From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

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

It's intersting to paste YouTube video inside blogs so I searched my favorite Pops and I can find all of them ! But as seen my favorite list below, almost all of them are on late 1980' when I was a college student. -> year 1985 　・Take on me (A-Ha) 　・True (spandau ballet) 　・West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys) 　・Steppin' Out (Joe Jackson) 　・I'm In The Mood For Dancing (The Nolans) 　・I'm not in love (10cc) 　・Breakout (Swingout Sister) 　・Do you really want to hurt me (Culture Club) 　・ Thriller