a japanese life

the life and times of a young japanese woman

Sunday, July 31, 2005


This afternoon, I went to the old japanese house and gona read books like this... but some minitues after, I slept. Posted by Picasa

At the night, my friend is practicing guitar. the song is "Black Bird" of beatles. Posted by Picasa

I cooked italian dish with summer limited colorful veges with the tometo source. It was so yammy that I forgot to take a pix before we ate... Posted by Picasa

Also red. Posted by Picasa

This year, so many tomatoes are being harvested everyday. I made it into tometosource. this is the one I made with yellow tometoes. Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, July 27, 2005


Now I am living with two dogs. Sherry(white one) and Jenny (brown one). I am 15 days limited owner of them. The real owner is away and I am taking care of them untill he comes back. Posted by Picasa

Cool house. typical old japanese house. Posted by Picasa

after the concert Posted by Picasa

this is the the "concert hall". these are the musians rehearsaling.  Posted by Picasa

nice diba? Posted by Picasa

this is the back yard of the cafe where our original purpose "concert" was held Posted by Picasa

this is how people change the direction of the floats. Leverage and many hands. People power! Posted by Picasa

Big wodden wheel. Posted by Picasa

This too. Posted by Picasa

also big floats in this town. these will pulled on the street. Posted by Picasa

It was also festival for the town. some girls wearing Yukata. Posted by Picasa

This is a small shrine. Usually it's kept in a big shrine in this town. Only once a year, (It was the day we went!!!) it is brought out and young single guys in the town carry it on their shoulders and walk the street from 11am to 7pm!!!!! while they are doing that, these youth are keeping drinking. can you see the face of the guy behind the shrine? it's very drunk. And it's quite heavy. so it's really a hard work. also their shoulders get hurt very much.  Posted by Picasa

there was a local festival and traditional shintoism ritual was going on. We were luck that we could see the ritual. Posted by Picasa

Big temple with kids Posted by Picasa

from the other angle Posted by Picasa

these are the other pictures of the old town in Mie. Posted by Picasa

Monday, July 25, 2005


Also there was a small corner with some products. so cute but so so expensive.  Posted by Picasa

I was gona take pix before I eat, but once it was brought, I started to eat at once, hehe. This is brown rice waffle with soy milk cream on top. sooo yammy. and can you see the sugar pot with face? also on top, tinny person is sitting. the tinny one even has arms and legs! Posted by Picasa

My friend is reading a book. I also found a interesting book there. So we were just reading and reading and reading untill the dishes came.
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also this Posted by Picasa