During Golden Week, I did a spot* of sightseeing (観光) in Gifu. I rode my bicycle from Ichinomiya to Gifu, parked it at the bottom of Mount Kinka, then...

Instructions:Step 1: Go to a pine (松) forest.Step 2: Get (命令する) kids to collect pine conesStep 3: Cut out a cardboard (ダンボール) ringStep 4: Attach pine cones to ring with wireStep 5: Attach baby Jesus (doll) in a manger (飼い葉桶)Step 6: Get (命令する) kids to brush pine cones with white paint Step 7: Get ang...

Sometimes I help my son with his homework. This summer I helped him make this money box for his summer holidays homework. I collected most of the parts (except for the screws, ネジ以外) from the beach. You insert a coin at the top & it rolls down to the bottom.Grammar:- help + 誰か + 動詞 or help + 誰か + to ...

Across from Gifu Teragoya is the Gifu City Culture Centre. I noticed these paintings in their street-side display windows, so I crossed the road to take a closer look. Actually, they look better from a distance (遠いから), so this is a photo from my classroom across the road.The top two paintings remind...

大坂南港にある「ＡＴＣホール」（アジア太平洋トレードセンター）にて、年３回開催されています屋内型アート＆ハンドメイドイベント「ＯＳＡＫＡアート＆てづくりバザール」ですが、このたび神戸の「神戸国際展示場３号館」にて開催されることになりました。北海道から鹿児島までの作家が約６００人集合、アクセサリーや陶...

At the 2016 Nitten exhibition, I saw the painting on the left. Do you understand the joke? Originally, the monkeys represent "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil."It`s a good idea, but not an original one. If you go to Naiki, near Ise Shrine (伊勢神宮), you can see the three monkeys in the photo on...

Last Sunday I went to the Nitten exhibition of Japanese art in Nagoya. Afterwards, I bought a few postcards. It was hard to choose [チューズ]- there were lots of nice ones. The exhibition is at The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Sakae, which is easy to get to by subway. However, if you want to go, p...

Merry Christmas, everybody! It`s a busy time in Japan - people are busy attending end-of-year parties (忘年会), buying presents, preparing new year`s car...

今回の高速神戸駅のご担当の先生は、「スッキリ」先生ではないようで、いささか好みでない＜生け花＞でした。「サンゴジュ」の枝を上方に伸ばし、クリスマスシーズンを意識されているのか、針葉樹の緑色の「モミ」の枝、対比するように赤色の「アルストロメリア」と「ヒペリカム」の赤い実が使われ、＜リボン＞を表している...

初描き初着色なんだけどもう飽きました、と言うのも落書き→ペン入れ→着色が１日以内なら飽きないんだけど落書き→ペン入れ→１週間後に着色じゃ飽きてしまう。いや此んな絵描きは私ぐらいです。本当に１週間も間が有ると飽きます。本当に飽きます。だからいい加減に着色しちゃって自分でも気に入らない絵が完成しちゃう訳...