more than for 30 years

I have been to my home town the other day.
my mother , who is 87 years old this year, lives there alone.
she is very good and powerful.
when i entered into the living room , i noticed an old fan.
it was the fan that i looked at when i was a junior high school student.
wow before 40 yeas ago.
by the way recently in japan we had a problem.
the fan made by sanyo corporation , made more than 30 years ago,
the left pic.
the fan made a lot of troubles, for example the old couple passed away for fire , that was
cause from it. wow my god.
well.......... i wonder my mothers house. i worry .......
but in the other point , i am proud of japanese machine. and japanese technology .

it is working for more than 30 years..................mmmmmmmmm

daimonji

show the bottom six pics . do you know what these are? have you ever seen ?
these are fire on the five mountains in Kyoto.
Kyoto , which was established in 794 by Kanmu emperor, is one of the oldest cities in japan. it has a lot of temples and beautiful gardens.

well these fire ......... for what?

it is the ceremony that we see our ancestor spirits off.
they come back to each home from the heaven in august 13 and go back 16.
it seems this ceremony has been continued from almost 794 .
in those days there were no electricity . all of around us was deep dark, only moon light.
the fire are coming out in dark.
i wonder what ancient Japanese think of then.

where will japanese go ?

my Singapore friend and me chatted the other day. about walking speed. haha
and an escalator too.

he said to me " why do people in Tokyo walk so fast ? and why do Japanese make vacant space when you get on the escalator ?”
surely people in Tokyo walk very quickly.
i guess the walking speed in Tokyo is the fastest in the world.
i wonder how people in the world do.maybe not speedy.

recently we Japanese used to make space on one side to climb the stairs 　when getting on
the escalator. because of busy people. haha.
i don't know when we would do such a behavior though.
when i was child, we didn't do so. we would usually get on and wait for reaching the upstairs.

where do Japanese go so fast ? despite of narrow nation........

this is an old catch copy in public.

i wonder where we go.

maybe go to the death oh my god.

sumida river fireworks festival

on july 28th the famous fireworks festival was taken place at the sumida river.

this picture was taken on the yakatabune in japanese ( yakatabune = the boat with the roof which an old japanese house has.

fireworks look like vain human life.
the prosperity is not eternal, surely goes to ruin.

cherry blossoms and fire works are loved by japanese.
japanese may discover the beauty in the vain.

breath care

i wonder the people that have kissing custom take care of own breath so much.
especial , oral care , for example breath care and teeth care and so on.
i used to see children had the bridge over their teeth on tv in US .
maybe in the countries of having kiss behavior , the oral care is one of the most important things i think. because if their breath are bad smell , when you kiss them your feeling is going to hell. hehehe.

in japan ordinary we have no kiss. so we don't pay　attention extremely.
but when i speak to them, there are some with bad smell breath.
recently young generations do take care of breath. their breath is fresh.
bad is older. specially same age as me. hahahahaha
so i want to take care of oral care without saying you are bad breath.

VERY LONG TIME NO SEE!!

I have been busy for 3 weeks. Why? because I had an another job.

now i have two jobs and am doing them in parallel.

new job is establishing a school for LD or ADHD children.

do you know "LD or ADHD"?

LD is lerning disorder. ADHD is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

have you ever met shuch children?

i didnt know them 5 years ago.

she came to my private school.

when i taught her math, i found that she couldn'd draw a triangle.

she had a normal level intelligence. japanese was good.

but especially math was bad. maybe she was LD.

i didnt know "LD" then, and i thought she was joking and made fun of me.

but she was very serious. i think.

well the times had gone by . and i had a chance to get new job.

it is this job.

english & japanese

do you know what draws down on the paper?

SEA →　　海　（漢字）

can you figure out it?

this is drawn by Japanese woman who writes letters with sumi.
(sumi is made of charcoal)

her name is KUNISHIGE TOMOMI.
nowadays appearing her name in japan.

don't you think eastern and western culture are mixed by her?