Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　Huffman and Jeffrey, who are teaching English at St. Luke's International University, participated in a seminar titled "Let's Develop a Global Self" on November 17.

　Under the theme of learning English, he taught me the motivation, reason, and efficacy of learning English. Why do we learn English?

1)Communication, 2) Acquisition of information and knowledge, 3) To enhance cultural skills and sensitivity, 4) to improve work and career.

5)For my hobbies, I taught me that there are various things such as 6) Identity, 7) Relationships, 8) Contribution to Society, 9) Cognitive Function, and 10) Sence of Accomplishment.

9)In the explanation of the Cognitive Functions, the Company explained

"Anti-aging of the brain", "Improve cognitive ability comprehensively", "Improve intelligence, memory, and concentration", "Improve the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease", "By changing language, I learned that it is effective for training and increasing the neural path between the brain and part.　It's just a good thing.

By all means, I would like to brush up my English and entertain visitors.

It was a very useful lecture.
Thank you very much.

　This year, the "Gathering of International Exchange" by the Chuo-ku Cultural and International Exchange Promotion Association was held on Saturday, November 19 at Tsukiji Education Center. .

　First of all, we finished the reception on the first floor and headed to the cooking class on the 4th floor.

　Spanish omelet, cooked rice, and clear bonito soup stock.

After the meal, Sri Lankan milk tea was very delicious.　People from foreign countries were also smiling.

　On the second floor, hula dance.

Continuing from last year, a flamenco show by Tomoko Ishii flamenco Studios.

And I was taught a beginner flamenco for our beginners. Ole'

I participated in this year's "Marugoto Museum" and conveyed the wonderfulness of flamenco to the general public.　It is said that 70-year-old and 80-year-olds also attend lessons at the great studio. How about you?　I'll try it too.　Click here for the website of the studio.　http://www.tomokoishii.com/

　And Bon festival dance by people from Chuo-ku. Everyone was dancing happily to songs such as "This is the Bon Dance in Edo".

On the same second floor, there was an introduction corner of the sister city of Australia, and everyone was learning with interest.

In addition, there was a corner for playing in Japan where children could enjoy, and laughter was echoing with lucky laughter, quoits, daruma drops, beanbags, etc.

　On the 3rd floor, there is a dressing class for foreigners, ikebana experience, and so on.

Tea ceremony and tea ceremony experience, ink painting, origami, and furoshiki classes were offered.

On the first floor, wadaiko performances were held, and foreigners also played a flute and explained the music in English.　

I realized that deep international exchange is taking place.

At the disaster prevention corner on the 4th floor, there were emergency food tasting corners in the event of a disaster and maps about evacuation site, which were also appreciated by foreigners living in Chuo-ku.

　I would like to express my deep appreciation and respect to the Chuo-ku Cultural and International Exchange Promotion Association, which is held every year.　Thank you very much.

On a sunny Sunday, take a walk along the Sumida River Terrace to reach Toyomi Bridge over the Nihonbashi River.

Toyomi Bridge is a place often used for filming dramas and movies due to its design and beauty of the scenery, but in Yue Hiraiwa's novel "Onjuku Kasemi", around Toyomi Bridge where the Nihonbashi River flows into the Okawa (Sumida River), Okawabata (Okawabata)'s basket "Kasasemi" is set on stage. In the Edo period, Eitai Bridge seemed to be a little upstream from the present, over the north side of the Nihonbashi River, and the location of "Kasemi" was just right above the current Eitai-dori St. (around the star mark on the map).

"When I thought that a sharp cold had hit for only three days, it was early spring, when the water of Okawa suddenly became muddy. 。 。 <Omitted>. 。 。 The mansion of his older brother, who served as the scrutiny of magistrate's office Minamicho, was at a time when the gate was standing. From the time I leave the mansion, I'm going to go somewhere in my heart tonight in Okawabata-machi. When Togo Kanbayashi broke up with his friends, he naturally turned his drunk legs there. A little off the side of Toyomi Bridge, "Onjuku, Kasemi" and a small oriental lamp float in the night fog. It's a moist night with no stars or moon."　

The first episode of "Onjuku Kasemi" "Early Spring Guest" begins in this way. The drama will be developed mainly by Togo Kanbayashi, the main characters Togo and the master of the Hatago "Kasemi" of Okawabata, who is the younger brother of Minamicho magistrate's office and the professors of Kobusho from the skill of swords, and Rui Shoji, a childhood friend of Togo.

The "Kasemi" series has been serialized in "Novel Sunday Mainichi" in 1973, until the latest work "Ise Sanri" in January 2016 (40 books in Bunko: released from Bunshun Bunko) . In Kasemi, a small incident that occurs in the daily lives of the common people, mainly in the downtown area of Edo, is spoken in a short story, and the appeal is that readers can go back in time to Nihonbashi, Hatchobori, Yagenbori, Shinkawa, and Gunshu in the Edo period together with the same perspective as the person being created.　

(The photo shows "Edo Hotel (Tsukiji Hotel Building)":* Public domain)

The novel continues from the Edo period in the mid-19th century to the Meiji era, but the protagonist is also in his mid-20s to mid-50s, and continues to be talked about by changing generations to his daughter's generation. In the Meiji edition, "Shin Onjuku Kasemi", Tsukiji Reservoir began to appear as a stage, A Rokuban Girls' School (the predecessor of Women's Academy), Edo Hotel (Tsukiji Hotel Building: burned down by Ginza Fire), British Virns and Chen Otori, a tailor of Kiyokuni who has a store in Irifune, will also enrich the international colors.

If you are tired of walking around the city in the daytime, why don't you enjoy the history of Chuo-ku from the Edo period to the Meiji period while reading the "Kasemi" series in autumn night?

I often go out of the ward early in the morning on a regular weekend, but today I have no plans and the weather is good, so I decided to walk around the ward after a long absence. From the bus stop in front of Sumitomo Twin Building, go up the slope to Super dike on the Sumida River and walk from Nishizume on Chuo-ohashi Bridge toward Eitai Bridge to enter Shinkawa Park. It's usually time to go to the office, but today it's Sunday, so sometimes jogging or walking dogs go through.

Shinkawa Park is a famous spot for cherry blossoms. Every year from the end of March to the beginning of April, Yoshino cherry tree enjoys beautiful flowers (Blog article on April 7, 2014, "Ohanami Walk from Shinkawa Park to Chuo-ohashi Bridge and Tsukuda Park" /archive/2014/post-1956.html) is quite surprising and surprising. The contrast between the cherry trees that are colored red and the vivid blue of the sky / Sumida River is wonderful.

Of course, Shinkawa Park is a tree-lined path, so you can enjoy a walk while watching the cherry blossom maple, which is not a cherry blossom viewing while looking at the top as the spring cherry blossoms. It is beautiful to see the whole cherry tree maple in a distance, but each of the leaves dyed in crimson gives a sense of dignified beauty.

It is said that the cherry blossoms are beautiful because they fall, but the cherry maple also scatters in the blue sky after entertaining our eyes with beautiful red color. It is recommended that you go to see the cherry blossoms at Shinkawa Park, which is now in full bloom, on a sunny day.

[Shinkawa Park]

Location 1-31-32, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, 104-0033, Japan

　In the middle of November, the morning and evening chills day by day, and the Kiki gradually changes color, and the best time to see it.

This time, we picked up the streets in front of the IBM Hakozaki Building in Nihonbashihakozakicho, where Mobijibafu (also known as the United States Fu) are planted along with Akashicho Ryokudo and Ningyocho-dori (north side of Ningyocho Intersection) in the ward.

Momijibafu has a similar leaf shape to maple, but is a deciduous Takagi of the family Asteraceae native to North America and Central and South America.

The bark is brownish, shallow and longitudinal. The flowering season is around April.

It is a neat tree shape and has a variety of autumn leaves, from green to yellow to yellow to orange to red, so it can be parabled as "seven colors of autumn leaves".

The colors differ one by one depending on the trees, and there is a difference in the degree of autumn leaves among a single tree, creating an autumn outfit like a nishiki woven.

It shows changes in various colors, shines in the sunshine as if competing, adding color.

The fruit of "Iga" with a long handle that remains on the branches after falling leaves is also unique.

　"Super Moon" on the night of November 14, which is talked about for the first time in 68 years since 1948.

A phenomenon in which the moon turning around the earth in an elliptical orbit overlaps with the day closest to the earth and the full moon, and the moon seen from the earth looks larger than usual.

According to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 384,400 km, but on the night of the 14th, it approached about 356,500 km, and the diameter is 1.14 times larger than the full moon on April 22, which was the smallest this year, and the area is 30% larger.

It is said that the distance at the time of approach changes every year due to the gravity of the sun, but the next opportunity to approach this far is 2034.

Although the weather was unfortunate on the day, a large moon that looked enough even before and after the 14th could be seen over the illuminated Toyomi Bridge.

November 15th tonight is 16 nights, not the full moon, but the difference is slight.

There were a lot of clouds and it was soon hazy, but occasionally I was able to enjoy the bright "Super 16 Nights".