From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

We went to Asahi-beer Ooyamazaki moutain villa museum at 12,Octorber.( Map ) Ooyamazaki is a town of Kyoto-pref. located at the border of Kyoto and Osaka, and it is a small but beautiful town surrounded by the nature. This museum is on the side of a mountain and this is a place where hideyoshi was battled to conquest japan about 500 years ago, but now it is very calm place. There is a slope to the museum. This museum is surrounded by nature and very beautiful. Over there, we can see the museum and it was the mountain villa of a industrialist. This side is a architecture of Tadao Ando made of concrete. At first sight, ando's architecture is normal concrete building but there is a beautiful forum existed and I imagine many things from his architecture, maybe his architecture stimulate our creativity. That's why I like his architecture.

This is summer vacation season, and I took 10 days vacation from August 8(Fri) to 17(Sun) (included Saturday and Sunday). This period was called " Obon " (around August 15). Usually we went to my hometown Shizuoka-pref. to meet my parents and sister&brother's family, but this time we spent Osaka due to our baby.  And August 13, I went to an exibition of painter Amedeo Modigliani at The National Museum of Art, Osaka which is located at nakano-shima (small island and located in a cenral of Osaka-city) . My wife couldn't go there because of nursing a baby(we are nursing a baby by turns.) (See the Map ). At first I took off at Yodoyabashi-sta. which is the starting station of Keihan-train. (Keihan-train is running from central of Osaka to Kyoto and I used this train for going to my office), then walked along the riverside of nakano-shima to the west (where musium is located). Around nakano-shima island, there are many beautiful scenary like this. This island is

  I got a ticket for "Rosanjin's Universe" which is being held at Daimaru Museum KYOTO until March 19th, so I went for a walk. Personally, I didn't expect much, but it was better than I expected.  There were pottery plates and paintings, but I felt that the bamboo folding screen paintings that he casually drew with ink painting were really good because he was a calligrapher.  Also, he seems to have loved Mino ware and Bizen ware, but Bizen ware was impressive with a plate that roughly expressed the redness of the soil.  →  Mainichi Newspapers  ,  Daimaru Museum KYOTO This (  Beauty Hall of Fame exhibition built by Osaka people  ) is an exhibition held at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts last year (December 24th).  I went there because I got a ticket

  Yesterday,  I saw  the  Musée d'Orsay exhibition "19th Century Artists' Paradise"  (  introduced on the Kobe City Museum website  ).  I think the  Kobe City Museum  is the  first in two years since  the  Vermeer exhibition  . I happened  to see the  "Maria Theresia and Schönbrunn Palace Exhibition"  at  the  Museum  of  Kyoto the  other day,  and the contents of the exhibition were much more fulfilling than this.  Some of the famous paintings include "Berthe Morisot with a violet bouquet", which is also on the cover of the pamphlet, Monet Renoir Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin Whistler, and Gustav Morrow. However, personally, the following two works were impressive. Emile Bernard Breton women with parasols Madeleine of Bois Damour (Forest of Love)  Leon Spilliart moonlight and lights  # Related HP