will inherit the Chinese medicine reconstruction movement and use both West and Chinese medicine medicine.

 

 

Kachidokibashi and houseboat

[Mr.Chuo-ku] July 30, 2012 08:30

Kachidokibashi, the closest bridge to Tokyo Bay, is located in Chuo-ku, among the bridges spanning the Sumida River flowing through Tokyo Bay. This Kachidokibashi is built between Tsukiji and Kachidoki.

This time, I photographed a houseboat against the background of Kachidokibashi (taken from the Kachidoki side).

 

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From this location, you can see the Tokyo Tower, the skyscrapers in Shiodome, and the Hamarikyu Garden. Photographs are often taken by tourists and those who like cameras. TV dramas and movies are sometimes filmed. There is also the promenade (Sumida River Terrace) along the Sumida River where you can walk and jog.

 

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The night view of Kachidokibashi has been selected as one of the Eight Night Views in Chuo-ku.
=> Chuo-ku Tourism Association website: http://www.chuo-kanko.or.jp/ohako/


 

 

 
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