minorな日記( Minor's Diary)

東武スカイツリー駅、竹の塚駅下車、徒歩２０分の足立区生物園に行きました。

 

 

この元淵江公園の中にその生物園は、あります。

 

 

公園のメタセコイアです。

 

 

種が落ちていました。

 

生物園で蝶々の勉強をして来ました。

 

 

アサギマダラ。

 

 

リュウキュウアサギマダラ。

 

 

オオゴマダラ。

 

 

アゲハ。

 

 

スギクロカバマダラ。

 

 

ツマムラサキマダラ。

 

コノハチョウ。

 

 

枯れ葉蝶の仲間。

 

 

枯れ葉蝶の仲間。

 

 

蝶のレストラン。

 

 

手に乗りました。

 

 

同じく。

 

 

交尾の直前。

 

 

産卵。

 

蝶は葉っぱに虫と書きます。漢字の製作者は良く見てますね。

沖縄の美ら海水族館に行ったとき、スタッフがジンベイザメの前で、

鮫のオスには生殖器があり、交尾できるので、鮫とうい字になったと言っていました。　また、

テレビで有名になった、「人という字は、支えあってる姿を字にした、人は一人で生きることはできない。」

と言って、人の語源を説明したのは、真っ赤な嘘、人の字は、人が屈んで手を伸ばしている所を

象形文字にしたのが語源と言われてます。

 

 

生物園には、リクガメも居ます。オスしかいないそうなので、頑張っても報われ無いそうです。

 

 

アサギマダラ幼虫。

 

 

オオゴマダラ幼虫。

 

 

リュウキュウアサギマダラ幼虫。

 

気分転換にはこの曲「もう飛ぶまいぞ、この蝶々」ですね。

 

ご訪問ありがとうございます。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

今日は１２月９日、9の付く日は空倶楽部の日です。

 

 

今回のお題は「寒そうな空」です。

１２月７日夕方５時頃六義園の空をホワイトバランスを「白熱電球」にして、

「寒そうな空」を演出してみました。

 

空俱楽部の発起人は、かず某様と、chacha○様です。

 

以下、六義園の夜景を順不同で載せました。

 

 

 

 

 

これも「白熱電球」にセットしました。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

滝見茶屋です。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

青い霧が演出されています。

 

 

シャタースピードを６０分の1にして撮りました。

 

ご訪問ありがとうございます。

 

 

 　We could see Annular Solar Eclipse at 7 34 am in Tokyo.


 
 I took Eclipse photos from the our top house.



 Around 7 am the eclipse started.
























  It was cloudy, but The Sun appeared repeatedly.


 It was unforgettable breathtaking experience for me.


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  Thers are very famous Lucky cat mascots in Japan.

 招き猫のお話です。


　The lucky cat mascot. This cat is beckoning you to come here.

  Why this cat is lucky cat ?  There are many explanations about the lucky cat story.

 
 The most famous story is as follows.

   Looking at a cat bekoning, people moved to a temple where the cat is located. So they could escape from a disaster.


  The interest thing is cat's gesture.

 At first open a hand then  clench a fist means " come on"  in Japan.

 At first clench a fist then  open a hand means " go away" in the West.

 Both gestures look  like the same for western people.


 So if you have a Japanese friend, please be careful about the gesture.

 One of the famous birthplace is Imado Jinja Shrine at Asakusa in Tokyo.

 If you come to Japan,you can find many lucky cat mascots at retail shops,Japanese style bars and souvenir shops.


        
 This cat is bekoning you to enter the shop.

                                   Is it funny or interesting?

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  ♪　♪　Going with Jesus, going every day, going all night,,,,,,,♪　♪


　Christmas is coming even in Japan.

 
 A angel is praying.

Japan accepted Christmas as a present or a gift custom. So few people would go to church in a Christmas season.

　日本はクリスマスを贈り物をする習慣として受け入れました。


 Christmastrees.

 Children until 7 or 8 years old would believe that Santa Claus come to at the midnight of Christmas Eve. So Parents would buy a Christmas present for each child and after they would sleep, one of parents woud leave a presnt for each child's bedside.


　Christmas tree illuminations.

  After they would notice who presented somethings to them,They would come to hold a Christmas party. If there ia a child of Buddhist priest,the child would hold a Christmas party at a guest room of a temple.

              
               A Christmas tree.

 We could hear Christmas songs from a temple. It is not so queer in Japan.

 Have a happy Christmas season!

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  I invited my blogger friend and her family from Malaysia in our house.
 


 My blogger friend and her family in our tophouse.

 We planned to go a Metroplolitan garden over there and another Metropolitan garden.
 But it was the coldest day in this year. So we changed our plan and went to a indoor amusement park by my car.


 In front of a indoor amusement park at Ikebukuro.




 In a merry-go-round.



 In a merry-go-round too.

 Coming home,we enjoyed table tennis games in our house.


 Enjoying table tennis games with her husband.

  She writes a blog as follows.

  http://urutoranohihi.blogspot.com/

 And then, we enjoyed dinner in our house.

 They like Japanese dishes very much.   We had a very pleasant time with them.


 My wife and I go to 3 day trip from tomorrow. Good bye for a while.

  My wife and I decidesd to go 6- day travel to the westen area in Japan.Because The aftershocks have been lasting

 We started from March 18th. We visited Kurasiki city at first.

　余震が続くので妻と２人で関西へ旅に行くことにしました。　１８日に出発して倉敷に着きました。


 Kurasiki city is about 740km far from Tokyo. This city remains Meiji period ( about 100years ago) landscape.

 倉敷の街並みです。


 This city is very popular for Japanese people.

 Next day, we went to the northen area in Okayama prefecture. (
Kurasiki is located in southern area in Okayama prefecture.)

　翌日は吉備路に行きました。　総社駅で降りてタクシーでこの一帯を見て回りました。


　This is Kibitujinja shrine This building is designated as the national treasure.

　吉備津神社です。　この神社は国宝に指定されています。

　The next day, we went to the seaside resort hotel and stayed 2 days. On the way to the resort hotel, we went to see the Okayama castle.

 瀬戸内市のリゾートホテルに行く途中に岡山城を見学しました。


　This Okayama castle was originally built in 1597AD. Now reconstructed in 1967AD.

 岡山城です。最初は１５９７年に建てられました。



This castle is black color, so another name is Crow castle.

黒い城なので烏城（うじょう）とも呼ばれます。


　Then we arrived at the resort hotel. The hotel's staffs would say "this sea is The Aegean Sea in Japan".

　瀬戸内市牛窓のリゾートホテルに着きました。　ホテルの人の言うにはここは日本のエーゲ海だそうです。

　Two days after, we went to Osaka. Osaka is the second largest city in Japan.　Osaka is550km far from Tokyo.

 ２日後大阪に行きました。


 We went to see Osaka castle. You can see very small castle tower at the top of this picture.

 大阪城の天守閣が見えます。


　This castle was originally build in 1585AD, reconstructed in 1629AD, and one more reconstructed in 1931AD.

 大阪城は最初１５８５年に造られ徳川時代に再建され、近世にもう一度造られました。


Generally speaking, There were no castle walls to protect the castle. The feudal lords had made the moats to protect their castles.

 日本の城には城壁は無く濠で城を防御したのが一般的です。

　Staying in western area, people's life is as samae as before. There is no damage in their daily life.

 But from northeastern area to metoropolitan area, The crisis remains even now.

 関西地方で人々の日々の暮らしに 災害の影響は感じられません。しかし東北地方から首都圏にかけては危機は依然として続いています。

　We returned home yesterday. We felt relax staying in our house.I felt the temporary refuge is vey differnt from permanent refuge.

 一時的な避難と永続的な避難とは全然異なることに気が付きました。

 Biggest earthquake happened at northen-east area in Japan. We have never exeperienced  such big earthquake since 1867 AD. Before 1867AD, we have no data.

 It happend  when it was 2 pm 46 minutes in March 11th.

 Ｔhe magnitude was 8.8. It was bigger than the　earthqeake at Christchurch in N.Z which magnitude was 6.3.

 Just now the total number of dead and missing people is more than 1600.

  We feel very sad.

 There were a little damage in Tokyo,but 5 people died in Tokyo.

All of our family is safe and there was no damage in our house.

 Very strange things happened at the time for me and my companions.

 私と連れの人にとって、とても奇妙な事がその時起こりました。

　 I worked at Culture and Sightseeing Center in Taito city as a volanteer interpreter.

 私は台東区の文化、観光センターでボランティア通訳として働いていました。

　When it was at 1pm 15minutes, a young man and a woman came the center, and said that they wanted to exeperience the earthquake simulation. A man came from Canada and a woman came from USA.

 その時、若い男女が来て地震の模擬体験をしたいと言いました。

I asked a firestation by telephone wether it was possible, the station staff  replyed that if there was a Japanese interpreter, it was possible.

私は本所消防署の防災会館に電話したら、日本人の通訳がいるなら可能と言われました。

My working time was until 1PM 30minutes and the simulation would start from 2Pm30minute. So I and two foreigners went to the firestation.

私の勤務時間は１時半まで、模擬地震は２時半に始まるのでわたしと２人の外国人は本所消防署に行きました。


From 2PM 30minutes, the earthquake movie started in the small firestation theater.

 そしてその消防署の防災館で２時半から地震の映画が小さな劇場の様なところで始まりました。

　After 16minutes, the theater started to vibrate and the vibration became very strong. All  people thought that the earthquake simulation started.But it was the Real Earthquake. 

 １６分後その劇場で揺れが始まりました。段々強くなりましたが全ての人は模擬地震が始まったと思いました。それは本物の地震でした。


　This building is the firestation and there is disaster drill center　and the little movie theater in this building.
  
 When we came here, there were many fire engine trucks, when leaving here I took this photo, there were no fire engine trucks.

　ここが本所消防署で防災会館がこの建物の中にあります。　帰りに写真を撮った時には沢山あった消防車が１台も有りませんでした。