Japanese Culture

Japanese Martial Arts

　　A lot of foreigners interested in Japanese martial arts, but they don’t have a way to know well. So I want to introduce the Japanese culture, martial arts. I’m a member of Kyudo club in my university, so I know some information about Japanese martial arts. They are generally called “budo” in Japanese. For example, the famous Japanese martial arts are Judo, Karate, Kendo, Aikido, Kyudo. This website will provide imformation in more details. All of them have a formal wear like a “hakama“(loose-legged pleated trousers) and strict manners during play it in an exercise hall.
　　Today, some Japanese martial arts are adopted as the Olympic Games, like Judo. And many students in Japan play martial arts as their school’s club activities. They play for their nation or school in competition, and decide a winner. So most of the foreigner may feel Japanese martial arts are played as sports. But strictly speaking, they are not sports. Of course making progress is also important for Japanese martial arts, however, the most important goal is not that point. Japanese martial art’s original goal is brushing up our own spirits through the efforts for making progress. We can see the reason why Japanese martial arts have strict manners from this point.

Blog Questionnaire

Q1. What searching engine did you use looking for informaion?
1. Livedoor
2. google
3. Yahoo!
4. Yahoo!&google
5. google

Q2. Do you have a concept for your blog's design?
1. looks like a cartoons
2~5. no

Q3. How did you find your blog's picture?
1. official site
2~4. Yahoo!
5. google

Q4. How did you seek some information except for internet?
1~4. used only internet
5. library, magazine

Q5. What is your favorite topic in your blog?
1~3. Movies
4. Festivals
5.New Zealand

Q6. What kind of topic do you want to write in your blog next?
1. Cartoons
2. Why Hillary was lost in election
3. American actor
4. Smoking
5. Obama

Q7. How often did you leave your comments to your friend's blog?
1. twice per month
2~3. once per week
4.once per month
5. twice per week

Q8. How often do you see your blog?
1. three time per week
2~3. once per week
4. not so often
5. once per two week

My Best 3 Blogs In Other Classes

I chosed my best 3 blogs from other classes and introduce it.


[No.1]Yellow Backpack man
I chosed this blog No.1 because this blog's picture is very nice and indicate about the topics.


[No.2]Mutsumi
I like this blog because this blog's sentences are colorful and easy to read. And there are a lot of information about the topic.


[No.3]Ni-yan Blog
This blog's design is simple and nice. And the information about "jack o lantern" was very interesting.

My Best 3 Blogs

I chosed my best 3 blogs and I would like to introduce it.


［No.1］Goat In Sheep's Clothing
I chosed This blog because this blog's design is simple, and pictures&topics are good.


［No.2］1234 u-and-me
I like this blog because the design is good and topics are nice, I think. This blog's design is easy to read.


［No.3］T.F.O.A
This blog topic's sentenses are little bit short, but the topics is very interesting and nice links on it.

Japanese World Heritages

I searched for imformation about Japanese world heritage to compare with New Zealand's one. There are 14 places specified as world heritage in Japan. So I would like to introduce two of it.



The Atomic Bomb Dome

In 1945 August 6th, an atomic bomb was thrown down in Hiroshima city. That atomic bomb sprinkled radiation and killed a lot of people. And because of locating just under the bomb, one dome left the form. That dome was built as museum, but after the throwing down that bomb that has been called The Atomic Bomb Dome. 1960, A peace movement person started to protect the dome in order to showing how pitiful the atomic bomb was. Six years later, 1966, that dome was specified as world heritage and many tourist visit there now.

Here is some information about The Atomic Bomb Dome.
And this site provide a live image of This dome. You can watch live camera's movie!



Rouan-ji
Next, The famous temple in Kyoto, Ryouan ji. Here is the site how to get to there. And if you want to know more about this temple's history, click here.
This temple is made by Hosokawa Katsumoto in 1450, and famous for the beautiful garden. The small stones in this garden are set to represent hills and waters. So there are no pond and water.
The main building of this was burnt in fire in 1797, however, after that the main temple was transferred another one in this temple. And now that building is specified as world heritage.

Kouran-kei Momiji Festival

I would like to introduce the famous autumn festival "Kouran-kei Momiji Matsuri"（香嵐渓もみじ祭り）. This festival is held Toyota city in Aichi prefecture and the month is November. The more information about this festival is here. If you want to go to this festival, this website will tell you how to go there. Kouran-kei is the road that Tomoe river to a temple Koujaku-ji.
The road is fulled with the maple and cedar trees. So when it comes to autumn, the maple leaves turn into red and at night the leaves will be lighted up. That's very beautiful views.There are many street stalls along the road. You can eat a lot of kind of food Francfort, Yakisoba and enjoy gold fish scooping, target shooting, and so on.

And very famous artist for a painting in sumi Fuugai Mototaka was born at Toyota city, so his special collection of works will be opened to the public only during the Kouran-kei Momiji Festival.

My Favorite Movies

I like to see movies and that genre is various, fiction, horror, fantasy, and so on. I'd like to introduce my liking movies.



At first, the horror movie "Dead Silence".This movie is horror movie and little violence is contained. The story of this movie is about a doll which carries a curse. One day, the doll was delivered to the couple and both of them didn't know that doll and wasn't written the sender. In the evening, husband went out to buy the dinner and wife stayed at home with that doll. Then the doll moved as one and killed the wife. And the husband was thought murder, but the husband never did that. So the husband started to seek why the doll was cursed and going to kill.


Second, the non-fiction movie"21". This movie is about a really exist man who was the student of MIT. His name was Ben. He was genius and wanted to enter the Harvard University, but the school expenses were too expensive. Ben was bothering how pay that money. One day, the professor of MIT invited Ben to the team of game. The game was Blackjack. The professor said that if we could count all of the card, we could be winner. Then Ben joined the team and earn money in the Vegas with Blackjack.