My friends and I went to “Takeda shrine” the other day. It is a popular shrine in Yamanashi and by my university. First of all, we went to the building that “Noh” play is done. It was built just now so Noh play was not done that day. It is a Japanese famous traditional play. You may not know about it and I also don’t know about it well. I have never seen it. Maybe I think Noh play looks like our figure of a second picture.
Next, we cleansed our hands and mouths with special water. Then we each put some money in an offertory box and pray to the God. Anyway, I prayed for our health and my new job would be better.
We each bought “Omikuji” at about 2 dollars. In Omikuji, our fortune is written and the fortune is divided into six levels. Fortunately, my fortune was the greatest level “大吉” and it said. “All you do is going well so you should have faith in yourself.”
Today is a coming-of-age celebration in Japan. Some people who are 20 years old were wearing “Kimono”. Recently many people seemed to become to wear business suits simply. By the way, I wore “Kimono” of my cousin’s hand-me-downs 4 years ago.
However, today was nothing but a normal holiday for me. I went to a habitual skiing ground with my friends. There were so many items like boxes, rails and kickers. I challenged them trusting myself. As a result, I hit my chin against the ground. It was so hard because it froze. My chin was skinned. The wound smarts.
Don’t be too confident of myself! It was today’s lesson.
Earthwatch Japan asked me to let them use my DVD of Kenya. It seems to be used to make the VTR to explain the activities of Earthwatch Japan and the VTR seems to be telecasted by 25 Japanese TV stations. Of course, I told yes but I don’t know the length of the VTR maybe several tens seconds or several minutes? Which part of Kenyan DVD do you think will be telecasted? I expect measuring trees will be telecasted.
3 comments:
Wow, Shizuo's DVD on TV! Very good!
I like reading about your culture. Today I heard on TV that it was "coming of age" day in Japan so I'm glad you wrote about it.
It celebrates when a person is 20 years old?
Kids here celebrate when they become 21 because that is the legal drinking age in most states!
Is there a legal drinking age in Japan?
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In Japan, the legal drinking age is 20 so it celebrates when a parson is 20 years old.
I worry about American TV about Japanese coming-of-age celebration.
What did they say? Is it good news or bad news?
In Japan, some TV programs telecast about bad conduct of Japanese young people.
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