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Special feature on the beach garden with snow makeup

[Yurikamome] January 26, 2012 08:30

 It snowed once or twice a year. I entered the garden at the same time as the opening of the park at 9.

In the same way, there were many people who came to the garden with a camera. My thoughts are the same.

                2012_0124 Snow Nobe Liao Pavilion and Omote Baba Photo 0006.JPG

The pine trees on the right are dotted at the site of Yan Liaokan.

The road on the left is Omote Baba.

During the Edo period, customers turned right at the pine tree of 300 years, passed this Omote Baba, descended from horses and mikoshi at the Garden Office, left the sword at the Garden Office, and saw the garden only with Wakizashi.         

      2012_0124 Photo up to Ochiya 090402 in Nakajima on Snow Day 0029.JPG

It's "Ochiyaya of Nakajima."

It is paired with "Matsu no Ochiyaya".

"Niwaya Ichiyo" Tayoku Ichinoyo ...

As these words imply, buildings and gardens are gardens built with a sense of unity.

Because it is built to match the garden, sitting in the pine Ochiyaya is considered to be height so that you feel like sitting in the garden.

  2012_0124 Ochiya of Snow Pine Photo 0025.JPG

 

2012_0124 Snow Koshindo Shemoba Photo 0044.JPG It's "Koshindo Kamoba".

 The customers from autumn to winter were for falconry.

There is a trace of "Hawk's Ochiya" near here, but after falconry, the soil is large enough to put it in the dirt as it is on the foot.

And he had a fireplace.

    2012_0124 Snow Flower Photo 0037.JPG

  If you look closely, the snow is attached to the branch, but it shines in the blue sky and looks like a flower.

2012_0124 Onteiyama Photo on Snow Day 0002.JPG

 It's "Oteiyama".

Although it is a small mountain, a lot of azaleas are planted in the spring, and it is written that "the mountain was beautiful as if the fire was blowing."

  2012_0124 Snow Tachikanbaki Photo 0063.JPG

It's a Japanese camellia with snow.

It blooms across the road in front of Bairin.

 Petals scatter like mountain chabana without falling in the shape of a flower like a camellia.  It is called Haruyama tea flowers that fall to the ground in the form of flowers like camellia without scattering Harahara and petals even in Yamachahana.

Haruyama tea flowers are located in Higashi-Oen.       

        

 

 

Nihonbashi Karuta Town Tour (100th Anniversary of Bridge) January 17-29

[Yurikamome] January 20, 2012 08:30

"Nihonbashi Karuta" is a "local karuta" born from Nihonbashi.

The Nihonbashi Regional Renaissance 100-Year Planning Committee was created in 2009 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its establishment in order to make more people aware of the culture and history of Nihonbashi.

Reading phrases on the theme of "history", "famous places / historic sites", "culture / cultural people", etc. were collected from all over the country by open call for participants.

Out of a total of 4114 phrases, 47 phrases were selected by the Selection Committee and adopted for "Nihonbashi Karuta".

2012_0119 Karuta Nihonbashi Photo 0012.JPG The beautiful design of the picture card is written by up-and-coming ukiyo-e artist, the sixth generation, and Kunigami Utagawa.

Production supervision is the long-established "Okuno Karuta Store" founded in 1921. ¥3150. - (tax included)   

If you collect 5 "meguri tags" with the Edo atmosphere while walking around the Nihonbashi area and bring them to the choledo Muromachi Information "Nihonbashi Information Center", you can draw a lottery once and have a fun present.  

2012_0119 Karuta Town Walking Photo 0006.JPG"Nihonbashi Karuta" is a "local karuta" born from Nihonbashi.

Let's follow the map and collect "meguri tags".

The "Meguri Card" is "Nihonbashi Karuta" mentioned above.

For example, I came with my grandmother and now I'm going to Mitsukoshi with grandchildren.

        Take the Oomi Edo Balance to Takashimaya

        The bell of Kokumachi makes the night of Edo. 

        To Meijiza, amazake Yokocho Koi no Michi

        Susoroku goes to Kyoto from Nihonbashi      And so on.

 

I received the Tenugui Japan, the 100th anniversary of the bridge "Nihonbashi" in the photo below.

                                      (Is there an empty lottery?)

I got the fifth card at Hotel Kazusaya, but I learned for the first time that Hotel Kazusaya's street was once called Tsunega-dori.

(4-7-15, Nihonbashi-Honmachi, Chuo-ku) 03-3241-1045

I remembered that I dropped the shutter I raised once when I was looking for a ukiyo-e of the shutter by Mr. Kazusaya Hotel for blog post before, to take a picture.

Thank you very much.

 

Lottery venue : "Nihonbashi Guidebook" on the B1F of Coredo Muromachi

Period    : January 17 (Tuesday) - 19 (Sunday)

Inquiries  : 03-6225-2690

The map for the tour bills is located at Coredo Muromachi Nihonbashi Takashimaya Mitsukoshi Main Store Hotel Kazusaya.

   2012_0119 Celebration Meibashi Nihonbashi Photo 0009.JPG

 

 

Shoko Kanazawa Calligraphy Exhibition NHK Taiga drama series's "Taira no Kiyomori"

[Yurikamome] January 12, 2012 08:30

        2012_0111 Shoko Kanazawa and Mother Photo 0027.JPG

 

At Tokai Tokyo Securities, the "Shoko Kanazawa Books Exhibition" is being held at the gallery space on the first floor of the Tokyo Sales Department as a premier art exhibition. It is a 2-minute walk from Nihonbashi Takashimaya to Ginza.

January 7 (Sat)-22 (Sun), 2012 Weekdays 9:00 pm to 6:00 pm

                       Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 11:00 pm to 4:00 pm 

The 26-year-old Shoko Kanazawa's powerful brushstrokes and dynamism characters were fine.

              2012_0111 Photo up to Shoko Kanazawa forehead 090402 Photo 0012.JPG Ryu (Kenryu) Ryu (Kanryu) Dance Ryu (Yakuryu)

 Heiryu (Hiryu)  

There was also a pamphlet explaining the meaning of the characters in the forehead, and it was a fun time to look back on my life and understand the meaning. 

      2012_0111 Hanashi Takejo Makoto 0010.JPGKaichikujo 

This time, Tokai Tokyo Securities provided a wonderful place for the exhibition, and a teacher from Sogetsu-ryu displayed the venue.

At the same time, Shoko wrote "Hanashi Takejo". 

                 

2012_0111 Heavy Cloud Lighting Photo 0009.JPGA heavy cloud mine

This is a work when Shoko was 25 years old.

It seems to have taken the four letters of the many Kanzan poems.  

It's horizontal writing, but it's written from the right.  

       2012_0111 Shoko Kanazawa Front back 2 Photo 0022.JPGOn the screen placed at the back of the venue, many characters of Shoko Kanazawa in the DVD are projected on the DVD.

NHK Taiga drama series's "Taira no Kiyomori" character was also shown on the screen.    

  2012_0111 Shoko Kanazawa TV Taiga drama series Photo 0018.JPG    

                    Sponsorship : Tokai Tokyo Securities Co., Ltd.

                    Sponsorship : Chuo-ku Tourism Association   

              

 

 

Demonstration of Suwa style hawk art Hamarikyu Garden

[Yurikamome] January 6, 2012 08:30

 Falconry is the hunting method of releasing a tamed hawk and catching wild birds and beasts is called falconry or falconry.

It began about 4,000 years ago in Central Asia, passed on China and the Korean Peninsula to Japan around the 4th century.

The brave outdoor sports were favored by you.

Emperors such as Emperor Nintoku and Emperor Ichijo, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Omoie Iemochi, etc.

It is the falconer who teaches hawk for you.

The Edo shogunate and the Meiji government had many falconers, but after the war in Showa, volunteers have inherited falconry techniques.

 

Every year on January 2 and 3, a demonstration of Suwa-style hawk art is held at Hamarikyu Garden.

The tall building behind the falconer is Dentsu Building. Hayabusa is stopped on the skin gloves. This skin gloves are necessary to protect the fist from the sharp claws of the hawk. On the instep side, there was a crest of the Tokugawa family's three-leaf Aoi. Hayabusa has particularly good eyesight in hawks.

This is a demonstration of the technique of catching pigeons released from the roof of the Dentsu Building and releasing them from the ground.

         2011_1227 Takahayabusa and Dentsu Building Photo 67.JPG

 A falcon was released from the rooftop.

On the ground, a falcon swings a pigeon with a thin string. This is called a "hadow".

 I'm looking for him around the sky. In the photo below, you can see the falcon in the direction of the falcon's gaze.

2011_1227 Hayabusa photo at the tip of the falconer's gaze of falconers who do hawks 32.JPG


It's fast at all. Failure is not allowed to fail. I can't fail even if I take a picture. I'm desperate because it's a one-shot game. When he found the pigeon, he descended from the sky to the opposite side.

2011_1227 Falconia Photo 33.JPG

 As we approached, the falconer released a string at an exquisite timing and flew the pigeon. Soon after, he caught a pigeon in the air and descended to the ground.  I began to squeak my wings to eat right away.  At this time, the falcon approached quickly and replaced another lean bird meat that had been prepared in advance with a pigeon.

If you just pick up the prey caught on the corner, you will not be able to work.

2011_1227 Instruction of Hayabusa Photo 39.JPG

Hayabusa, who stopped on the falconer's fist and ate plenty of lean bird meat, seemed satisfied.

2011_1227 Hayabusa Eating Hawks Meat Photo 55.JPG

 He was covered with a blindfold mask made in a perfect shape on the head of the falcon, so that he could not see anything so that he could calm his mind and not surprise him in the darkness, tilted his head for a while and turned around right and left.  It was a cute gesture that seemed to be holding my ears to see the surroundings. 2011_1227 Hayabusa photo covered with a hawk blindfold Photo 84.JPG The fact that you can't see anything is to calm down without any extra stimulation.

This mask had even a golden crown. You can clearly see that you are taking care of the falconus.



In addition to the falconry, there is northern goshawk. young bird has vertical stripes on the chest, but adult bird for more than a year replaces vivid black and white horizontal stripes.

2011_1227 Beautiful northern goshawk with stripes on the chest 93.JPG

 In addition, there is a fearless hawk called Harris Hawk imported from foreign countries. In the same way, "transfer" (a technique of moving back and forth between falconers) and "migrating" (a technique of attracting hawks on trees to fists) are also prepared. 

2011_1227 Harris Hawk from Hawk is also active Photo 88.JPG


 

 
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