Classic music at Japan # 1

Nowadays i like classic music.

before knowing the enjoyment of classic music,
i usually rock music and pops especially japanese.



This is love comedy and it have been serialized in Women's cartoon magazine.
So i was a little embarrased when i browse at Convinence store,
but nowadays i am used to and don't care about it. Because i love this very much!

Anyway before seeing this carton, even though i have some interest about classic music,Every time when i listend classic music, it made me sleepy
because each music is very long and it is hard to understand.

However i thought someday i wanted to understand classic music,
And i have bias that those music is very difficult to understand
because i can't distinguish each music due to long music that some music
has over 60 minutes.

However i understand by reading each music has character and
i was getting understanding that
there is main melody like each pop music has main part of melody.
Beethoven, Chaikovski, Rakhmaninov, Brahms, there are many composer and
they have very good music. There are very good melody that makes me excited very much.

And once i went to live concert of classic music,
i understand each conductor has very high passionate for music
and their performance reminded me of rock musian
who especially is dedicated to music by whole body and soul
like Radio Head and white stiripes and so on.


Nowadays one of my favorite conductor :Gustavo Dudamel from Venezuela

After going live concert, the more i like classic music.
If you have some interest for classic music
i recommend to go live concert.

There is very good chance
Every year in september at Osaka there is music festival
and some peformance is free and even paid concert is cheap.
Please check HP.

Information
OSAKA CLASSIC
From August 30th ~ September 6th
HP --- http://osakaclassic.com/index.php

Vocabulary for my self
have been serialized --- 連載されている
bias　--- 先入観
conductor　---指揮者
by whole body and soul　--- 全身全霊

Japanese Camera culture # 1

Since 2 years, my hobby have been taking photo.

　my camera (Nikon FM2)

When i was in university student and joined exploring club,

some people took picture druring activity by single-lens reflex camera.

I saw their enjoyment with taking photo, so someday i wanted to do that.

But at that time i thought that what should i take

and their camera looks difficulut because it has many button and many mystery numbers.

So i avoid to have camera.

but 2years ago i met one of the books that has many road picture all over the world

and i am involved to see the pictures and i thought i want and could take these kind of picture.

(Mitino tuduki - - - Bernhard M. Schmid)

As soon as seeing this book and i thought i want to take a these kind of photo,

i went to camera shop and bought one digital single lens camera and

signed the photo school in one day.

And then in the school, i met wonderful friends through camera and next year we will hold

camera exhibition in our group.

Information

Photopia (camera school at Osaka)

HP --- http://www.photopia.co.jp/main.htm

Camera school that i went last year.

Good price and you can learn photo from the beginning

and Teacher has very good character.

Vocabulary for my self

button - - - ボタン

single-lens reflex - - -　一眼レンズ

i am involved to - - - ～することに夢中になる

Sport Viewing --- Japanese Baseball

Sport Viewing --- Japanese Baseball

On monday last week, i went to Kosien that is one of most famous bass ball park in japan.

The park is home studiam for HANSHIN TIGERS and i am fun for the team since i was child

and on the date of game they have match with Yomiuri Giants

that is the rival team between each other and both of fun will be crazy about the winning of the match.

Of cource i am the one of the crazy at the date.

Baseball was imported at Meiji era ( 1868 - 1912) from America

and now it become one of the most popular sport in japan.

In every summer at this studiam Japan high school baseball championship will be held

and it is a summer feature that most japanese like.

The championship can be joined only by the team that won in preliminary holding each prefecture.

(In total during the preliminary, over 4200 high school team will be joined from all over japan.)

On this season, my native prefecture have gotten a lot of attention recently

because one of the pitcher have great talent and his ball maximum spped is 152km!

and on last spring championship his team become second place.

The high school team from my native prefecture have never won the baseball champin ship.

So i am really excited about this summer game.

Information

Hanshin Koshien Stadium

HP --- http://www.hanshin.co.jp/koshien/

You can go the stadium by train (The train line name is Hanshin line.)

From 8th of August, high school baseball champinship will be held.

Vocabulary for my self

have gotten a lot of attention recently - - - 注目されている

native prefecture - - - 出身県

high school baseball championship 　- - - 甲子園

Tukuneya(☆☆☆☆） --- Chicken egg rice bowl

Tukuneya (つくね家）　rating ☆☆☆☆　

Restaurant type --- Japanese style

Recomend menu --- Oyako don ( Chicken egg rice bowl)

--- Chicken soup

On saturday last week, after checking the Okazaki shrine, we went to the Oyakodon restaurant.

In kyoto, one of most famouns local food material is checkin.

and i can say egg rice bowl (Oyako don=親子丼 in japanese) is one of the good dish

that you can enjoy the taste.

Oyako don (Chicken egg rice bowl)

Sometimes i made this by myself but this restaurant one is excellent.

Moistured mixed egg and very soft rocal chicken meat.

Suger ( Using suger doesn't always lead to taste sweet.)

and milrin (Japanese seasoning) makes taste deeper.

And also i want to recomment also chicken soup.

i have never drunk such tasty chickdn soup. Looks like pig soup of Noodle

but the taste is not so strong as pig soup but mild.

You can buy only soup at this restaurant.

I defenetley buy this soup in the winter and make NABE that is japanese traditional

way of eating.

outside looking

Map in HP

Map in google map

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.017821,135.772846&spn=0.001048,0.001368&z=19

Wedding photo#1 "Looking ceremony place over"

Today i went to the Okazaki Shirine @ kyoto for looking my friends wedding ceremony place over.

They will hold the ceremony at september

adn on last month i and my wife was asked to take a photo during their ceremony.

In japan people will hold their wedding wide variety of place.

Mainly people will hold their weddding by church style.(even though they are not christian)

Big hotel or wedding company has own weeding hole that is imitated european church

and on the ceremony Christian minister will take part in the ceremony.

Some peple will hold japanese style wedding that is hold in shrine or temple

and my friend choose these style.

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I and my wife had meeting seriously.

We think It is very important job because those photos will be good memory for them during all of their life and if we have some mistake and we can't take good photo, they will loose the good chance

to remember thier happy ceremony.....

So we decided to go taking photo lesson to know how to taking good picture on the wedding ceremony,

and go to the shrine to check the location and envoroment.

Wedding place @ Okazaki Shirine

We couldn't enter the buliding that the wedding ceremony will be held,

so we look over the bulding from outside.

"What's a dark place this place is...."

Actually those area is surrounded by deep nature and quiet

even though road is close. So i think it is good place for wedding.

However due to deep nature, from the camera man's point of viwe,

it is not good place because we can't take enough sunlight to make vivid photo.

Anyway In any bad situation, we have to good job!!