From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

Recently, I am curious about the author "kenichiro mogi"( japanese blog , english-blog ). I knew him but until recently, I am not interested about him and his book ( I know his thema "qualia" by title ). And recently we can see him on TV and he publish many book in a short interval, and his way of thinking and point of view was very interesting to me so I read his books and website. (recently I am stuck on his website) I wonder why I am curious about his book and website, and maybe I am starving for some intellectual things. I found "hideo kobayashi", "hideo noguchi" from his writing and I aloso read the book of " kang sang jung " and he was also influenced by " soseki natume ". Also I read his blog and it refered the website "edge" which I liked, that's strange feeling and also interesting to me.

Recently I often think about what is most important for me, especially when I was tired of working and lost my motivation (for ironing out the differences of opinions and failed). For me, maybe my starting point is the intention to know something new, to do something intersting, to acomplish something by my effort, to be excited! Maybe this is all. (The amount of wage and position is not so important for me if we can live carefully.) Sometimes I was at a loss what I am doing for, for what I want to do. And in such a case, I cooled down my head and ask for myself what I want to do for, then came back to the starting point and recoverd myself.

Okui zome is a japanese ceremony not to eat forever his life. It is usually done 100 days after baby's born, but in our case a little late. It is a ceremony so baby really don't eat (baby pretended to eat ) At first, I didn't know the ceremony but my wife's parents said to my wife that it must be done because my wife and my wife's brother also did it. finished settings. A sea bream. He sat on his grandfather's legs. When he eat, suddenly he cried ! Crying ! ! Crying ! ! ! His grandmother had a black stone and it is also ceremony. Finished ceremony. He might feel safe, maybe.

Maybe this is the first time to going by the baby-car. Before departure. He is relaxing. Trip around near our home. Sleeping ! This is a park near our home. It is a small hill.

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

We went to a Shinto shrine to do a celemony "Omiya mairi", which was done for a happyness and good health of the baby. And fortunately, there are a big shrine " Naritasan Osaka " neay our home, so we did it there. It is usual that this celemony is done at 31 days(for boy) or 30 days(for girl) after baby was born, but in the case of our family, parents was not in a good-condition at that time and furthermore we thought that it was not good for baby to go outside, so we did it at 2 months after he was born. In this shirine, this celemony was done every 2 hours, so we took part in at 9:30 AM. It was done in a way of Shinto-style in a dark hall, incense was burn and a Shinto priest read a sutra and some priest beated a japanese drum (one baby was cried with a big sound!) and the priest read the baby's name (in this celemony, about 10-15 baby was attended) and after celemony was finished, another priest push the special paper at baby's head with cloth's

Today, I read the newspaper and it introduced a haiku (japanese poem) with a essay. This haiku was "桜餅の粒実ふふめば哀れなり口中に凛々（りり）とかすむくれなゐ". In this article, サクランボ（桜桃）(a cherry) is introduced in the begining with the episode that it was sent by delivery service and depicted the story of eating it, and finally this poem was introduced. This poem was composed by Fukiko Yasunaga (安永蕗子) who I didn't know, but I liked this poem because this sound of words is very beautiful. This authoress was born in 1920 at Kumamoto-pref. and she got the several prizes, one of which was " 迢空（ちょう・くう）賞" which is the best prize of haiku, so that's why I was moved. (Nikkei newspaper evening edition, June 21 2008) Related link; Google(安永蕗子) 、 asahi.com

Last week when I read the newspaper, I found this word. This article introduce the book of japanese singer "hitoto You" who make the lyrics using the method of onomatopee. Indeed her song is unique so I was intrested in her song. I check out the word オノマトペ(onomatopee) and found that it is very deep and intresting. http://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8E%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E3%83%9A&rls=com.microsoft:ja&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 . Recently I am curious about how the children can get the word or language. At first children can pronounce the word like onomatopee, then sometimes suddenly he can get the exact word, so word and onomatopee have relationship.

He is our new family and he is our first baby! He was born on 28 May, and this Wednesday he came our home from hospital and 4 days had passed. He is very very bouncing baby so my wife couldn't sleep well, but we love him very much. He cried very loudly so we tried to ease him in various ways, and this picture is one of ways to be quiet. (this red material is a rattle and if I shake this rattle, he is very curious about it and hear this rattle's sound and sometimes stop crying!)

When I was a graduated student, I went to London and enjoyed summer school at Goldsmith college for about a month, because I wanted to spend good time at that period. Goldsmith college was located near New Cross station and I stayed at dormitory of this college, because at summer time, dormitory was empty due to the summer vacation time. And I happened to watch Flickr yesterday and search the word "New Cross", then found Goldsmith College's & around this area's picture and felt longing for this town. New Cross is located about half an hour from central London by train, so it is very convenient place to go around central London. And this town is not so big (in another saying, feel a little deserted-looking), so I enjoyed the fist experience of abroad in a relaxing mode, so I liked this town very much. If you see this picture , you can see the dormitory(*) where I stayed about 20 years ago, so I am deeply moved. (*) UK's college is started at September, s

The CD I rented the other day. I happened  to watch it at  ACTUS  in  Shijo Karasuma before  , and found it when I searched for it in TSUTAYA. →  amazon  ,  http://mp3music.blog7.fc2.com/blog-entry-464.html