tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57962430864352468292024-03-14T02:38:19.693+03:00Ö.Burcu ÖztürkÖ.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-32834302030453796882021-05-14T18:32:00.001+03:002021-05-14T18:34:27.509+03:00Laid-Back Camp (YuruCamp - ゆるキャン△) Game - Fumoto Campsite<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU-5erUF-mkkJNvs0cVLwtEVBIPTA80IIrXyy2PQnCXFH6OLQMYnDia3zkGbvmky149IQ0bGoTmUVXzVrSHZzoFvFAe9RSW8Td8tBz_KS__xtNxaRWJ8cF53KOV18W1ZfEFbH_dbOR8J5/s1920/20210512111756_1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU-5erUF-mkkJNvs0cVLwtEVBIPTA80IIrXyy2PQnCXFH6OLQMYnDia3zkGbvmky149IQ0bGoTmUVXzVrSHZzoFvFAe9RSW8Td8tBz_KS__xtNxaRWJ8cF53KOV18W1ZfEFbH_dbOR8J5/s600/20210512111756_1.jpg" width="600" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our camping adventure continues at the Fumoto campsite in the Fukuoka </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="aCOpRe"><span>Prefecture</span></span> of Japan. The second of the Laid-back Camp game has been released. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p><span class="trunc-desc"></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=x/*rHlztDDc&mid=37589&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fgb%2Fen%2Febook%2Flaid-back-camp-vol-1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="new"><img alt="icon" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWhPUNhKaHjhK0jhafd9AQQnLb1OZC0a5daEMcVZTxcvYj1xCUYNMTazAN6CgDbTKaPi9gsEFgCOcEEwaupvpXE0LAD0-Gj_WSVIEEITriivAQ_sq8Vm0vGjuT9WVteT34ffPCHchwZ3r/w640-h438/manga.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=x/*rHlztDDc&mid=37589&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fgb%2Fen%2Febook%2Flaid-back-camp-vol-1" target="_blank">You can buy Laid-Back Camp manga from here.</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First of all, let's talk about the subject of the Laid-back Camp game for those who do not know. This series, where you can watch the cartoon with English subtitles on Crunchyroll and buy the manga of it as an e-book from <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=x/*rHlztDDc&mid=37589&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fgb%2Fen%2Febook%2Flaid-back-camp-vol-1" target="_blank">Kobo</a>, is about high school teenager Nadeshiko [one of the characters in the original series] going to camp with her friend Rin. Rin likes solo camping. And Nadeshiko is a teenager who loves Mount Fuji. You play the camp story of these two. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.authorburcu.com/2021/03/yurucampgame.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can find my review of the first game, Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp) Game - Lake Motosu</span><span style="font-size: medium;">, here. </span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because the gamers complained about the first game's length, this time the game developers needed to state that each version is about the length of an anime episode. (around 25 minutes) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUAHNgAkO4PpJ78GZ57S1x4cTnBpeopfz7_6ueMnjRIWNMfobf2lUvz_aEPGWL-SvJMeOwpAQxLUdddOjnsNmAYCZIYpk1Vx0klu2c3PUtinKJmdWnGKdF7VjGJeQB3uWu0lJqe029zMR/s1920/20210512111436_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUAHNgAkO4PpJ78GZ57S1x4cTnBpeopfz7_6ueMnjRIWNMfobf2lUvz_aEPGWL-SvJMeOwpAQxLUdddOjnsNmAYCZIYpk1Vx0klu2c3PUtinKJmdWnGKdF7VjGJeQB3uWu0lJqe029zMR/w640-h360/20210512111436_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you played the first game Laid-back Camp - Lake Motosu before, you may wonder about the differences between the first and second game.
First of all, you were playing "Nadeshiko" in the first game, and in this game, you play as "Rin". </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0TLYthTKarTlbjl1YNFzGcFjFyHfNn1R8LmPdaLq38aWiedOypPtbSEt3qmtdnt1CwgCCG9BKcLibH22k3W6F1L-gRzG5L4BdWux5HR9LqyHcl5b7pYHk3UdMUGGO571FXw7JDwvmv6q/s1920/20210512111746_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0TLYthTKarTlbjl1YNFzGcFjFyHfNn1R8LmPdaLq38aWiedOypPtbSEt3qmtdnt1CwgCCG9BKcLibH22k3W6F1L-gRzG5L4BdWux5HR9LqyHcl5b7pYHk3UdMUGGO571FXw7JDwvmv6q/w640-h360/20210512111746_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you don't look at Nadeshiko's face, she will try to attract attention and I must say this fits very well with Nadeshiko's cheerful and energetic character. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Again in this game, as in the first game, you can play in VR Mode or without using the Virtual Reality equipment. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82GuoXdSzkpCHlVS8XXbdYBAuUDyrCj6xRFjvpIv9pbEnjT3YWWxcheNFz-duCSYFajvVVuaKc5CYqJn4q7znsBd7ez8RCyXeO6qqdKbaJ_Abp-lAg-c6tKy51p0Eup5IxpMEmniQA_hB/s1920/20210512111430_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82GuoXdSzkpCHlVS8XXbdYBAuUDyrCj6xRFjvpIv9pbEnjT3YWWxcheNFz-duCSYFajvVVuaKc5CYqJn4q7znsBd7ez8RCyXeO6qqdKbaJ_Abp-lAg-c6tKy51p0Eup5IxpMEmniQA_hB/w640-h360/20210512111430_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Although the time/scene changing becomes different in this game, you can also make time changing/ scene selection from the menu screen like in the first game. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqdhWo8hD0ztA5zHoUaeLnJfGKPqlUqKoY6Nm9uPnasYAqocRfus2hE7Dj0hQD7MG5xm6t5xqD3792yh89AK22yxpBPimp_3JtSEfPQgk8sEV_10RhyphenhyphenWaAjUMS3dBwxpx1LO0zA-wIojL2/s1920/20210512113602_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqdhWo8hD0ztA5zHoUaeLnJfGKPqlUqKoY6Nm9uPnasYAqocRfus2hE7Dj0hQD7MG5xm6t5xqD3792yh89AK22yxpBPimp_3JtSEfPQgk8sEV_10RhyphenhyphenWaAjUMS3dBwxpx1LO0zA-wIojL2/w640-h360/20210512113602_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This time, they added a scene that you listen to the weather and music from the radio. This helps you to relax and enjoy the scenery. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVers0MW5f2E70tC1MnuLQgwH3inliPxlREsmegoG71M4S-kvk2c6w-L8scJcoSbWOnh6OajkmK-AKZgMKPJKdxUXmY75UOO6JYJapWsVURiYVnqjJGN2ACNrxVzFFKDghH72_70IpyHTa/s1920/20210512112701_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVers0MW5f2E70tC1MnuLQgwH3inliPxlREsmegoG71M4S-kvk2c6w-L8scJcoSbWOnh6OajkmK-AKZgMKPJKdxUXmY75UOO6JYJapWsVURiYVnqjJGN2ACNrxVzFFKDghH72_70IpyHTa/w640-h360/20210512112701_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At this campsite, a cute dog will accompany you for a while. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfln_EOfJ6D-ArkZJkSUjy5nyjh6se-xUP0zI1KUjRLnPhJV46h3XPaORjklT4V3DWPWWxaiEpSbBtb7S5zpjboneDIZDpKvo0HpbYh0_mB5v9LWS5yJWbupRaJPC-7v0FDTZQnjiP8_Rp/s1920/20210512113010_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfln_EOfJ6D-ArkZJkSUjy5nyjh6se-xUP0zI1KUjRLnPhJV46h3XPaORjklT4V3DWPWWxaiEpSbBtb7S5zpjboneDIZDpKvo0HpbYh0_mB5v9LWS5yJWbupRaJPC-7v0FDTZQnjiP8_Rp/w640-h360/20210512113010_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As in the first game, you can take photos and share them with your friends. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQ8lU8-wFgnQ8ZeyzibDWI7n2d4eevwAQLHW83kgYIJ_jZIjxv-Ct9BYWVsWEAlMKmtHdLHuziwgKBL20aJCwpQz-p5yV2SddPRyXqpK6GZpUdx_to7u3Q2107OADrAK1fm_7YUy0Tgtq/s1920/20210512113610_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQ8lU8-wFgnQ8ZeyzibDWI7n2d4eevwAQLHW83kgYIJ_jZIjxv-Ct9BYWVsWEAlMKmtHdLHuziwgKBL20aJCwpQz-p5yV2SddPRyXqpK6GZpUdx_to7u3Q2107OADrAK1fm_7YUy0Tgtq/w640-h360/20210512113610_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And again as in the first game, they give a delicious camping dinner recipe and you can enjoy Fumoto camping. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGm2gQrteF-MS1m2PqS6QFYy2tqRpq4AobySV-YGG6lIPDjfyiwYqrmnWkWR9MYcv2fmyY9cNEgDiTjXcIBJYBzJLK3NiKHrlphaCbW2-BAgQgwrU2fE2S2AM9PkshGm1SiRq7tadZ-0k/s1920/20210512114922_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGm2gQrteF-MS1m2PqS6QFYy2tqRpq4AobySV-YGG6lIPDjfyiwYqrmnWkWR9MYcv2fmyY9cNEgDiTjXcIBJYBzJLK3NiKHrlphaCbW2-BAgQgwrU2fE2S2AM9PkshGm1SiRq7tadZ-0k/w640-h360/20210512114922_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those who watch the anime or read the manga will know this beautiful scenery of Mount Fuji. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzs6MgEWNCDtlufxm3kUDhqb608EykM5nHtzz_TScbbLUt1SoDVZp1-Yp5lariiJ3NRBXae4h02_sxeOlsGY49rAUhNRX_WwZaJU009r6Fz6dGcHWQUeSjDS6dfLALVMFCseU3MhCtuXw/s1300/laid_back_camp2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzs6MgEWNCDtlufxm3kUDhqb608EykM5nHtzz_TScbbLUt1SoDVZp1-Yp5lariiJ3NRBXae4h02_sxeOlsGY49rAUhNRX_WwZaJU009r6Fz6dGcHWQUeSjDS6dfLALVMFCseU3MhCtuXw/w480-h640/laid_back_camp2.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fumoto Campsite in Laid-back Camp Manga<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese cartoons) which uses the areas in the Real World, make you want to visit those places, too?
Here is the place on the map where the Laid-back Camp - Fumoto Campsite game takes place. </span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGjY7SBrwACminBqLBaQjR5GplY2KWhBH_Jp3JH3jxkDvOZzPZrDlPBzIE0hyphenhyphenngw9wOOIfujOZ5DmFj_aNJNwB8jvFDCCa37k_ZZr-sb5fIYTre4tybSK1Sqj6ZGPlzWCKmuL7gPmXxh4/s1488/laid_back_camp.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="450" loading="lazy" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1620998524140!6m8!1m7!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcFBVRTdUVFJTZUliM1NBYm1tSVNJYTRYVFlPVWFxVG5DTzg3bTB3!2m2!1d35.400945967621!2d138.56132514773!3f320!4f0!5f0.7820865974627469" style="border: 0;" width="600"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="450" loading="lazy" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3376143.553771503!2d132.42219675736345!3d34.273664862451845!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x601bddbee949882d%3A0x282e057b888710f!2sFumotoppara%20Campground!5e0!3m2!1str!2str!4v1620998274622!5m2!1str!2str" style="border: 0;" width="600"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Many Japanese Vloggers are visiting "Laid-back Camp" campsites on location. </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is a youtube video of a vlogger who loves laid-back camp as much as I and visits Motosu Lake campsite. You can watch the video with English subtitles. In the anime, this area is where Nadeshiko and Rin first met and where the first game took place.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FTYHVXc6Kq8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By checking this anime, manga, or game, you can learn whether you are interested in camping or not and maybe start a new hobby.</span></div>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-58013154522983770472021-04-03T20:37:00.004+03:002021-04-03T20:40:31.767+03:00Let's Explore Nagasaki<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnC_40d3S3MvrEE8O4J4WIHPfUqXCKbMFkKU4FpgvMwDj0qh1kzqWawJcroHG3G85hbNAZgb6ILybW7OY9e9WiTFTteJizZBZEv1KET2JvS2N6sskjx_h2RFBBgfEQRy5W3qZJgCdrQx2x/s1080/1eng.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1080" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnC_40d3S3MvrEE8O4J4WIHPfUqXCKbMFkKU4FpgvMwDj0qh1kzqWawJcroHG3G85hbNAZgb6ILybW7OY9e9WiTFTteJizZBZEv1KET2JvS2N6sskjx_h2RFBBgfEQRy5W3qZJgCdrQx2x/w400-h355/1eng.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">In this short story, Tim and Akira, two university students come to Nagasaki from Osaka to attend mystery tour. Enjoy reading! <br /></span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The first part of the treasure hunt is about movies,” he said, his eyes lit up.<br />"Just like a dream come true," said his friend, teasingly.<br />" Remind me again why you came."<br />Tim's attitude changed suddenly with his friend's words. “Why? for free food, of course. Didn't you say that the food is your treat? "<br />“Okay, okay,” said Akira as he looked over his glasses. "Maybe I made a mistake by mentioning Nagasaki and bring him here," he thought.<br /> To change the subject Tim asked, "What was the first clue?"<br />"The first is easy," answered Akira confidently.<br />"Find the Location featured in the remake of the movie Bucket List and Akira Kurosawa's famous movie."<br />"Is that easy?" asked Tim.<br /> "Oh my dear fellow, are you sure you are a cinema student?" said Akira while heading towards the tram station.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwa-KW8hYd1wSheSqvy0RUJ33ZMeLW1T0NuOywTspAM55zDyq0bsWjrJTSAwwF2gc6crg9VN3FmFn3vUx6k8bRBDZvDDmkuJmAltNwWfXM_Diydi0sjyXpdIrNTs1jHIVAVQ62A7DaQOq/s902/peacestatue.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="902" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwa-KW8hYd1wSheSqvy0RUJ33ZMeLW1T0NuOywTspAM55zDyq0bsWjrJTSAwwF2gc6crg9VN3FmFn3vUx6k8bRBDZvDDmkuJmAltNwWfXM_Diydi0sjyXpdIrNTs1jHIVAVQ62A7DaQOq/w640-h640/peacestatue.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PEACE PARK STATUE<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />In a short time, they were in front of the "Peace Fountain".<br />"I get it now," Tim muttered. “Of course, Akira is more advantageous than me since he is a history student. He must have searched before coming. But I have an advantage that Akira does not know, of course.” his thoughts were cut by Akira's voice.<br />“Did you know that his right hand symbolizes where the bomb came, and his left hand symbolizes eternal world peace?" Akira did not expect an answer when he said this to his friend and in fact, Tim was so immersed in his thoughts that he did not realize that they walked till in front of the <b>Peace Park statue.</b><br />Akira continued, “the slightly closed eyes express a prayer asking that the souls of the victims may find rest.” They bowed respectfully as they prayed. Both were thinking the same thing in their mind, the world would be at peace.<br />Neither of them spoke until they started walking towards the exit of the park. Seeing his friend heading for the tram again, Tim curiously asked "Where to?" <br />Akira pointed to the envelope in his hand and said "Second place of course".<br />"When did you find it?"<br />"While you were daydreaming," Akira teased.<br />But the rumble coming from Tim's stomach decided their next stop. Tim took the initiative and they boarded the Blue Line Tram and made their way to Kanko-Dori.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSSKMzrGe3jwJ4S-zXwi0FDPULPcvjBiIUgjKshNGyUZ_YffbALB8Ey-TIay49K6WcWa7zCRF_cvhqOSxpq-aQxhyphenhyphenFBJn9kXCAfo62mhWbFDJlQDDEkCo6KCEF7BLrz4XK9tgbmB4zYeL/s1212/tram.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSSKMzrGe3jwJ4S-zXwi0FDPULPcvjBiIUgjKshNGyUZ_YffbALB8Ey-TIay49K6WcWa7zCRF_cvhqOSxpq-aQxhyphenhyphenFBJn9kXCAfo62mhWbFDJlQDDEkCo6KCEF7BLrz4XK9tgbmB4zYeL/w640-h475/tram.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Here it is," said Tim as his eyes lit up. “You may have researched the whole history before you came, but I did my homework too. I won't go back till I taste all the local flavors. "<br />"Are you sure? This can be a little difficult."<br />"Why is that?" Tim asked as if he forgot.<br />“Hello?? Because the finals are starting and we shouldn't even take this short break. But at least I wanted to join the first part of it,” he said with a sigh. "Anyway, where are we, what are we eating?"<br />"Iwasaki Honpo" Tim replied as he was opening both arms in the air.<br />"We will now try Kakuni-man here." and he pushed his friend inside.<br />"After seeing your eating, cannot stop wondering, what percentage of the human body is the stomach."<br />"Don't worry, my metabolism is fast."<br />"Of course I worry, as your stomach gets full, my wallet is the one becomes empty," said Akira in a whisper.<br />"Ahh .... cat with a curved tail ... come kitty .... come kitty ...."<br />"I don't believe it, after eating this much, you can still chase a cat."<br />“Not a cat, THE CAT, and you should stop counting my bites and say the next riddle if you like. Also, don't you know these cats are unique to Nagasaki. It is believed that they bring luck to people who pet them. "<br />"Wait a minute! did you follow me to get some luck for the exam? If you spent that time studying, you would be more likely to succeed. "<br />"Kitty ... kitty ... kitty ..."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtPYYgdWNOYijNYMKfOduozx9wCCAZNWskG7DmeJObtTudkW2wTZSkqbwK2BMnrY1qg4ZbvUGR7g79ropwSq0baHCb8zaLIbSdNlMgSQM0YXAcmWQ5Il8L6CNA4dfGgd3F6ApWvfE7pziJ/s1212/kedi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtPYYgdWNOYijNYMKfOduozx9wCCAZNWskG7DmeJObtTudkW2wTZSkqbwK2BMnrY1qg4ZbvUGR7g79ropwSq0baHCb8zaLIbSdNlMgSQM0YXAcmWQ5Il8L6CNA4dfGgd3F6ApWvfE7pziJ/w640-h476/kedi.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Hey, I am talking with ... and you are totally ignoring me."<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"So younger, so older,<br />A great detective like no other<br />there is only one truth he believes,<br />there is also someone for him it seems.<br />To please this love, he came this far,<br />without knowing became a star.<br />Hidden in a garden shaped as a heart<br />Oh, how does everyone want<br />to find this stone <br /> and end his lone.”<br /><br />"So?" asked Tim.<br />"Tsk!!!" Akira nervously touched his glasses and turned to Tram station. "We will make a transfer to reach Glover Garden," he called out.<br />Although he was hesitant for a moment about whether it would be better to follow the cat or his friend, Tim chose to follow Akira.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmaFEHoEpsuO5a_i6RR5oFS431xHolKRCNhCwq-AFiIfkpNbCvCAWdaU4OD2Ki4GAv_2vBCYSvfTF1LgDj76gvyqgH1rXcKmBRXACCBUxCiMsW-AwqVuwZ6VY8agB52VMS-6HiZCunQcF/s1212/garden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmaFEHoEpsuO5a_i6RR5oFS431xHolKRCNhCwq-AFiIfkpNbCvCAWdaU4OD2Ki4GAv_2vBCYSvfTF1LgDj76gvyqgH1rXcKmBRXACCBUxCiMsW-AwqVuwZ6VY8agB52VMS-6HiZCunQcF/w640-h476/garden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This is Glover Garden, where the English merchant named Thomas Blake Glover lived. One of the most famous places in Nagasaki. "<br />"I know, I know," Tim interrupted.<br />"You know?" Akira said in surprise.<br />"Banzai Cider, a refreshing drink unique to Nagasaki, is sold right here at Cafe Glover."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-a-D90uSp0bS9JIaC5DkmwElawoPALMBNkmRfVYWkK6ukgzbJDvr8KuXUpHIVS93qOQq6LtqoS4EhEhZVAVy1B95WwkvRjKr8BTjyp9N3OQKp5Z0EGX9djZZr7p9mm_5d9bPcQN_tSzM/s1074/cider.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="352" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-a-D90uSp0bS9JIaC5DkmwElawoPALMBNkmRfVYWkK6ukgzbJDvr8KuXUpHIVS93qOQq6LtqoS4EhEhZVAVy1B95WwkvRjKr8BTjyp9N3OQKp5Z0EGX9djZZr7p9mm_5d9bPcQN_tSzM/w131-h400/cider.png" width="131" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Akira continued walking without looking back. "Where are you going?" Tim shouted after him.<br />Akira suddenly turned back and gestured a heart shape with his arms, calling out "To find the heart stone. If you want to make a wish, don't miss this opportunity." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHn4oy9U0ud2t6ar6INFs9m99Q9H7zg2G_Q7C-cAOz4hQziN7r1sI6VdfK6v7lfImYZOY8gr0kF1ZYBADG1ylSf-8jdpmI6GpL_v9IySnfre7V7B8BKaEMThgifo__NriAfMAMqvQpMqVn/s1212/heart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHn4oy9U0ud2t6ar6INFs9m99Q9H7zg2G_Q7C-cAOz4hQziN7r1sI6VdfK6v7lfImYZOY8gr0kF1ZYBADG1ylSf-8jdpmI6GpL_v9IySnfre7V7B8BKaEMThgifo__NriAfMAMqvQpMqVn/w640-h475/heart.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />He was back in a short time. Tim lifted his head from his drink and asked. "Give up so soon? what happened?"<br />“No, I found it. Now we have to find the other heart. "<br /><br />"River turning into a pair of glasses<br /> A view like no other as one passes<br />The point where reflections meet<br />The face of a monster does one greet. "<br /><br />"Ha?"<br />"Meganebashi Bridge... Right?" a voice was heard. A blond young girl with a smile on her face was talking with them. "You are also ..." she said, turning to Akira, but could not finish her words.<br />Tim's mouth was left open.<br />“You're kidding, right? Is this stone effects this quickly? Where is it, bro? Show me quickly. "<br />The girl was confused. Akira understands what her friend was mumbling and said, “Sorry about my friend's jibberish, Yes, that bridge. I'm Akira, and that's Tim, by the way. Are you on the hunt, too? " <br />"Yes. I'm Melissa. Did you come from Osaka, too? The emblem on the bag also caught my attention. ”<br />Tim started walking towards the tram station alongside his friends, " if only I could see that heart before I left..." mumbled as only he can hear.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvidCJ-Nb73nL_c3Byd8LMZhWl7ButC_FiStdaV5acwrychdbBrdQl2Qctft5SfY5fN1kiGj1fQ20QB4fGtYDDt-bfAOhPg28uLdRwWPNyZAnX3nk_UU6RY3qywD5MwNbj-Y3SmztwXR9/s902/megane.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="902" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvidCJ-Nb73nL_c3Byd8LMZhWl7ButC_FiStdaV5acwrychdbBrdQl2Qctft5SfY5fN1kiGj1fQ20QB4fGtYDDt-bfAOhPg28uLdRwWPNyZAnX3nk_UU6RY3qywD5MwNbj-Y3SmztwXR9/w640-h640/megane.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Megane-bashi Bridge</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"What happened, Tim? Is the food finally getting to you?" asked Tim with a quieter voice.<br />"No way!!! just felt like an unnecessary accessory while you two were walking around lovey-dovey." <br />“Don't be silly,” said Akira “We're going to the same university. That's all."<br />"I'm in the same school too but for some reason, it's just like YOUR school"<br />"Wait, are you jealous ??!"<br />"What?? Not even in the slightest. Anyway, I'm now thinking... about... what to eat for dessert. That's why I'm indecisive. This is my indecisive facial expression.”<br />"Right..."<br />Suddenly the girl takes Akira's glasses from his eyes and held them towards the bridge. "It's really like glasses," she mutters. Akira took advantage of this moment and immediately took off a camera and a photograph from his bag. "Can I shoot?" <br />"Of course" she answered with joy. <br />"What's that?" Tim asked.<br />“Anime scene. It's a scene that takes place here. "<br />“Just a minute,” said Tim with a confused face. "How did you know this place was going to be in the hunt?"<br />“I didn't. I came prepared. Before I came to Nagasaki, I made copies of the scenes of all the movies and animations shot here."<br />"Oh Now I get it, I was wondering what's in this heavy bag that is so important that you carried without being whiny all day."<br />"Oh, everyone has a hobby and this is mine."<br />"Very cool," said the girl suddenly. "If you hold it like this, it feels like reality and imagination are intertwined in an instant, right?"<br />Akira's eyes lit up with hearing her thoughts. “Come on, let's find the heart, if you want of course.” <br /> "Of course," she answered Akira cheerfully.<br />"And here they go," Tim muttered after his friend. But his mourning lasted only five seconds. Another curved-tailed cat had just passed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi1X80dxeH5KPz_irfuAQBDFBJMzL90ju1Hz-fbKztBDJ4HX_dcBzeu0pH2mzX8TNJWjRq5Ugy_7dWhe3VrTA_cpHFYPy2gmImyb0syTnUffmkfZC0MNwhFTWqiKC6r6RwpHzzEkrphim/s1212/dejima.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi1X80dxeH5KPz_irfuAQBDFBJMzL90ju1Hz-fbKztBDJ4HX_dcBzeu0pH2mzX8TNJWjRq5Ugy_7dWhe3VrTA_cpHFYPy2gmImyb0syTnUffmkfZC0MNwhFTWqiKC6r6RwpHzzEkrphim/w640-h475/dejima.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They were watching the sunset in Dejima. "Are you satisfied with what you ate now? Finally?"<br />“I'm eating momo castella. At least my efforts to increase my luck have been completed. "<br />"I knew it."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lZuG7JdkKQabWguytxnJAvHC4ZbRJ8bqf_SgjBHj9TnKFOpLlrxE0D-qLhBHAvfnS595iXpekDaDaZTDEa1E3Wp82ST6aNt0yoQVWgQfa6f-qponHybcplqJG9u7FVjysq6gPdCN6cPa/s1212/momocastella2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="902" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lZuG7JdkKQabWguytxnJAvHC4ZbRJ8bqf_SgjBHj9TnKFOpLlrxE0D-qLhBHAvfnS595iXpekDaDaZTDEa1E3Wp82ST6aNt0yoQVWgQfa6f-qponHybcplqJG9u7FVjysq6gPdCN6cPa/w477-h640/momocastella2.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You like to chase movie frames, and I like chasing lucky items. But admit it, it was quite interesting to meet Melissa. Just after finding the heart stone in Glover Garden. "<br />Akira continued to speak, pretending not to hear his friend. "But what a pity?"<br />"What is? Melissa? "<br />“What?! Melissa...? Of course not. Treasure hunt! We cannot continue, we have to go back. However, it was just starting to get interesting," said while showing the envelope in his hand.<br />Inside it writes:<br />"He has a license to kill since 1953 ..." <br />"Where is this?"<br />"Hashima"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIegKroGf7WHwaAo50VxGl2K388tPnrLfvhgCoLj5ig9NyWWo3DNHemdeamAZenmXhKljbqt5tUu7xLQAJeHrVS8Wbee9PJ6zlLYubTnpKVbu-p5bSBwshhxkrynxZJG4SRMaHeny_aT9/s1212/hashima.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1212" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIegKroGf7WHwaAo50VxGl2K388tPnrLfvhgCoLj5ig9NyWWo3DNHemdeamAZenmXhKljbqt5tUu7xLQAJeHrVS8Wbee9PJ6zlLYubTnpKVbu-p5bSBwshhxkrynxZJG4SRMaHeny_aT9/w640-h475/hashima.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Hmmm? Is that so? I just thought the anime adaptation about Titans was modeled from there," he said while getting a piece of castella cake in his mouth.<br />"Tim??!"<br />"I'm a cinema student, did you forget?" said Tim, as he returned the words to his friend. "Don't worry, we'll come again," he said after thinking for a while when he didn't get a response from Akira. <br />"To tour Hashima?"<br />"Why not? And there are Champon and Udon and... "<br />"Hey! Next time I won't buy it, but ..."<br />"Sure, sure," said Tim carelessly. Their shout out that echoed in Nagasaki's sunset, reminded us that another day was over.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">-THE END-<br /></div>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-85273933052774537822021-03-29T17:34:00.005+03:002021-03-29T17:34:42.447+03:00Mystery Vacation<p> </p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcPnSmZ3UAyGxL6iHoo7jrdvESVeWp1DwGhOXDj5CMGX-bRSIiSsID9IZd6iIldVYONb9igG26IVRLe8qmHX6fXk9sLv5vX3YMsIPRQKS7XL0JJxe8-UmKpJHNt6EIjEElIKemUrkchb2/s2048/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1283" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmcPnSmZ3UAyGxL6iHoo7jrdvESVeWp1DwGhOXDj5CMGX-bRSIiSsID9IZd6iIldVYONb9igG26IVRLe8qmHX6fXk9sLv5vX3YMsIPRQKS7XL0JJxe8-UmKpJHNt6EIjEElIKemUrkchb2/w400-h640/cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highly career-focused and tight scheduled Miyuki suddenly finds herself
in Istanbul on her 30th birthday, when her house-mates Kyoko and Kaori
purchase a ticket for a Mystery Vacation tour as a birthday present for
her to relax and explore new places. <br />She follows the various clues
provided in the tour, also exploring the touristic sites of Istanbul,
never suspecting that the tour will take her on a journey towards not
only new discoveries but also towards her dreams and her distant teenage
love in the past.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h2><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/%C3%96_Burcu_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk_Mystery_Vacation?id=1akHEAAAQBAJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="646" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFyevh3WeDP18VBx2bLa33hIL2noXAHRQKqBqVbxwuKR8rtKQvZC_aQhiqToll2_GH-u-cV7HLvXKbk81bJHpeq0XK7z-u_ue7kqygjXhyhsFDjvRNphgqXxrJbOgHXQt9-didPDWEsZKe/s320/google-play-badge.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></h2></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.kobo.com/tr/en/ebook/mystery-vacation-1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="128" data-original-width="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZnHRT8h-vsNbTmp6L7Vnq0-EkdUZA6XZCUxnmBkwVxgOvk7HwO_c4b8HWaDoQHpTM9ar4z9EsAncOn7xy4E_Rtg1VcStwVyMqqgKnxKllc8kehWQodcJO_QJkvC9QnU13-ZunvDmCmscO/s16000/KoboApp.jpg" /></a></div> <h2> </h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/mystery-vacation/id1551196666?ls=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="1419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOclXZ9Snpu1tb074J0hgfeSbjG32SIpYqeZ2UfbBMY5-hDfSKhzpe6LDj7hBH6Ghdv9iHIdGkMP7KRmJMszKKeqlF6oTK8l898A5Udl3YLd7ElYlZkeKc0myWy51hJ2dyqiv9rKS4yc6/s320/applebookeng.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-91684474117768335912021-03-29T17:33:00.003+03:002021-03-29T17:35:47.152+03:00The Guardians Series Book 1 - DREAM<br /><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"You do not know if this is even
real, do you? Have you ever thought why you are saying these things? It may be
just a dream for you. So, what about us? What will happen to us? What if we
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was confused. I suddenly started to go
away from Jay and Junior. What was happening here actually? And then I realized
what the strange thing I couldn't name was. I hadn't felt anything but feelings
yet. No pain, no fatigue, no thirst, no hunger. I was only experiencing
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<span style="font-size: large;">The internet can sometimes lead to great love stories, or sometimes to new beginnings…<br />The most feared plane trip can lead to the chance of self-discovery…<br />How about such a trip into music and into the unknown?</span><br />
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<br /></div>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-61421961817734195632021-03-04T17:57:00.007+03:002021-05-11T20:16:59.745+03:00Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp) Game - Lake Motosu<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXt1Vcs2CRIu6myTB6r6XDxEeQ917cAp94FcYQzTP0vqkFZR-T0Umk7DMndl1wzuNZFaOo1-e0FCysvOAwRX1UBpGxJ4A1nVN694-PCox2XA53f2Z3YW0Fmu3AEeokFf2QWKD8kDt1SlNV/s1920/20210304104442_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXt1Vcs2CRIu6myTB6r6XDxEeQ917cAp94FcYQzTP0vqkFZR-T0Umk7DMndl1wzuNZFaOo1-e0FCysvOAwRX1UBpGxJ4A1nVN694-PCox2XA53f2Z3YW0Fmu3AEeokFf2QWKD8kDt1SlNV/w640-h360/20210304104442_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Are you ready to go on a camp to Lake Motosu, Japan? I really love this as a manga and as an anime. You can watch Laid-back camp anime at Crunchyroll. And read the manga as an ebook at <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=x/*rHlztDDc&mid=37589&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fgb%2Fen%2Febook%2Flaid-back-camp-vol-1">Kobo.</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkA8jULMs8-fyA7xTbfZicr9YVWoJNxxrnHaPRcVJXfpyLqIuoB1V6Ko9-l-4RlCxaoMx2l9OxdauCvX8Fa1kOOgFkLRIj8qVF1VNh2sylDVhvATx-Ss5yT0UY1oIG5LLgQwGqg4Is4Ih/s1351/anime.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="1351" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpkA8jULMs8-fyA7xTbfZicr9YVWoJNxxrnHaPRcVJXfpyLqIuoB1V6Ko9-l-4RlCxaoMx2l9OxdauCvX8Fa1kOOgFkLRIj8qVF1VNh2sylDVhvATx-Ss5yT0UY1oIG5LLgQwGqg4Is4Ih/w640-h360/anime.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>In the game you play the character Nadeshiko [ a character from the original series] <span class="trunc-desc">a high school student who had moved from Shizuoka to Yamanashi, also someone who really love Mt.Fuji, goes on a camping with her friend a solo camp lover, Rin.</span></p><p><span class="trunc-desc"></span></p>
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<img alt="icon" height="1" src="https://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=x/*rHlztDDc&bids=879335.1&type=10" width="1" /> <span class="trunc-desc">You can play this short game with or without VR. </span> <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKx0M0r0H6FuxY7QYAiHLYkUYB0rGYJgrehCkiWZSaQzcByfkmkjUDmL1txjuOhdjsWFs1N-O9O1fG0ye8oy4oK8QT3lFg63wwd761QxlqQpOC606M6c_pGNTYSTJ4KM4XOu3B5iwJkIb/s1920/20210304104238_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKx0M0r0H6FuxY7QYAiHLYkUYB0rGYJgrehCkiWZSaQzcByfkmkjUDmL1txjuOhdjsWFs1N-O9O1fG0ye8oy4oK8QT3lFg63wwd761QxlqQpOC606M6c_pGNTYSTJ4KM4XOu3B5iwJkIb/w640-h360/20210304104238_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One of my favorite thing from the story is they love making camp foods and also in the game they didn't skip this.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjweVJ7O5cLtVNlyvjm3lSbqANQ-HtLVTbTtyxskqBPEgQqd6uwsZglcwIDPjMi4cjLRq5K6eE1HtMbaCCQI95JIyyJu_c_wqExMvN6auPKAG3oWyoeU3wCAbvCvjhHXaBRtKDXbtMKTS/s1920/20210304102836_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjweVJ7O5cLtVNlyvjm3lSbqANQ-HtLVTbTtyxskqBPEgQqd6uwsZglcwIDPjMi4cjLRq5K6eE1HtMbaCCQI95JIyyJu_c_wqExMvN6auPKAG3oWyoeU3wCAbvCvjhHXaBRtKDXbtMKTS/w640-h360/20210304102836_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>You can enjoy a cup of your favorite drink near the Lake Motosu while chatting with your friend Rin.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0paBdmGH0aCZx4cvjLkb0tTESv0Xs4KDFVeC6GZibm1ElkGRX7T2eb-6UcfAzSTht3NiUtJ-rxerlgBfoagSW-D-QKIsTi2MYq7bht3nqvWx48cygHLufsHf_WebfjM09iHd0RKXHQV9A/s1920/20210304095925_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0paBdmGH0aCZx4cvjLkb0tTESv0Xs4KDFVeC6GZibm1ElkGRX7T2eb-6UcfAzSTht3NiUtJ-rxerlgBfoagSW-D-QKIsTi2MYq7bht3nqvWx48cygHLufsHf_WebfjM09iHd0RKXHQV9A/w640-h360/20210304095925_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>You can also take several photographs in the game.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQaGGHFsDmXr3RgsmWEqLYPl-2DeNIneVKGOgHl16ZAl9rmMLPeNY2Cv_cVJKclDADxcEN6Chry3h9KVACURzr0HVU11y-C_TycHG3X22UywBzyekeuWQEs_lJLycNagNWqxQexpHOVp5/s1920/20210304095853_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQaGGHFsDmXr3RgsmWEqLYPl-2DeNIneVKGOgHl16ZAl9rmMLPeNY2Cv_cVJKclDADxcEN6Chry3h9KVACURzr0HVU11y-C_TycHG3X22UywBzyekeuWQEs_lJLycNagNWqxQexpHOVp5/w640-h360/20210304095853_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPjjW2lryFbvtpi0GHQO9qCeevZ2hTSAjH47ZwA0dMPZLVJ6bpf0E_YqKoOLOaxFV3UivUF44VUAeTQuwi8HP36NAEH2kwBVjMGbXf2ETycQbZ0aKpf_ivgwUqWwhltPOlLkboadGAZUO/s1920/20210304095029_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPjjW2lryFbvtpi0GHQO9qCeevZ2hTSAjH47ZwA0dMPZLVJ6bpf0E_YqKoOLOaxFV3UivUF44VUAeTQuwi8HP36NAEH2kwBVjMGbXf2ETycQbZ0aKpf_ivgwUqWwhltPOlLkboadGAZUO/w640-h360/20210304095029_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I love the details they used in the game.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxTon7PhRw-lkwNvAjfQvO0VY7VBiJR7h9XVXM-RqeHQigQ6W2UtWyeIWDt3aGtQc7Lmxha-DUT-66mOOPLlZn50w0VtOJZR6nk-NrXKpdlOxq-QZiSJWgJSJfZTtPiCrHHHZkyBO8dZ7/s1920/20210304095016_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxTon7PhRw-lkwNvAjfQvO0VY7VBiJR7h9XVXM-RqeHQigQ6W2UtWyeIWDt3aGtQc7Lmxha-DUT-66mOOPLlZn50w0VtOJZR6nk-NrXKpdlOxq-QZiSJWgJSJfZTtPiCrHHHZkyBO8dZ7/w640-h360/20210304095016_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>After you take a photograph, you will share it with other characters in the anime/manga.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUl07cwxnygVKGFwWE3W1_utnCYyzvLyeseDtHItzD5bQ7u0FVNnzclqd0CKjEg72E2v5CBCX8GXFKWeTiOOAnP3hYONyQrtPmMitn0vOIPB1c1gpOZ0f0Lk0KeiPA4LwR8-8EpodNNBvy/s1920/20210304094823_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUl07cwxnygVKGFwWE3W1_utnCYyzvLyeseDtHItzD5bQ7u0FVNnzclqd0CKjEg72E2v5CBCX8GXFKWeTiOOAnP3hYONyQrtPmMitn0vOIPB1c1gpOZ0f0Lk0KeiPA4LwR8-8EpodNNBvy/w640-h360/20210304094823_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lake Motosu <span class="aCOpRe"><span>is the westernmost of the Fuji Five Lakes and
located on the border of the towns of Fujikawaguchiko and Minobu in
southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, <i>Japan.</i></span></span></p><p><span class="aCOpRe"><span><i> </i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJeIjOAtkIUe0qwj6GIll7EqlXHZoJuRbWFxuiJ1eaoVRh2M8x5Es0oDEEy4hP6xyx4bVwCBicY00dteplv-ooRkVe0e4YR-tnUKIndCr5xm3PeONTvE6v2OXiUspr2_MnCu7b-zD5u0p/s1920/20210304094722_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJeIjOAtkIUe0qwj6GIll7EqlXHZoJuRbWFxuiJ1eaoVRh2M8x5Es0oDEEy4hP6xyx4bVwCBicY00dteplv-ooRkVe0e4YR-tnUKIndCr5xm3PeONTvE6v2OXiUspr2_MnCu7b-zD5u0p/w640-h360/20210304094722_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>You can finish this game in an hour. I hope they will make some more episodes for this game. There are little chapters in this game. To change the timeline You should light the fire, cook the dinner and drink an after dinner drink. So till that time you can enjoy that period as long as you like. </p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wCnQgPFL9_A" width="560"></iframe></div> <p></p><p> </p><p>This is a really calming, peaceful game you or your child can enjoy playing. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="348" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ODhTMIL0jAw" width="480" youtube-src-id="ODhTMIL0jAw"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>
Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-13556498515410949112020-08-18T20:45:00.007+03:002020-08-18T20:45:52.963+03:00Interview: Award-Winning Kimono Designer Sato TAKAHIRO<p style="text-align: justify;"><b> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5jlMRxDHk0kMSGJajf7oPYhfBOthkNMVd9FnIQ1FSYjTNRDPN-YofcQEymNHJyVTnfUFMxqsKwSOoyppYs_NvIwkWheGgA1bQcEbWZTp-abDhx7emLQNafVB9qjqNvlbbNb_kejR288B/s2000/432A0027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5jlMRxDHk0kMSGJajf7oPYhfBOthkNMVd9FnIQ1FSYjTNRDPN-YofcQEymNHJyVTnfUFMxqsKwSOoyppYs_NvIwkWheGgA1bQcEbWZTp-abDhx7emLQNafVB9qjqNvlbbNb_kejR288B/s640/432A0027.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sato TAKAHIRO<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ö.Burcu: How did you start designing?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>Since I was a child, I had a big interest in taking apart something and drawing. Like creation and picture, I think it was a start point to design for me.<br />What I had interests in earnest is the product design of the car.<br />Honestly speaking, I wanted to go to college to study product design but my family is not rich so I gave up that way for my mother and went to the Automotive Technical School. In those school days, I felt each part for a car, even a screw, has each function and designed for its role. In other words, we can say a large design CAR is an aggregate of small design, each small part had each function. I was so impressed with this. I think the reason I can design the structure of clothes is from those thinking ways for objects and aggregates of design.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUaZOeIlCuwGZYhIqTa0TF0GwAfKzXLihK0joASJF83bKhALkNHXUfZmaN7oXH4Te5A_5L0xCcn9S4XbJ8mm7DIyDKFcAvRCpB5I1BMyzqqF45vmcJp11tARJwx1ZESgFmVsa3-Gmd8Fh/s2048/DSC_0863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUaZOeIlCuwGZYhIqTa0TF0GwAfKzXLihK0joASJF83bKhALkNHXUfZmaN7oXH4Te5A_5L0xCcn9S4XbJ8mm7DIyDKFcAvRCpB5I1BMyzqqF45vmcJp11tARJwx1ZESgFmVsa3-Gmd8Fh/s640/DSC_0863.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>When it comes to kimono, a certain pattern comes to mind. For a designer, it should be difficult to work with a product that has a tradition-bound background. Why did you choose the kimono? </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sato TAKAHIRO:</b> First, I’m an apprentice knife smith and my feeling that loves Japanese culture and spirits for creation is the base. When I cleaned out my mother’s belonging I found she kept my anniversary kimono and her favorite one with care. I tried to wear kimono after a long time, I thought it’s wonderful again. Until then, as same as almost Japanese people, I also wore kimono only on a special day like 七五三(Shichigosan - celebrate the day for children ) but this experience became a trigger to have interests on the current situation of kimono and I got to know they are in a critical situation. If when kimono is a very common outfit in Japan it may be difficult to design Next Kimono for a new designer like me but now it’s a reform term for both kimono itself and its business world. It’s a special term that a designer like me, having frank and honest opinions like “I like kimono but I can’t wear it by myself.” I think we must pass this culture to next generation but I don’t know where I go wearing kimono. ”There is a word “守破離(Shuhari) ”in Japanese traditional culture. 守is a protecting, 破 is breaking and 離 is leaving. Even there is this word to mean the way of thinking that not only protecting a tradition but also important breaking and changing it, now in Japan, kimono becomes an “Expensive Haute couture on wear only in special days .” So I want to pass to the next generation by “破” "離”.Now it’s a special changing term to be able to do it. I think. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwEKHd71RiAcvp7Ecl2jDmYDcbIYYppXrnhm7k__XM0HZVbBlU7hlcjaagwumYPp3lwNrlekZdDUtHSS6JPblZGrcSYZgRWuQ0rbf7CTUORLeZZdzJ2F_gIUPXEtSoZAY1Gaq-LcezzD5/s2048/lookbook-samurai-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwEKHd71RiAcvp7Ecl2jDmYDcbIYYppXrnhm7k__XM0HZVbBlU7hlcjaagwumYPp3lwNrlekZdDUtHSS6JPblZGrcSYZgRWuQ0rbf7CTUORLeZZdzJ2F_gIUPXEtSoZAY1Gaq-LcezzD5/s640/lookbook-samurai-7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>What is the message you want to give with your brand?</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>The theme of KUDEN is “Things that make you feel like telling someone important for you .”KUDEN is from Japanese "口伝" meaning "tell something important to someone by mouth, teach, and instruct.” It’s used between artisans and their apprentices for succeeding traditional techniques and also handing down among people. I put my thoughts to this theme, “I never create something I can’t tell to a loved one and provide to the customer.” For example, KUDEN protects the working environment, shows the reason for the fair price, and also making jobs for sewing factory. After all, I’m a father so I don’t want my son to wear and use something at expense of others like working in a terrible working environment, unfair wages cause problems for the natural environment, and so on. I think customers who love my design agree with this so to try my best to provide something that they need and enrich their hearts as possible as I can through design, I design with this slogan KUDEN=Things that make you feel like telling to someone important for you.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh694FtewJHB1Zvl7EqZjNE0itN-VmLqVN-HEvzZkAVHyHZYtyGtVjlSyDUVhx9jEd-L5UNt5iZQ2eSsa5TA_9CUjOIH7SJRspPba58nVWNrVScs8pvzgDWp7ZF3Rh2k-2h45YiAdR8BlQK/s2048/Business+Body.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh694FtewJHB1Zvl7EqZjNE0itN-VmLqVN-HEvzZkAVHyHZYtyGtVjlSyDUVhx9jEd-L5UNt5iZQ2eSsa5TA_9CUjOIH7SJRspPba58nVWNrVScs8pvzgDWp7ZF3Rh2k-2h45YiAdR8BlQK/s640/Business+Body.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>How would you describe your style? How do you want people to react to your designs?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>I design Samurai Mode Series, especially Jacket for people all over the world who work hard for someone, live with strong beliefs and values, and have the will to carry on. For me, wearing clothes is the same thing to wear a second skin. It’s a very hard time and many things happen in this society. Sometimes I also get anxious and downbeat as a business owner, a person, and a father. Even in those situations, to encourage people who are determined to do something for themselves and other people, like "OK, I can do it; I believe in myself." “Put my heart into each action.” and also to express such a feeling, I design Samurai Mode Series. I’m honored if you wear on your important business day, special day, and daily life as a part of your skin. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIV_N9MoyTaIjZbnk-WPAIiLzPW7gbyJBII0kGHMJ7abXZq8NocCWcoie9a2D4K_eqzXOIAaMNMDk0CD7VxsQTDBOWfgICVYh-jv2maTgmw2r_KHkB-j95dYXt8CtuyGrAHptz4bSH-Fc/s2048/39703266950_0de7f7ba00_k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIV_N9MoyTaIjZbnk-WPAIiLzPW7gbyJBII0kGHMJ7abXZq8NocCWcoie9a2D4K_eqzXOIAaMNMDk0CD7VxsQTDBOWfgICVYh-jv2maTgmw2r_KHkB-j95dYXt8CtuyGrAHptz4bSH-Fc/s640/39703266950_0de7f7ba00_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>What are the things that inspire your designs?</b><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>My son. He has disabilities but very good at drawing and has a great sense. I feel he always leads me. Giving a good impact on each other, I also feel like “I want to give it to him too” and these thoughts affect my design. I think everyone feels like that.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68E_8EUtwf6VSHPnVqzXXKqLfBj2T1X7RTZEjSFDSamcdOxZ4C6HxEv_B5Gdc7G4K_l2p7ofraurH3GBsKihhRUv2hCWOJTnjhtL_VLD7hWM81Uh6pNepi28JJG0Kk355W_MkRaU_qVpM/s2048/serene-shirt-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68E_8EUtwf6VSHPnVqzXXKqLfBj2T1X7RTZEjSFDSamcdOxZ4C6HxEv_B5Gdc7G4K_l2p7ofraurH3GBsKihhRUv2hCWOJTnjhtL_VLD7hWM81Uh6pNepi28JJG0Kk355W_MkRaU_qVpM/s640/serene-shirt-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Which one do you think is important in design; creativity originality, or long-term usability?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>I think the design is not only what we can see by our eyes. These days, design thinking is touted, but in my opinion, as a root of design, the design is a tool to express and control words and visual to tell something or make it true. Design is to actualize hopes that want to help someone, want people to think so beyond words, generation, country, and values. The design has the power to do that.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZpFwNEwOlZB8mqe9D7Cu24wr6GOH8PEnyUDcWStfZvG0Ubjdia0RQyjWAS8yvDLt9HOsU83I2R7ezUPARFn7T8KSGnqn0ffeNmwb9MqQK6GvrNKGkjMasgGCv34GnjpIiI7_Qbyf82S-/s6000/AA22B71C-5A20-4B98-8C6C-AD4279647FB1-58593-000010E45951BCA1.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZpFwNEwOlZB8mqe9D7Cu24wr6GOH8PEnyUDcWStfZvG0Ubjdia0RQyjWAS8yvDLt9HOsU83I2R7ezUPARFn7T8KSGnqn0ffeNmwb9MqQK6GvrNKGkjMasgGCv34GnjpIiI7_Qbyf82S-/s640/AA22B71C-5A20-4B98-8C6C-AD4279647FB1-58593-000010E45951BCA1.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>You have been awarded the IRON award in Italy in the 2019-2020 social design category. This is one of the most important awards in the world in design. What does this award mean to you?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>First of all, I can’t make it only by myself. It was my first time to make clothes. I have worked in the design field but this award is the first prize for me as a designer. I’m so honored. If without people making my clothes, staff doing their best to start my brand together and customers, I can’t receive it so this is very special for me. Actually, many people told me “You should submit your design in the fashion design category “ but I really want to challenge in the social design category. Because the sewing factory where made my first clothes and many people who helped me a lot went bankrupt because of problems in apparel business world, short cycle fashion trend, unfair low wage, and short term delivery. I was really disappointed myself and this business world but that’s why I thoughts “We must change it” strongly. So I challenged as social design, not as fashion design. And then, my design received a great evaluation from Italy and design professionals in the world. It’s very meaningful for me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcgPrHQSnZu0IZ8WNPp4IEpLnqiGyAdW3OAwZUSedv1yjKZjpRz7SPVB4J2M48kkDfsDJPCpkSU5NFinPkLE6Q-Y5MnjgVaaG4lNXiCbrM6EVWH5eC8uszBkFQ19GT_oD0pSzkPt54-2DP/s2048/lookbook-samurai-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcgPrHQSnZu0IZ8WNPp4IEpLnqiGyAdW3OAwZUSedv1yjKZjpRz7SPVB4J2M48kkDfsDJPCpkSU5NFinPkLE6Q-Y5MnjgVaaG4lNXiCbrM6EVWH5eC8uszBkFQ19GT_oD0pSzkPt54-2DP/s640/lookbook-samurai-7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Can you tell us a little bit about your collections? The Samurai-Mode Series sounds pretty interesting. Can you provide information about the inspiration point and the intended use?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>As I said before, I got the inspiration when I sorted out my mother’s belongings. And the other hand, also my feelings through experience that closed my previous company because of sick by hardworking and made a decision to challenge again for my son have a significant effect. At that time, I felt “want to face to it like samurai .“Challenging again to something we failed before needs big courage. For now, I think I made clothes to make me the courage and give me a push on my back. I wear these clothes and a challenge to make a place that works with my disabled son. Those feelings make an impact to design and naming Samurai Mode, I think. And also, I take care a lot to re-boot kimono itself again. Of course, it’s a philosophy of kimono, I think one long fabric clinging to the body makes beautiful silhouette so how to express that silhouette by western dressmaking, how to actualize kimono that fits people who have each shape in the world without special technique to wear. I did trial and error again and again for those points. How to use it, I’m glad if you wear it when you have a fun, daily life, a special day, want to have the courage and make yourself calm. You can wear 3 pieces at the same time as kimono and also take 1 clothes to your daily fashion with kimono style easily. No need special technique to wear, I particular fabric and comfortable to wear. If you have the experience to wear kimono, I think you’re surprised by their lightness, delicacy, and comfort.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQoM7vbLEJAMVT8bWPcgCVtvUF36nyVHYBX1U280PSr77qGpgm-3D4TJXMxRQRFnk4GPfSudVxLUzoAPVWNe-qGklW6pBT24m-qyjM6e1W-iGSoEnGyiy2okNXBhAt5zTAjk8qpZtWlXi/s2000/DSC06783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQoM7vbLEJAMVT8bWPcgCVtvUF36nyVHYBX1U280PSr77qGpgm-3D4TJXMxRQRFnk4GPfSudVxLUzoAPVWNe-qGklW6pBT24m-qyjM6e1W-iGSoEnGyiy2okNXBhAt5zTAjk8qpZtWlXi/s640/DSC06783.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Your brand not only covers clothing but also products made with care by craftsmen. Can you tell us about these products under your brand?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>First, it’s again but I’m an apprentice of knife smith so I respect Japanese creation and artisans. I was born in Nikko, Tochigi prefecture in Japan. It’s a famous by world heritage Nikko Toshogu Shrine and also as woodcraft town. I grow up in an environment near a specialist in woodcraft so I have thoughts to introduce them. I’ll take them in design and item from now on too.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5oUrx2NlLmLJzi5djqzqJkJ4X0U9iGaIpXmGeipmwSECFwMiTvJ4EClVe0VAtjt5a7X8wIWAfSMdDZ-4nCVPKsjlHSx6giSnlQAYF-m3uySnl9ceJoEWrmnRvPNTzpesgyJ4vDErkR2i/s2048/_lookbook-monotone-image14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5oUrx2NlLmLJzi5djqzqJkJ4X0U9iGaIpXmGeipmwSECFwMiTvJ4EClVe0VAtjt5a7X8wIWAfSMdDZ-4nCVPKsjlHSx6giSnlQAYF-m3uySnl9ceJoEWrmnRvPNTzpesgyJ4vDErkR2i/s640/_lookbook-monotone-image14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>What are your future plans for your brand?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>The shirt that is the motif of 襦袢(Juban) and 半襟(Hann-eri) will be coming. Juban is underwear for kimono. Hann-eri is a customizable collar and one of the fun for kimono. This new JUBAN shirt has a beautiful silhouette and adds this fun on Samurai Mode. I’ll use not only new fabric but also a part of vintage haori and kimono that no-used long time and almost thrown away, now KUDEN handles as the vintage line.KUDEN provide a vintage haori and kimono in affordable price as a trigger to take kimono in their daily life but there are what not fit for sale because of dirty. I think it’s wasteful if we don’t use them so remake to Hann-eri(Collar) and use it as possible as we can. It’s also an ethical approach from KUDEN. I want people to enjoy Samurai Mode Series and traditional one together. They fit each other as fashion. To enjoy outfits variation, I have a plan for suggesting outfits idea, new accessories like bag and haori-strings (羽織紐). I want to provide a borderless way to enjoy them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3mK7WO8p4hWIgqkRZODyzFKiuDRXLXU2M_4HcVvFdrKY90esmSeUmEGkLNXm9u92bhmhCLw6GJ_9HII4QDG49cHxqwAl-WJeJL94Qfh89kVvWZN0F_7tqdhanVlNbQZeh1Hu53KdbOPZ/s2048/lookbook-samurai-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1109" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt3mK7WO8p4hWIgqkRZODyzFKiuDRXLXU2M_4HcVvFdrKY90esmSeUmEGkLNXm9u92bhmhCLw6GJ_9HII4QDG49cHxqwAl-WJeJL94Qfh89kVvWZN0F_7tqdhanVlNbQZeh1Hu53KdbOPZ/s640/lookbook-samurai-2.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>From where can people around the world buy your designs?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>For now, from the website of KUDEN. If we sell wholesale to a retailer as same as other general apparel brands, our product must be expensive so I put effort into direct selling to customers. Because I want to provide high-quality products to customers, never cut the wage to sewing factory unfairly, and generate fair profits to artisans. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfLZ2xgfq5BNOi0ZcHjMJDDwfD2nVXei1d0iKZWWIJIEb2-xOOL-lBTmLr8Oddt_3HdTsSV3GL1w05DqQUOmaKN64O5MBlGZBsiG9z_s87q2oFAjMD7IuzD9Z6R8woGd_O9JLZICx-pLo/s2436/IMG_9442.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2436" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfLZ2xgfq5BNOi0ZcHjMJDDwfD2nVXei1d0iKZWWIJIEb2-xOOL-lBTmLr8Oddt_3HdTsSV3GL1w05DqQUOmaKN64O5MBlGZBsiG9z_s87q2oFAjMD7IuzD9Z6R8woGd_O9JLZICx-pLo/s640/IMG_9442.PNG" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I introduced how to find the best size of Samurai Mode Jacket for you on Instagram and prepare to tell more detail of my products so I’m glad if you check our Instagram too.<br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>I really enjoy following your brand’s Instagram page. You show not only your designs but also the usage areas. In the meantime, you are promoting many parts of Japan, too. You also have interesting segments. Can you tell us about your Shodo4U and Washoku posts?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOlHi95wzZuL_dEzzmgMqIRvVYhEpu3QRPA7sRkVqIa1dHN88KauC2L2TrQdFyd5uCKg7HH3e1Nl4zs4tpT1GtY2fXnllw_OspTYbwLIU6LIx9MOd37gAXANklAWRFaRKDtTDSb4kG-Z8/s1280/IMG_9446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOlHi95wzZuL_dEzzmgMqIRvVYhEpu3QRPA7sRkVqIa1dHN88KauC2L2TrQdFyd5uCKg7HH3e1Nl4zs4tpT1GtY2fXnllw_OspTYbwLIU6LIx9MOd37gAXANklAWRFaRKDtTDSb4kG-Z8/s640/IMG_9446.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sato TAKAHIRO: </b>Cooking is very similar to me because my mother told me cooking since I was around 5 years old and also I’m an apprentice of knife smith. I study about food by myself because I got sick because of hardworking before. Also now I cook dishes for my staff in my company. I think if I introduce the way to cook Japanese cuisine without special cooking tools and ingredients to foreign people, I think they who like Japanese culture, spirits, and products may be happy. So I make a project about Washoku(Japanese cuisine) and Shodou(Japanese calligraphy).In the future, I also consider providing products about Washoku or Shodou by my sense. So I’m welcome to comments and message if you want me to make it.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 22.8411px; left: 128.158px; top: 125.252px; transform: scaleX(1.04723);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxNUXRPTe_EEf2k_nPQNHENd_3Flg-82OirunIx6bpIOP9OiCtmYqtJB2chefmujIMIddY3lYJ8ltg_2jpVZRGr9Qeol8ymVMU8ERkMkJiUG7UHiWa1VhC6nq2iuFTyCNKsiw_e_PS6YB/s2048/432A0219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxNUXRPTe_EEf2k_nPQNHENd_3Flg-82OirunIx6bpIOP9OiCtmYqtJB2chefmujIMIddY3lYJ8ltg_2jpVZRGr9Qeol8ymVMU8ERkMkJiUG7UHiWa1VhC6nq2iuFTyCNKsiw_e_PS6YB/s640/432A0219.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 22.8411px; left: 128.158px; top: 652.23px; transform: scaleX(1.0006);"><br /></span><p></p>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-35411408531219581992020-08-18T18:27:00.005+03:002020-08-18T19:50:55.266+03:00Interview: President of Japanese Music and Arts Association Ayşegül ATMACA<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPPZtMImBiCwbtFLrxwh3p950eKBPZ9YQsNq6VEFdHLeu3K0N8TAZLloFMamjIuYhxDy0Ky2WkknEGqM5NxDq63JDp5nlZfASO5wJgMbOwi8KW5zlzG2qqV9gs7jYXqpdmZlTPn_lWP8b/s1327/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-14+at+12.58.10+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Atsuko Suetomi ve Ayşegül Atmaca" border="0" data-original-height="1327" data-original-width="1030" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPPZtMImBiCwbtFLrxwh3p950eKBPZ9YQsNq6VEFdHLeu3K0N8TAZLloFMamjIuYhxDy0Ky2WkknEGqM5NxDq63JDp5nlZfASO5wJgMbOwi8KW5zlzG2qqV9gs7jYXqpdmZlTPn_lWP8b/w497-h640/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-14+at+12.58.10+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="497" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atsuko Suetomi and Ayşegül Atmaca<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ö.Burcu: Could you tell us about the founding process of the Japanese Music and Arts Association? </b></p>
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<b>Ayşegül Atmaca:</b> In early 2014, we created a music community in order to introduce Japanese music to Turkey with a group of friends who lived in Japan and/or play the Japanese koto instrument. The leader of this community was the Japanese Koto Artist, Atsuko Suetomi, who was also our teacher. We gave concerts in different parts of Turkey with this community. Unfortunately, however many of our projects couldn’t come true because of our opportunities as a community were very limited. In the meantime, we realized that there aren't enough Japanese art associations in Turkey. In 2017, we established our association to introduce Japanese art, which has such deep roots, to a wider audience in our country and thus reinforce the friendship of the people of both countries.
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>When you put aside your presidential identity, can you talk about what Japan represents for you and what drove you on this path?</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ayşegül Atmaca: </b>Between 2009-2013, I worked as the Culture and Promotion Consultant in Tokyo. When I heard about this assignment, I was a little surprised and a little hesitant at first. It was a very different culture, a very distant country; I started my duty with worries about whether I can. However, Japan has been the turning point in my life. With this mission, I opened such a door that there was a completely different world behind it. Words are not enough to describe Japan, but I can briefly say this: Japan is, above all, a country of "respect". It respects human beings, animals, nature, in short, all components of life. This respect brings with it valuing and protection. I watched with great admiration, especially how nature and history are preserved with great care. On the other hand, working and producing has an endless meaning for the Japanese people. If you put your heart into it and do it with care, you will always be appreciated and rewarded in some way. Art is life itself in Japan. Seeing creativity in every aspect of everyday life, capturing aesthetics, watching the channels of spreading feelings and thoughts through art have deeply affected me in my life in Japan. With all these feelings, we wanted to establish our Association and introduce what we see and experience there to the people in our country. </p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>It caught my attention as a writer and enthusiast of Japanese culture. Your association has a library. What kind of books do you keep? What can those who want to contribute do? Or how can those who want to use your library reach you?</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ayşegül Atmaca: </b>As far as I know, there is no special library that contains only works in the field of Japanese art in Turkey. We aim to create an art library that focuses on Japanese art. Our association is a very recently established association. For this reason, we have not yet reached an accumulation that can be open to the user. We want to be a library available to the user with library materials that we obtained from our members, followers and charitable citizens. At this point, we will be happy to accept donations related to art books, Japanese art books, videos, magazines, maps, sound recordings, etc. library material in any language. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUmUZqBdkRy9jM3pSdoYUwuzvfrEHwJd6qE05WBGfhTycVng4dCsqW3DFefHP60oOUToFH1oL1V_yC9s4IGwTnR83i8SbWAA8aReH7xLRBpmPN0weIaqHhEgZT2q7JffL4SdIkxLD40HRe/s1045/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-14+at+12.58.11+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1045" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUmUZqBdkRy9jM3pSdoYUwuzvfrEHwJd6qE05WBGfhTycVng4dCsqW3DFefHP60oOUToFH1oL1V_yC9s4IGwTnR83i8SbWAA8aReH7xLRBpmPN0weIaqHhEgZT2q7JffL4SdIkxLD40HRe/s640/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-14+at+12.58.11+%25281%2529.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="title2 fixHeightChild-h2" style="height: 109.4px;"><span class="title-main" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="st">Japan Ambassador</span> <i>Akio MIYAJIMA</i>, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Koto Artist <i>Atsuko SUETOMİ</i>, President of Japanese Music and Arts Association <i> Ayşegül ATMACA</i></span><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>When it comes to Japanese music, taiko, and koto, when it comes to Japanese art, Ikebana comes to mind first among Japanese lovers. However, when it comes to Japanese arts, we also think of Noh and Kabuki theaters. Has anything been done in Turkey to promote Japanese theater? Or do you have any plans on this subject?</b></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ayşegül Atmaca: </b>Noh and Kabuki theaters are among the oldest and most established traditional theater arts in the world. While conducting our work on Japanese art, we especially want to be able to promote these theatrical arts. In fact, before the covid 19 outbreak started, we started a very special project on the Noh theater. The project had reached a certain stage, but the point we have reached regarding the pandemic has limited our possibilities to carry out this project “at least for now”. We will be able to continue this project when the epidemic ends or at least the risks are minimized.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Until now, as the Japanese Music and Arts Association, you have initiated many seminars and events in our country. Due to Covid 19, many events are now taking place in the digital environment. Are there any digital events in your 2020 and 2021 schedule?</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ayşegül Atmaca: </b>In fact, at the beginning of the pandemic, we organized two very special events as our Association. One of our founders was Atsuko Suetomi's Koto concert. The other was our interview with the General Secretary of our Association, Ikebana Artist, Neslihan Noyan about Ikebana. We will continue to produce our digital projects in 2020 and 2021, wishing that this global disaster will end as soon as possible and that we will be able to contact "face to face" as before.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Is your association membership open to all lovers of Japanese culture? How can those who want to support your association contribute? </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ayşegül Atmaca: </b>Art is a universal language. Understanding and uniting societies are one of the most important ways to contribute to world peace. Our association embraces this goal and opens its doors to everyone interested in Japanese culture and art. Those who want to know, become a member and support our association can view the following link of our association website: http://jmsder.com/</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p></p>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-27698191978925028792020-08-08T21:49:00.007+03:002020-08-09T16:13:03.603+03:00Interview: Ikebana Artist Neslihan Noyan<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P9KGF9P4SO_IrQgoR-Hjt2UUNVU-64lzOB3jTbVbltEt0iOEYF5AtGFPjDHtID3-pdyZsNMOuf_jaxLmHZh83GDZXrdAIQE-oCguS6nz2hZSxxv1Lcp6mLPmAiWh2DxmqtZtFBgPBEM/s640/5.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P9KGF9P4SO_IrQgoR-Hjt2UUNVU-64lzOB3jTbVbltEt0iOEYF5AtGFPjDHtID3-pdyZsNMOuf_jaxLmHZh83GDZXrdAIQE-oCguS6nz2hZSxxv1Lcp6mLPmAiWh2DxmqtZtFBgPBEM/s640/5.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Hi Ms. Noyan. Welcome to my page. Could you please tell a little bit about yourself?</b></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">
Hi, first of all, I would like to thank you for giving a space to me at your blog .I am Neslihan Noyan born and raised in Ankara. After graduating from the Fine Arts High School, I received my undergraduate degree from Hacettepe University’s American Culture and Literature Department. I worked as an English teacher not only in Turkey, but also in Japan and the U.S. I lived in Japan between 1997-2000 and attended Ohara İkebana School of Japan and studied Japanese. Then, I lived in the United States between 2000-2007 and I did my graduate studies on Linguistics at Syracuse University New York and taught English to foreigners in a language school. I have been working as an expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2008. In 2010, I wrote a book on behalf of the Japanese Year in Turkey; namely “Japan as I Heard and Saw”. I have been attending ceramics classes and making my own containers for my flowers. I opened my first İkebana exhibition at the Turkish American Associations’s Emin Hekimgil Art Gallery on behalf of Mother’s Day with the title “ All mothers are flowers” and my second ikebana exhibition in March 2019 at the Turkish-Japanese Foundation with the title “ While waiting for Spring”.
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>How did your journey as an İkebana artist start?</b></div>
<p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">I started İkebana to understand the Japanese sense of dealing with nature. Thanks to Hanami: Japanese Flower Observing season, I was able to develop a deeper understanding of enjoying flowers. When I was living in Japan, I often saw Japanese people gazing at flowers as if they have never ever seen one single blossom in their lives during the time of chery blossom season, which falls in April. So, I asked my friend the reason of this attitude. My friend said ”Neslihan-san Sakura: Cherry blossoms bloom for just about a week. Then they fall with the coming rain or wind. This is like a summary of the circle of life for us. Our lives are momentary just like the flowers. How did you make your life meaningful? What differences can you make while living? This is what we think when we observe them.” At that moment, I fell in love with this great philosophy. From that moment, I decided to disseminate this deep philosophy in my environment and in my country.
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have been doing ikebana over the last 20 years. This art has taught me that flowers do have their own language. While arranging flowers, you feel yourself as a part of nature and you become a whole with nature. I thought that this type of realisation shouldn’t be limited to only ikebanists therefore, I have started to give seminars and write projects to raise awareness on the issue of raising a respectful generation who adore and take lessons from nature.</div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPmh7e3Bvjew5FxOcfwv-tygQhaJQzTQ3vopbpDgD5fUFTuka0O26jgu7UPLGk_Bbf9-DjKTCjyTkYXyASOWT6DeUPaqyEIZ6Oyi_0shyphenhyphen4M_h1jQ1sYHGq0X8xY4uqKuEOEWuCp5Y9yI/s559/3.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="553" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPmh7e3Bvjew5FxOcfwv-tygQhaJQzTQ3vopbpDgD5fUFTuka0O26jgu7UPLGk_Bbf9-DjKTCjyTkYXyASOWT6DeUPaqyEIZ6Oyi_0shyphenhyphen4M_h1jQ1sYHGq0X8xY4uqKuEOEWuCp5Y9yI/s0/3.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p>
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Could you please give information about İkebana for those who are not familiar with the art and the values it represents?</b></div>
<p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Ikebana dates back to Buddhist tradition. In order to appreciate it at a deeper level, one has to look into Buddhist and Zen philosophy. When we analyze the word “İkebana” etymologically, “ikeru”: live and “bana”=Hana: Flower. It means” live flowers”. It was born in the 15. Century in Rokkaku Temple in Kyoto as a religious ritual to give thanks to Buddha and today it has more than 3000 schools in Japan and has been widely spread all over Japan and many countries. İkebana is more than a hobby. For the ones who have chosen to practice it, it is a way. This way is called “the way of flowers”. This way lasts for a life time and the ones who have chosen this road feel a sense of belonging to nature. İkebanists or ikebana artists are in tune with nature and they try to convey the divine relationship between man and nature in their works.
</div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Are the flowers people use in Japan different from the ones in Turkey? If so, how?</b></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">In Japan, each flower has their own seasonal meanings and symbols. I cannot find the same variety in Turkey; however, I do my best to convey the meaning of this art in Turkey as much as I can.
</div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Japanese Ambassador Akiyo Miyajima described ikebana” as something while preserving its traditional roots of the Japanese culture, it is something that changes the tendency of time. In this respect ikebana is similar to that of Japanese and Turkish culture, which value traditions while being open to novelties.” How do you feel that connection while practicing ikebana?</b></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">
Yes, I agree with the Excellency Miyajima-san wholeheartedly. There are any similarities between Turkish and Japanese cultures. However, Japanese people lived in an isolated island, which has given them a homogenious identity. Turks can adapt changes quickly since we kept on moving from one place to another for years. When we consider things from that perspective, Japanese people are not that as flexible as Turks. They tend to follow structures really well. They are disciplinarians. On the other hand, I have observed that hierarchy and authority are important in both cultures. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">
Having lived in Japan, learning Japanese and practicing their arts, have helped me understand their culture. I do my best to connect both cultures in my works.</div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiie1QilRUt24yHANR-J2Qw-33LUIKt9y1VkUOupYmFump_hYR_HRHe7Jf5IjE2A36Ch5Zwo0ahVw2bs3nS-NQhgiGYyzD2UwTCgWkzx-K6nOaIsmU7lkzVhVPBaKSoKeGbqHLjLQ6U9TE/s1323/6.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1323" data-original-width="1059" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiie1QilRUt24yHANR-J2Qw-33LUIKt9y1VkUOupYmFump_hYR_HRHe7Jf5IjE2A36Ch5Zwo0ahVw2bs3nS-NQhgiGYyzD2UwTCgWkzx-K6nOaIsmU7lkzVhVPBaKSoKeGbqHLjLQ6U9TE/s640/6.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Could you please tell us about your İkebana work which has received an award in Japan?</b></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">
Sure. I have combined ikebana with ceramics over the last two years. Now, I produce my own ikebana containers. In my works, I follow Japanese Wabi-sabi philosophy. Ikebana and ceramics have been influenced by this philosophy a lot. Wabi-sabi supports nature and things that are natural. Contrary to Western philosophy, it helps you reflect the pure spirit of nature into your art. While emphasizing the impermenance of life, wabi-sabi invites us to enjoy the moment.
I gave the title “ We need to consider life from a different window” to my work. I was happy that this piece of work gained recognition and appreciation by Japanese İkebana Masters.
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You give lectures about İkebana to the people who are interested in Japanese culture. Do you also give İkebana lessons?</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">
I regularly give İkebana workshops at the Turkish-Japanese Foundation. Soon, we will organize Hanami : Flower observing tours during Spring and Autumn to our members. We plan to give information about our nature in these tours.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Can everybody learn İkebana?</b></div><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;">
There aren’t many people doing ikebana in Turkey. I believe that one needs to be familiar with Japanese culture in order to learn İkebana. For this reason, during my workshops, I also give information regarding Japanese culture and aesthetics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
I think that people interested in the beauty of nature can learn ikebana. However, practicing it takes a long time. Therefore, one needs to observe nature daily and be patient while practicing it.</div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-muPDz0bvJqEKwFnHPhyphenhyphent2nNFtH2oSZNGwhPPCQEb1oDufRfQ3a0QuaZhnNwJcmwQXnRWgz_IpDq9c3jXla4ySbyhblINtOJchKIeVc6q2MEADCqkd8t3XxOlnbxARMW0_yubwHjBYyY/s689/2.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="479" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-muPDz0bvJqEKwFnHPhyphenhyphent2nNFtH2oSZNGwhPPCQEb1oDufRfQ3a0QuaZhnNwJcmwQXnRWgz_IpDq9c3jXla4ySbyhblINtOJchKIeVc6q2MEADCqkd8t3XxOlnbxARMW0_yubwHjBYyY/s640/2.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Due to Covid-19 a lot of projects have been terminated. How about your plans?<p> </p>
</b>Due to Pandemic many projects we want to accomplish are postponed. Hopefully, we will continue them in the coming days.</div><b><p> </p></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>
What are your future plans as an İkebana artist?</b></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">
I wrote a Project on the dissemination of Hanami: Japanese Flower Observation days in Turkey and as the Japanese Music and Arts Associaiton , we would like to raise awareness on the issue of respecting and protecting nature.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
In our fast forward technological society, we consume everything including our nature. We hardly ever take a look at our nature, we hardly ever observe the beauty lying in front of our eyes. We have created huge masses of cementand as a result of this, we as Turks cannot find a place to breathe in our cities. Gradually, while we are leaving nature, we produce generations who live on the internet and who cannot communicate. We need to love our nature. We need to go out with our families and friends to discover nature and observe the beauty of flowers so that we can enjoy our lives. If we cannot find the time for this, we can still buy flowers and arrange them. We know that new generations who respect nature, who follow nature will respect each other and form a more peaceful and balanced society.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
I have also written a book on that issue and would like to publish it soon. After the release of my new book, I intent to give seminars on the issue of raising awareness on nature.</div><p> </p>
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Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-17288837955940747392020-07-30T19:24:00.002+03:002023-10-21T20:20:53.668+03:00Online Japan Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbwH2BYsEXcji2liDsf_HaAAM284rQMuHJGTsUQvDpoIjBHLCHjzMyhOp9eKL8iJMn0d6mXB06iM7Y6lcKNcoR-w4Bxg-IJfBt4mQwldQCqT3eyuf5q1FuHv56P2B311_UzQny7xsJdk/s1440/mrg3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1440" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbwH2BYsEXcji2liDsf_HaAAM284rQMuHJGTsUQvDpoIjBHLCHjzMyhOp9eKL8iJMn0d6mXB06iM7Y6lcKNcoR-w4Bxg-IJfBt4mQwldQCqT3eyuf5q1FuHv56P2B311_UzQny7xsJdk/w640-h370/mrg3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aomori Yamada Lisesi <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title=""><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">Due to the extraordinary state of the world, this year you can watch the Japan men's rhythmic gymnastics competition online.</span></span></div><div><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">10 Junior and 20 High School teams will be selected among the teams who sent their videos until August 16, got the right to compete in the finals.</span></span></div><div><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title=""><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBirgz0g3Rrnif7HdRefBv5BR6zEHzergyvV8gtrWTTltiHQoIX3BSs93OkL5WwT5LjB11bxz52UbinJIGLS4zy-sQ6aJiVU3lIvaw6-r0H2KPrIc55i2GbtoPuQCwAmqp-wwUuMTmOk/s1080/mrg1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBirgz0g3Rrnif7HdRefBv5BR6zEHzergyvV8gtrWTTltiHQoIX3BSs93OkL5WwT5LjB11bxz52UbinJIGLS4zy-sQ6aJiVU3lIvaw6-r0H2KPrIc55i2GbtoPuQCwAmqp-wwUuMTmOk/w640-h480/mrg1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ibara Lisesi - Resim özel izinle kullanılmaktadır.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>
<p><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">With the cancellation of the most prestigious high school gymnastics competitions due to COVID-19, the men's rhythmic gymnastics championship will take place online this year.<br />You can watch the Junior team finals between 16:30 - 18:00 on Japan time zone on September 12th, and high school finals between 13:00 - 16:00, on September 13th on Japan time zone.</span></span></p><p>You can watch at the link below;<br /><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title=""></span></span><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title=""></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.live-link.life/mrgonline">https://www.live-link.life/mrgonline</a></p>
<p>If you like to learn more about Japan men's <span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">rhythmic gymnastics you can read the interview from <a href="http://www.authorburcu.com/2019/11/interview-with-sarah-hodge-about-japans.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpc1jGn25zYCltWup_E9LTyKf8tMLNlVM4xD3OqcWoY-fkCvVdlOw-dkqt04OtfMFTOolbV0lWgdxRu9Rttv3oQdaRJDg340eBiwbnhb6Rp4tKudEpyKSFuhwrMh5hLwDSl8ODAuaaQYc/s1080/mrg2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1080" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpc1jGn25zYCltWup_E9LTyKf8tMLNlVM4xD3OqcWoY-fkCvVdlOw-dkqt04OtfMFTOolbV0lWgdxRu9Rttv3oQdaRJDg340eBiwbnhb6Rp4tKudEpyKSFuhwrMh5hLwDSl8ODAuaaQYc/w640-h360/mrg2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ibara Lisesi - <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>
<p>You can watch Natori High School men's <span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span title="">rhythmic gymnasts' </span></span>performance from this video and learn more about these talented gymnasts.<br /></p>
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</div><div>Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/ouenMRG">OuenMRG</a> for the translation and photos.</div>Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-31412000482419510422020-07-09T14:07:00.000+03:002020-07-09T14:08:48.899+03:00You Are Invited to Tea Ceremony at Nara, Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWk9fYx1GG6c48JRsJI2IhFUaUPGE4qDEple7LGBmrASUwI-6rWmRSxuNtNCnJZe-Ba-o0JQSj2l4vNr9ORMo1XbaYeEVKJOgr6A7Q2oC1lR4Dg4X9dpurui21IOrlaeds9ZfHdq51EBRk/s1600/6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1600" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWk9fYx1GG6c48JRsJI2IhFUaUPGE4qDEple7LGBmrASUwI-6rWmRSxuNtNCnJZe-Ba-o0JQSj2l4vNr9ORMo1XbaYeEVKJOgr6A7Q2oC1lR4Dg4X9dpurui21IOrlaeds9ZfHdq51EBRk/w640-h340/6.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nara City was declared as the first permanent capital of Japan in 710 but lost this title to Kyoto only 75 years later. Apart from the eight Unesco World Heritage Sites (famous ones are Kofukuji and Daibutu "Great Buddha"), one of the things that make this city special for tourists is more than 1200 deers living in Nara Park.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
Yesterday, to do something different from other days, I attended the online tea ceremony organized by Nara Visitor Center in Nara city. Those who are keen on Japanese culture would know how important the tea ceremony is for Japanese people. Although some people may think that naturally, I will have an interest and knowledge in the tea habits of other cultures because I am a Turk, I would like to state that I am a coffee person and I am quite foreign to the tea habits of the far eastern cultures that I have been interested in for the last five years. So this experience was very interesting for me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
This is a new opportunity that comes with travel restrictions for those who love Japanese culture around the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicM1NkRwtgwve5rM2X6XcbQWLavLMRGxPXYkTGQM0iqGatXHjOKl6hRhMTjz0iAEXXWKGrsbRCGs9UzuBNgDHYS5EbDbB6-eI4GS8gqSZQsdZGZanGL3L2W6I6hyphenhyphenliwOZeEdwEQhijfvVh/s945/2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="945" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicM1NkRwtgwve5rM2X6XcbQWLavLMRGxPXYkTGQM0iqGatXHjOKl6hRhMTjz0iAEXXWKGrsbRCGs9UzuBNgDHYS5EbDbB6-eI4GS8gqSZQsdZGZanGL3L2W6I6hyphenhyphenliwOZeEdwEQhijfvVh/w640-h480/2.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
I booked this event two days ago. In this free event which lasted for 45 minutes, they gave information about the tea ceremony, the preparation of the tea, and the location where the tea ceremony took place. There were two Japanese ladies with kimonos who were speaking in English under the face masks. Our host was very cheerful and humorous, and explained the tea ceremony while the lady from the shop called "Chiyonoya-Takemura" display the tea ceremony. There were 10 participants if I am not mistaken, and the questions of the participants were answered sincerely one by one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
I would like to share some of the information I learned during this event with you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8y7rBFQFXTZD1fkhZX1ckihJmCum76nxvHJCnVKmfBOoubC2LzuJl1_yppkwsQ1U_t_tn1bVjlQgNvL5tU7XuASa4lVjVonRyCwSByFCmRN-dT1d6V7FQ-AtOsQ4Clp3xwk42BWYxh8B/s1600/7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="1600" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8y7rBFQFXTZD1fkhZX1ckihJmCum76nxvHJCnVKmfBOoubC2LzuJl1_yppkwsQ1U_t_tn1bVjlQgNvL5tU7XuASa4lVjVonRyCwSByFCmRN-dT1d6V7FQ-AtOsQ4Clp3xwk42BWYxh8B/w640-h342/7.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
When the tea is served, first of all, you start with eating the sweets. <br />
I learned that the person who demonstrates the tea ceremony is from the shop where the sweets were sold. The sweets were called “Dry jelly sweets” sold in the Chiyonoya-Takemura shop on Higashimuki shopping street near Kintetsu Nara Station. The colors and shapes of the sweets are varied according to the season. Prices were around 70 yen to 100 yen per piece.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvig6rtTjEj2C8pYB8TGM2taqvC5PBIjNeA-lLz_8cufe9loyRsrrK0ciYi36WrSgnzCcd9tyx6AUD0WtNMs1_Rh2yaUUb4Pl3gQfYt-W-GidmS5YZWm9va1sCtIAdASpbcCfNCVKOxprL/s960/3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="960" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvig6rtTjEj2C8pYB8TGM2taqvC5PBIjNeA-lLz_8cufe9loyRsrrK0ciYi36WrSgnzCcd9tyx6AUD0WtNMs1_Rh2yaUUb4Pl3gQfYt-W-GidmS5YZWm9va1sCtIAdASpbcCfNCVKOxprL/w640-h544/3.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
Speaking of the fact that the sweets are suitable to be eaten on a white tissue, our host chose to taste the strawberry ones because she loves strawberries. Later she asked why the tea tastes different. We learned that this was due to the tea whisker made of bamboo.
After the tea ceremony which was shown from two different angles and the first round of questions were answered, the event continued from the tatami-paved room to a room with a table. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPOyUE7gaEDKb4qWDIN1SpYub5kvU4gDTOnUwd-coACf2-8QSYfAA6Ezlp6-Wy5siAXYfWOpgSmFcM4vkdewstV478_th-saYyfTLdxI9GY-Fil3kXl_2D2NGHySoC9Mtb76PEFLk-Q8T/s960/1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPOyUE7gaEDKb4qWDIN1SpYub5kvU4gDTOnUwd-coACf2-8QSYfAA6Ezlp6-Wy5siAXYfWOpgSmFcM4vkdewstV478_th-saYyfTLdxI9GY-Fil3kXl_2D2NGHySoC9Mtb76PEFLk-Q8T/w512-h640/1.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="512" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before the event ended, we had the chance to see Kofukuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site which was moved from Kyoto to Nara in 710, and was informed about the history of the man-made pond near the center.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
You can attend this online tea ceremony, which they intend to do twice a month, through the Nara Visitor Center's website and make a reservation.<a href="https://www.sarusawa.nara.jp" target="_blank">(https://www.sarusawa.nara.jp)</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvItt7_LTh473AzMgI6KDuVXkHw2EGI9vKIpENMji-mYbj7CHP2inxvl752kppktKy04zl59OWKde1XW864IT5ZcTNGw5UGEfpF6XA_myw3ULe7OQOe_sv7Lk7Yjx3C4t8mrigqjerJCE/s1600/4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" border="0" data-original-height="1380" data-original-width="1600" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvItt7_LTh473AzMgI6KDuVXkHw2EGI9vKIpENMji-mYbj7CHP2inxvl752kppktKy04zl59OWKde1XW864IT5ZcTNGw5UGEfpF6XA_myw3ULe7OQOe_sv7Lk7Yjx3C4t8mrigqjerJCE/w640-h552/4.jpeg" title="Photo courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nara Visitor Center is also a place where you can stay when you visit Nara. During your visit, you can participate in free mini-events, rent a bicycle, or make the most suitable tour packages for you. You can also get information in English, Chinese or Korean from the tourist information office in Nara Visitor Center & Inn.<br /></div>
<div><br /></div><div>Photos courtesy of Nara Visitor Center & Inn <a href="https://www.sarusawa.nara.jp" target="_blank">(https://www.sarusawa.nara.jp)</a><br /></div>Facebook Page of Nara Visitor Center & Inn (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/naravisitorcenterandinn" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/naravisitorcenterandinn</a>)<br />Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-2653801582993724202020-06-14T17:33:00.002+03:002020-06-15T10:53:02.597+03:00Interview: Professional Kimono Dresser Mio Zenmosa<p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXt7tOIKnrrZpjq3UDaEN_TeQQnfNrZvic-HeWwkWlyQuz4hBEqIZ0O03tkdoA93zxXABRhRMS3aDwWpEQVj_FeEb4A7IXRFVgcIo-jxTJDYRBKAr3D1DWGgy_m5pkZPu4FDsF7JxIt4uQ/s3264/two-women-in-yukata-near-market-1217579.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXt7tOIKnrrZpjq3UDaEN_TeQQnfNrZvic-HeWwkWlyQuz4hBEqIZ0O03tkdoA93zxXABRhRMS3aDwWpEQVj_FeEb4A7IXRFVgcIo-jxTJDYRBKAr3D1DWGgy_m5pkZPu4FDsF7JxIt4uQ/w300-h400/two-women-in-yukata-near-market-1217579.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Summer has come. This normally means more colorful festivals for Japan and foreigners like me, that reminds colorful beautiful Yukata and Kimono. Today my guest is my good friend Mio Zenmosa who is a </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="st">licensed</span> kimono dresser. She will tell us about the history of Kimono wearing.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhU5OTu67oMfrNtlh2OrbJjG3V5levrfOBx38rGjswfCtAlQQq8uqhZQ7dcETIFCYbslfofrPdGEW0xd7lK6RHqY508yHnyk6x1qyG__C7aLQvryzBbg2iyUWrIXEsUiOnw-cGEfhGPhF/s1080/mio_zenmosa.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhU5OTu67oMfrNtlh2OrbJjG3V5levrfOBx38rGjswfCtAlQQq8uqhZQ7dcETIFCYbslfofrPdGEW0xd7lK6RHqY508yHnyk6x1qyG__C7aLQvryzBbg2iyUWrIXEsUiOnw-cGEfhGPhF/s320/mio_zenmosa.png" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu:</b> Can you tell us a little about kimono history and over the years does it changed any?</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Mio: </b>First of all, kimono means cloths in Japanese. But somewhere along the way, we take kimono as Japanese traditional textile.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Ancient people wore simple fabric to cover their bodies and tied to fasten the fabric.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Since about 794, people came up with the basic style of kimono.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In winter, they layered over some kimonos. In summer they change the fabric to thin cotton or hemp. It led to being fashion style eventually.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Since 1192, not only women but also men liked to wear colorful kimono. People were enjoying kimono fashion.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Since 1853, after Japan started to import and export with America, Japan became to be affected by foreign countries, so the government demanded citizens to wear western-style clothes when they went to public places.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">People liked to wear western-style because it was easy to wear, move, and a representative of modern fashion. and eventually, kimono has become something which is worn on special occasions such as party, going out, festivals.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqW5St_qO4JQ6xTTNYJJP9aE56tVR6DHPCXgJes5W83JBCpWCvQow8U3EzCXoEpdBr9N-ok1G_FlbefWwpYUvkX3Ftiuq4_je8BviMIN1QH0GmMBaAaJlwaDuFA4mb13T7yWkWt9G_yJi/s940/obi.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqW5St_qO4JQ6xTTNYJJP9aE56tVR6DHPCXgJes5W83JBCpWCvQow8U3EzCXoEpdBr9N-ok1G_FlbefWwpYUvkX3Ftiuq4_je8BviMIN1QH0GmMBaAaJlwaDuFA4mb13T7yWkWt9G_yJi/w640-h536/obi.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu:</b> There are professional kimono dressers like you who get a diploma/certificate called </span><i style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Omenjyou</span></i><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">. what kind of training does a person get to learn how to dress a person in a kimono?</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Mio:</b> There are some schools to learn how to wear, how to put on kimono in Japan. In my case, I went to a school once or twice a week for about 5 years. Now I have all of Omenjyo(qualifications) from bridal wear to Jyunihitoe.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu:</b> What’s the difference between kimono and yukata? I heard Yukata originally for home-usage. Then became popular for summer times.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Mio:</b> Yes, Yukata was actually for noble people including emperor to use while taking a bath.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Some people took care of them while they were having a bath. They couldn’t be naked in front of them because they were nobles.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Eventually, ordinary people also started to wear yukata as a pajama. So, ancient people can’t go out in yukata once upon a time.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdOgbHxs-DquNgjoJhphN8W_gSZiM4xLyZMDtuX-vw48pu_77jDgwipddGsjrseYuCjkeN9C4z8_nkm3yZeAveS46zp9e1J44_dUfMQunHGYubZy-Clo3leCpYFLfeeEl9fm1xBW4M2Vw/s940/3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdOgbHxs-DquNgjoJhphN8W_gSZiM4xLyZMDtuX-vw48pu_77jDgwipddGsjrseYuCjkeN9C4z8_nkm3yZeAveS46zp9e1J44_dUfMQunHGYubZy-Clo3leCpYFLfeeEl9fm1xBW4M2Vw/w640-h536/3.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>There are special kimono for special occasions, right? Can you give us some information about them? What they are called and what are the differences from daily used kimono? And also does patterns and colors on kimono have any special meanings?</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hdjk7z5dsh-cYn4x7vlitpVu4PQThv91J7zRT3uSYqJaz6_GlBb_xO8SUKrzirSZ1tbvjUVNnrHbdhPiLw3vDaFY_R3-IpBRTAQkXF6SfLEfjPOccRkflPDFx3svSE186J2OE38SiHPP/s940/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hdjk7z5dsh-cYn4x7vlitpVu4PQThv91J7zRT3uSYqJaz6_GlBb_xO8SUKrzirSZ1tbvjUVNnrHbdhPiLw3vDaFY_R3-IpBRTAQkXF6SfLEfjPOccRkflPDFx3svSE186J2OE38SiHPP/w640-h536/1.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Mio:</b> In modern times, kimono has 4 patterns;</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><u>Homongi</u></b>…People wear it when they go to a public place such as wedding ceremonies, or parties.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">It is made like a ‘one picture’; Even though kimono has many stitches, kimono craft people must sew it like a whole one picture.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNPLWFgFF1T2c-2UJS4tVMfXHZVoP42lTPG72-wPJk9q4c4s47GYwMrP4oKKCg_yHmMjkur0J-gouqh50vpKEAdgv3CCfl1-eZLfWWx0WjHCkqXxB6oUmhCGqkV8KTeCzI4znsFciaaI9x/s940/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNPLWFgFF1T2c-2UJS4tVMfXHZVoP42lTPG72-wPJk9q4c4s47GYwMrP4oKKCg_yHmMjkur0J-gouqh50vpKEAdgv3CCfl1-eZLfWWx0WjHCkqXxB6oUmhCGqkV8KTeCzI4znsFciaaI9x/w640-h536/2.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Furisode is also one of the Homongi.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></u></b></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><u>Iromuji…</u></b>This is also for public places like wedding ceremony, tea ceremony. It is made with only 1 color.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68Zn-DUpmUWpKzg3PxrDQdwwNyq-VFbn2Gz4-U5TITvTDEq8R4TeJuToF0LNaHXxhNhr1-z0fT1VKKD7qBC5TCr96aUWpQsuVDoPBVD_GKu7n-_-Cs1LYJgM_x3UoypWbtJcw66xBsQet/s940/6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68Zn-DUpmUWpKzg3PxrDQdwwNyq-VFbn2Gz4-U5TITvTDEq8R4TeJuToF0LNaHXxhNhr1-z0fT1VKKD7qBC5TCr96aUWpQsuVDoPBVD_GKu7n-_-Cs1LYJgM_x3UoypWbtJcw66xBsQet/w640-h536/6.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><u>Komon・・・</u></b>This is the very convenient traditional kimono style. People wear them like normal clothing.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u></u></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzvcrY8AymiaOfdwR_DPyS9IVUFtWrNG-BmcsYNxyJ5hzn2Z2xH4YdJ7RcF2EPK6qkqeCHjiUVUZ_1rfq5GoCggfIZZYTb4rU4JzNw4WxU5iJ74iohM35ee6OcAR74Rgz7IhAnj-yuoet/s940/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzvcrY8AymiaOfdwR_DPyS9IVUFtWrNG-BmcsYNxyJ5hzn2Z2xH4YdJ7RcF2EPK6qkqeCHjiUVUZ_1rfq5GoCggfIZZYTb4rU4JzNw4WxU5iJ74iohM35ee6OcAR74Rgz7IhAnj-yuoet/w640-h536/4.png" width="640" /></a></u></div><u><b><br /></b></u><p></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u><b>Yukata…</b></u>It is for the summer festival, especially among young people. There are fewer people who know it was basically pajama in Japan.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">People can enjoy color whenever they like. But when a funeral is held, people must wear a black one.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu: </b>Empress wore a special kimono at the ceremony of Enthronement which is called Junihitoe. 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It was in fashion only for prestige class females around 900.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span class="st"><i>jūni </i></span>means 12. They wear 12 colorful kimonos and dressed up.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Ö.Burcu:</b> Also the accessory used with kimono is important, right? 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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Lately, in this lockdown, I have been watching Korean dramas and now I have a new hobby which is to find the filming locations of some of my favorite Korean dramas. I decided to share them with you. Today I will talk about one of my favorite k-drama W: Two Worlds Apart. it's broadcasted in 2016 but recently I watched it on Netflix.</span></div>
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Lee Jong-Suk, Han Hyo-Joo, Jung Eugene, Lee Si-Un is playing. This will be a spoiler but... This is the second time I saw Lee Jong-Suk and Jung Eugene together and again poor female character had a crush on Jong-Suk's character and again there is unrequited love. I wonder if the directors like Eugene playing the side-kick with Lee Jong-Suk and will we be able to see them together again in the future dramas. Anyway, let's get back to the main topic, which is... Locations:</span></div>
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Mainly This drama took place in three places, Hotel where male character stays, Hospital where the female character works, and the female character's father's house. I am still looking for the place where the father's house is but first let's start with the hospital.</span></div>
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First scene starts with Kang Chul's tournament and it looks like it took place in Goyang Stadium. Recently that place known as where Run BTS program has been shot.</div>
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I find books in movies really interesting so after seeing this book I made a research and find a video about this book and it's illustrator. I am surprise to see that it's even published in Turkish in 2018, you may find in your hometown bookstore with the name "Love Is: Puuung's Illustration of Love".</div>
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That's all for now. If you know any other filming location of W or interesting korean dramas to watch let me know in the comment below. <br />
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Sources: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/BelleessenceSeoul">Belle-Essence Seoul Hotel Facebook Page</a>, <a href="https://www.theskyfarm.co.kr/broadcast">skyfarm</a>, <a href="https://koreandramaland.com/">Korean DramaLand,</a> Netflix W, <a href="https://m.blog.naver.com/kyesj/220798820782">Naver Blog,</a> </div>
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Today, I will introduce you to a program in Nagasaki, Japan. Our guest is Yoko Arinaga, director of the "NAGASAKI WELLNESS" program.</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga: </b>NAGASAKI WELLNESS is a project in Ai international medical research institute. We started this project as a social business, not for a profit purpose.<br />
The therapists who want to be qualified as members were given the tailor-made English support package including the consultation on making a unique program, English scenario for their program, training for English and interpretation app, and other necessary English items such as intake and Informed consent forms.</div>
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Then they need to pass the evaluation by non-Japanese in their program. After qualified as a member, we support them in the NW group, for example, showing their program and movie on our site, deputizing reservation, inquiry, and payment, English training, and advertisement with free of charge. As a member, they need to pay only 10,000Yen for a year.</div>
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Currently, 4 owners are qualified. We have Kampo cuisine, Shiatsu massage, Reiki healing massage and Yoni steam programs. Additionally, tea ceremony, calligraphy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, photogenic photography, and more programs are coming soon.</div>
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<b>Ö.Burcu:</b> You serve as a Reiki master and masseuse in the program. I have read compliment comments from customers about you. To which customers you will recommend using Reiki and massage services?</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga:</b> Anyone can get a benefit from reiki even the ones that have no problem with their physical or psychological health. They can enhance their health by practicing reiki. It is like meditation, prayer, or mindfulness. I practice reiki every night and send it remotely to my friend and family. I feel content, grateful for everything I have and feel the existence of loved ones by practicing reiki.</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga:</b> The answer below is from a Kampo therapest(^_^) :</div>
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<i>"Thank you for your interest in our “Kampo cuisine”. The food we can serve in our Pharmacy is brown rice porridge, which will help your gut, because it is easy to digest but has enough nutrition. When you travel to foreign countries, you tend to eat more than enough or always have to get used to new food?
Your gut must work hard and you may feel stress or fatigue. In fact, to digest much need lots of energy. We also serve Japanese pickles, which are fermented foods and also help to digest. We believe that brown rice porridge and pickles are very Japanese dish and foreigners would enjoy it.
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<b>Yoko Arinaga: </b>It is important for us anyone can access any place. If someone wants to access us, there should not be any barrier. Everyone has a right to have our treatment, and we do our best for them. If someone lives too far, sometimes I send remote reiki to them. Or Kampo therapist can give advice on zoom.</div>
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<b>Ö.Burcu:</b> In your program it is not only about healing the body inside by techniques such as “Kampo cuisine” and “Reiki”, but also program has "japanail" and “massage” that will make your body look beautiful outside so mentally we can feel better too. When people finish their holidays in Nagasaki, they can go back completely renewed. Do you have any other businesses like “japanail” in your program or are there any planning to join in the future?</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga:</b> Beauty is another aspect of our project besides health. We currently close Japanail as the owner couldn’t pass our evaluation due to her English ability. But we are recruiting the manicurists for this program. There are so many manicurists everywhere in Japan, but the problem is their communication skill.</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga:</b> This is a good question! Yes, we want to recommend the best program after hearing the customer’s preference. We are like a concierge in Nagasaki,we can organize the tailor-made package which is not on our website too.</div>
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<b>Ö.Burcu: </b>I guess the businesses in the NAGASAKI WELLNESS program offer their services in their own shops instead of gathering in one center, right? And are they work with the Appointment system?</div>
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<b>Yoko Arinaga:</b> That is right. Clients must go to each salon to have treatment. It seems inconvenient for customers but this is why we can have more and more quality and various wellness program in our group. And they are more responsible for their treatment compared to the therapists who are hired in an institution.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Few days ago I watched a TEDx youtube seminar about learning a second language in six months and in that video I noticed that I am already doing few things they mentioned there. One of the important thing is to “focus on language content that is relevant to you” and last year I bought few Detective Manga volumes in Japanese from <a href="https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/aff/click.cgi/PytJTGW7Lok/6029/A757846/" target="_blank">**CDJAPAN**</a>
which contains my favorite episodes of Conan anime. With this I already know the general story of the volume and also I am willing to understand and read it because I love Conan in manga version, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another good thing about Detective Conan manga is it has furigana in it. So even if it’s difficult to understand the kanji I can read from hiragana near it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And also in that seminar they said that understanding the message is more important than trying to understand the sentence word by word when you try learning a language. This happens to me especially when I watch a Japanese movie or a drama without a sub. I have few dvds I bought from <a href="https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/aff/click.cgi/PytJTGW7Lok/6029/A757846/" target="_blank">**CDJAPAN**</a>
before and they don’t have English subtitle or any language I know but in time I noticed that I started to understand the topic they are talking about. Now even sometimes I enjoy just listening Japanese conversations and trying to understand what they are talking about. Anyway if we return to our subject, when trying to read this Conan manga I decided not to force myself on the vocabularies I am having difficult to,just focus on the message and enjoy reading it. But still writing some of the vocabularies for creating my own dictionary. This is how I do so far:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Learning Japanese as a second foreign language isn’t easy for me. But I am determined to make it to be fun. There are other mangas which use furigana as far as I learn these are some of it; One Piece, Shingeki no Kyojin, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Bleach, Death Note...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or you can decide to start reading a manga for beginner levels like Pokeamon or Doreamon maybe. It depends on your taste and motivation. For me trying to read a manga volume which contains Okiya Subaru is more motivating then anything (^_^)</span></div>
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Kohei Shiozawa, teacher of the NPO-Yakumaru-Jigen-Ryu Kenshokai school in Tokyo, has been doing this martial art for 13 years. About 3 years ago, he took over the presidency of the school from Yasuo Yakumaru, 14th generation Yakumaru and the heir of Jigen ryu. Currently, there are about 30 trainee at his school in Tokyo. They perform in many events during the year.</div>
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Let's listen to the history of Jigen Ryu from the teacher:</div>
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“Jigen-Ryu was born in Satsuma, in the southern part of Kyushu, now known as Kagoshima. Since then, it has survived from generation to generation with the Yakumaru family. The Satsuma is known for the tradition of the "Spartan". The Satsuma Samurai, also known as Hayato, were the bravest fighters in Japan, and feared by everyone. Martial arts were also their most successful skills. There are many martial arts schools in Satsuma. The oldest Yakumaru-Jigen-Ryu school was in the Heian period (794-1192). ”</div>
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“Jigen-ryu is declared the official martial art by the Feudal lord of Satsuma in the second half of the Edo period. After that, students of the school begin to appear in many important events in Japanese history. The Meiji restoration, the modern revolution in Japanese history, was also led by several of the leaders of the Jigen Ryu school. That is why even now we say that Kagoshima was mostly led by the spirit of the modern revolution Jigen-Ryu.” says Kohei Shiozawa.</div>
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We wonder and ask about the difference between Jigen-ryu and other swordsmanship schools. He starts his speech by saying “There are schools for more than 200 in Japan” and states that “The characteristic feature of Jigen-Ryu is in practice” and he continues </div>
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“We follow these rules:</div>
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1- We do not have any protection methods.</div>
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2- The priority of our skill is to “kill the enemy in one blow”.</div>
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3- Our training based on a scenario which takes place on the battlefield surrounded by enemies.</div>
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We do not have a complicated education method as we believe that repetitive basic education is the most effective way to prepare for real war mentally and physically.</div>
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We have a word called 薩摩 の 鞘 折 れ. (When the Satsuma Samurai break their sword sheaths when they pull their weapons.) This means once they pull their weapons, the Satsuma samurai fight to die.</div>
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Here is Yakumaru-Jgen Ryu with such a warrior belief.” </div>
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And he explains to us the unique educational system called "Goju-Kyoiko" in Satsuma. “Igoju-Kyoiku is a unique training system realized by the samurai class in Satsuma. The basis of this education is based on “no teacher”. Students living in the same area form a group. These are independent communities. People over the age of 15 are responsible for leadership and training in this community. They spend the whole day together. Subjects of the Trainings in Goju-Kyoiku are (Goju is the name of the region in Town);</div>
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1- Reading</div>
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This training was a very strict training for young children.</div>
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In Edo period, you know that samurai constantly carry swords in their belts, so it would be the most important lesson to use them in Goju-Kyoiku.</div>
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Especially since Yakumaru-Jigen-ryu Satsuma is a symbolic style of sword masters, every family had their own educational tools and they were trained every day. ”</div>
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As in many parts of the world, "bullying" is a problem in Japan. When we asked if martial arts like Jigen-Ryu can solve social problems like this in the world, we got the following answer:</div>
“Some traditional martial arts are taught / promoted in Japanese schools today, like Kendo and Judo. Unfortunately, bullying has become a serious problem in Japan. By learning martial arts, people learn to respect each other and how to behave. I hope today's children can learn these traditional behaviors with traditional martial arts. ”<br />
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We wonder if the Jigen Ryu practices have changed over time. “Today's Jigen-Ryu practices are the same as those of the old times.” says Teacher Kohei Shiozawa. “I still think that our ancestors' practice methods are still the most logical and effective. In other words, if we change the method, we lose a lot of important things and this no longer be “Jigen – Ryu”. Of course, there is a lot of difference between now and old time. At the time of Edo, the daily training was the task of a Satsuma Samurai. We are now living a modern life. That's why we don't have time to practice every day, but we come together once or twice a week to train for 90 minutes. ”</div>
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“By the way, there are female students in our school, although they are few in number. For example, the youngest is 6 years old! We also have a couple who get married and their child is also participating in the trainings. I think that women's participation in these exercises is an important factor for this martial art to last until modern times. ” says the teacher.</div>
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We ask if there is a ranking system in Jigen-Ryu as in other martial arts. "The original Yakumaru-Jigen-Ryu does not have a ranking system," he answers. "The teachers used to say they could graduate when they participated in a real war and killed the enemy."</div>
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“However, today there is a ranking system to motivate students. We give the title of “Kai-Den” to students who can complete 10 years of training. ” he adds.</div>
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We want to learn how Jigen-Ryu schools, a non-profit organization, can be supported. “Yakumaru-Jigen-Ryu-Kenshokai has 2 schools. One is in Kagoshima and the other is in Tokyo. Some of the expenses are covered by the demonstrations and lectures we held at the events. However, many activities are based on students' volunteer work. Our policy is not to beg for help, but sometimes people can send us help in the form of clothes, and swords that we can use in training instead of money. We accept such gifts willingly. I think this is quite admirable because money is not important in maintaining such a tradition may lie in the behind of this thought. ” he says.</div>
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Finally, we ask, wondering where we can watch their performances. Even if they don’t have a Youtube channel, he talks about the movie "Vice Japan Project" they made for Google. And he shares social media account (https://www.facebook.com/yakumarujigenryu/) and website with us. (https://www.yakumarujigenryu.com/) and adds, “If foreigners want to participate in our education, they can contact us through our e-mail address, website or social media account. Almost all of our performances are closed to the audience, but we sometimes attend public shows. If there is such an event, we make an announcement on our page. We always want to see people who are interested in our tradition and events. If you have the opportunity, come and watch us! ”. </div>
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Everyone, today I will be talking about events that will take place in Hokuei
town, Japan. People who follow my page probably know that I am a Detective
Conan fan and this town is really important for me, it’s like my personal
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since half of the events I am going to talk about is about Detective Conan!
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> You can apply this marathon and in the end,
you can eat Hokuei’s famous Daiei Watermelon as much as you like. ( </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the end “suika” means
watermelon :) )</span> The
application period for the 33rd Hokuei Suika-Nagaimo Marathon will open on
Monday, March 16, 2020. The marathon will take place on the 14th of June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> At the end of the marathon, participants can
enjoy all-you-can-eat watermelon and nagaimo soup. In this video you can learn about the process of the watermelon
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conan's
House Beika Shopping Street will celebrate its 3rd anniversary on Wednesday,
March 18, 2020! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To
show their appreciation, they will be giving out an original Detective
Conan keychain to the first 3,000 customers on Saturday, March 14 who purchase
500 yen or more at the stores located on Beika Shopping Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There
will be 2020-2021 Gosho Aoyama Detective Conan Special Original Drawings
Exhibition! Many original drawings of Detective Conan will be released!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> A special exhibition showcasing this Detective
Conan suitcase used by anime producer Mr. Michihiko Suwa will be on display
from March 3 (Tue) to March 29 (Sun) at Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory in
"Conan The Collection" (1F).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">These
are a summary of the events that will be happening in the Conan Town. If you
want to learn more and visit during these events don’t forget to check the
official page of the town or social media accounts of hokuei.tottori (http://www.e-hokuei.net/) .</span></div>
Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-59461751888934276392020-02-18T11:33:00.000+03:002020-02-18T21:20:35.559+03:00Interview: The representative of Japanese Music In Turkey: Atsuko Suetomi<h2>
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my page! Can you tell my readers about yourself?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hi, I'm
Atsuko Suetomi and I play the Japanese traditional instrument <i>koto</i>. I visited many countries to give <i>koto</i>
concerts. The first time I came to Turkey was in 2005 and I participated in the concerts which were organized by the Japanese Embassy, Istanbul
Consulate General of Japan, municipalities and Turkish Japanese Friendship
Association. I was fascinated by Anatolia with thousands of
years of civilization, culture, art, and music.I
was also impressed with the warm hospitality and kindness of the people. And then I wanted to live in Turkey to knock on the door to a new
world of music with the fusion between <i>koto</i> and Anatolia. I am
lucky that I’ve been living in Istanbul since 2007. Since then, I have been
invited to give concerts with valuable artists and introduce
Japanese music in universities, schools, and associations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* How did
you start music?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I started my
music education with the piano, when I was 7 or 8 years old ... But I did not
continue because the piano teacher gave me a hard time... Then I started
playing <i>koto</i> thanks toa friend of mine who was
great at playing<i> koto</i>. <i>Koto</i> was a comfort to
me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Is there any special reason for choosing <i>koto</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
haven’t thought of that before, but I think it is because I love the sounds it
makes and they give great comfort in turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* You are
one of the most important artists who is representing Japan in Turkey. Why did
you choose to live in Turkey?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
strongly believe God brought me to Turkey! On the very first stride onto the
land of Turkey from a ramp at the airport, I realized, just my intuition, that this
place would become my second homeland. As an artist, Anatolian culture is a
fountain of energy that is necessary for me to be a musician.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* Music has
a transcultural effect on people. You had concerts with many different artists.
Is there a concert that affects you very much?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, I am grateful... for being able to give concerts with
precious artists, and do ing projects in Turkey... One of the concerts I can’t
forget is the one which took place for the 90th
anniversary of Turkey-Japan interstate relations board in 2014... it was
organized by the Turkish Japanese Foundation. It was a great concert with the
participation of the Japanese Embassy in Istanbul, and the Consulate General of
Japan in Istanbul and the support of Japanese companies. In the first part the kanun virtuoso Göksel Baktagir, the Ney master Eyüp Hamiş and I were on the stage. In the second
part of the concert the piano virtuoso Gülsin
Onay appeared on stage... It was a very colorful music festival ... While the
hall was held at Istanbul İş Sanat, I heard that the hall accommodates 700 people but more than 1000 people had gathered and some of them could not have entered the hall, for whom
sushi had been served at the entrance hall.JIKAD always surprises me by
organizing moving concerts. President of JIKAD Arzu Yücel has a great spirit
and she always provides exciting projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*You have many students, don't you? I heard you've also
started giving courses recently. Can you tell us about the
courses?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There are
dozens of koto students in Istanbul and a few in Ankara. They are in a
wide range of ages from 10 to 70 years old ... But just
a few of my students are studying in a routine, not all of them. I put up
“<span class="gmail-tlid-translation">Japanese music and arts association” at </span>the
T<span class="gmail-tlid-translation">urkish Japanese Foundation in Ankara</span>.
There sometimes is a <i>koto</i> workshop there. Also, <i>koto</i> classes held every week at the Japanese Art Center in Kadıköy
in Istanbul. Turkish students are practicing hard to play in a concert wearing
kimonos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">* <i>Koto</i>
is very similar to the qanun. When I was in high school, a friend of mine was learning to play qanun. I
remember the time she accompanied us in our choir and how she worked
systematically to get prepared for the concerts. How many hours per week do we need to practice to play<i> koto</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It is the
same as playing other instruments, the more you practice, the more you will be able to play. It will
also be more effective to practice continuously...So practicing 2 hours every day is m<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>ore effective than practicing one day for 6 hours in a week. But if you are
busy at work or school, you can also play <i>koto</i> or other instruments to
relax. Then you can have a joyful and enjoyable time with an instrument like
you are chatting with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In Feb 2020,
my new album called "The Way </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">道</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">" will
be released. I could not do a recording without being preoccupied with an
unusual collaboration with<i> koto</i> and jazz piano. A Turkish record company
offered us to receive our recording in the digital platform. I’d like you to
listen to Uzun ince bir yoldayim by Asik Veysel where <i>koto</i>
and jazz piano are collaborated. I’d also like to make a video of Turkish
scenery with healing<i> koto</i> music as background music. I hope to arrange
concerts where I can share a quite tiny space with customers who are enjoying
their tea time. At the same time, I’d like to be dedicated to playing in front
of people who are socially handicapped. I consider this is my lifework.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">It will always be remembered in the history of Turkish maritime that the fate of the Ertuğrul Frigate which is sent on a mission to Far East in 1889, had an important role in the development of Turkish-Japanese relations.</span></h2>
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On July 14th, 1889, the students of the Naval School started the journey to Japan Sea in order to learn how to use their theoretical knowledge at sea. They completed their mission in Japan.
While waiting for a suitable condition to go back, they decided to leave from the Port of Yokohama on September 15th, 1890, to avoid further casualties from the cholera outbreak in the area.
However, on September 16, due to the typhoon they caught on their way to Kobe, the ship was sunk by crashing to the rocks near the Kashinozaki Lighthouse. (74 people survived and 531 martyrs in Japanese waters.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Today, I would like to introduce you to someone who shares the importance of Turkish-Japanese relations with the young generations and everyone who is curious about it in the town of Kushimoto, where the Ertuğrul Frigate Martyrdom and Memorial are located. She is the president of the Kushimoto Turkish Culture Association, Ayşegül Ito.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Aysegül Ito: My name is Aysegül. I am from Aydın, Turkey. I graduated from the Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Japanese Language and Literature. After graduation, I worked in a Japanese-Turkish partnered company in Istanbul. Then, in April 2015, I started to work as the first Turk in Kushimoto Municipality. I married with a Japanese man in 2017, and in April 2018 I quit from my job because of my pregnancy. Now I look after my baby and I am the president of the association.</span></h2>
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Burcu: Can you tell us about the Turkish Culture Center?</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Aysegül Ito: Turkish Cultural Center was opened on 16th of September 2018 with the honors of our Tokyo Ambassador, Mr. Hasan Murat Mercan and Mr. Muhammed Aras, Imam of the Tokyo Mosque. In fact, our building is an old building right in front of the Turkish Museum, we always wanted to use this building, but the renovation would be very costly so we could not start. Our former president told this idea to our ambassador. Our ambassador immediately helped. Turkish craftsmen working in Nagoya came to renovate the building with their own hands, painted the kitchen and made a center for us. We opened the center at the same day with the Ertuğrul Frigate Commemoration Ceremonies. </span></h2>
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sell handmade braids, lace, Turkish tea and Turkish fruit juices in
Turkish center. We also exhibit old antiques and Turkish lamps which
were sent from the embassy. </span></h2>
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Burcu: Which activities can Japanese people
who are curious about the Turkish culture, attend at the association and at the
center? </h2>
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are opening the Turkish Cultural Center on holidays. But it may not be open
every week from Saturday to Sunday. The open hours are 10:00-15:00. We share the
open days of each month on our Facebook page. So before you come, look at our
facebook page, we would appreciate it. If requested in advance, our members can
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<span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the past years, we have had cooking classes
and Turkish language courses every month. However, we do not currently have any
active courses. We do not have a folk dance course either, but we dance with
the old team for once in every two weeks on Sundays.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We can consider opening a course if demand
arises in the future.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu: Does The Turkish Culture Center
organize any exhibitions or festivals? </span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo:<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/Kushimoto.Turkey&source=gmail&ust=1578234234535000&usg=AFQjCNEIz_QxVhWmno_mC_VSYKHHn4Jsew" href="https://www.facebook.com/Kushimoto.Turkey" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>Kushimoto.Turkey</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ayşegül Ito:</span></span> <span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, we organize festivals or events. Also, We
have a “simit” car. We also participate in events and sell simit.</span></span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo:<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/Kushimoto.Turkey&source=gmail&ust=1578234234535000&usg=AFQjCNEIz_QxVhWmno_mC_VSYKHHn4Jsew" href="https://www.facebook.com/Kushimoto.Turkey" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>Kushimoto.Turkey</a> </td></tr>
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Burcu: Which events do you participate as Kushimoto
Turkish culture Association?</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Ayşegül Ito: There are certain events in the
year we participate. For example; at the end of January every year we go to the
fire festival. In this festival, we are performing the Mersin Region Folk
Dances. Again, we perform folk dances at summer festivals every year. In
addition, we participate in various activities.</span></h2>
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Burcu: What can people do to support or how to
contribute to the Kushimoto Turkish culture association?</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Ayşegül Ito: People who want to support our
association can reach us from facebook. They can do things like events or
workshops that can promote Turkey, or they can send the items they make with their
own hands.</span></h2>
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Burcu: Could you tell us about the Turkish
Museum located near the Turkish Culture Center?</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Aysegül Ito:</span></span> <span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Turkish Museum is a museum of the
Municipality of Kushimoto. It is decorated with beautiful tulip motifs outside
of the museum building. It is a museum where you can learn the history of the Ertuğrul
</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Frigate</span><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> and the history of Turkish-Japanese friendship.</span></span></span></h2>
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Burcu: At which accounts people can follow
your activities such as festivals, courses, film screenings? </h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Aysegül Ito: Our most active page is our
facebook page.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As Kushimoto Turkish Culture Association, they
can find us immediately.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We want many people to like our page.</span></span></span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A city friend with Turkey, Kushimoto - Photo<a href="https://note.com/scaristory_eng/">: Yaoki Yashiro Archive </a></td></tr>
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Burcu: Finally, can you share your impressions
of the people in Kushimoto?</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="gmail-"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ayşegül Ito: Before coming to Kushimoto, I
loved the place I worked at. It was very difficult for me to leave my job and
come to Kushimoto, but since the day I came here, everyone has always been so
helpful to me, so warm that I started to say, 'Good thing that I came here'.
The people of Kushimoto really love the Turks. They never lost their sincerity
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visit here. Every person who comes here gets the feeling that they are in their
own countries. I want everyone to feel it.</span></span></span></h2>
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rhythmic gymnasts.</span></h2>
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dream jobs. He moved to Japan seven years ago and is now running a
Yokohama-based Cultural Festival Tourism Company. If you don't speak Japanese
but you want a real and unforgettable Japan holiday by experiencing interesting
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Özlem Burcu: Welcome to my page, Mr. Doğan. First of all, I must
say that you are doing an enviable job for a writer like me who loves researching
and concentrates on cultural exchange projects. The power of the festivals are
bringing people together and miraculously making them get closer. Is that what
happened to you? Can you tell us about your first festival?</span></h2>
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page. And thank you very much for the interview. I agree with you, the
traditional cultural festivals are an excellent opportunity. Especially in
Japan, which has a homogenous society that is closed to the outside world, they
are really a miracle as you mentioned. The first festival I attended was
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">小豆島 First festival I attended at Shodoshima - Taiko Matsuri </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I am apologizing from readers that I will begin from the
beginning. After falling in love with my wife in Izmir, we moved to Japan and
first lived in Tokyo for the first three years. Generally, when you are living
abroad, the period of getting used to the new country is between three and six
months. Japan is different. It was a very difficult process to adapt to Japan.
After a very busy process of learning Japanese after the age of thirty, and almost
immediately after that a career that nearly started from scratch. While I was
working in a 5 star hotel in Tokyo, I got a job offer from Setonaikai that is a
region famous for its olives in Japan and similarity to the Aegean region of
Turkey. In April we moved to Shodoshima, the largest island in the region. I
was involved in the reconstruction of a local group of hotels. We moved in
April, time passed, it was early September and still I couldn’t meet anyone on
this little island, I couldn’t socialize. When I brought it up with the boss, he
said that there was a local cultural festival and that it would be useful to
attend. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">深川水かけまつり Matsuri with my daughter, Sakura and my son, Kaya </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">It was my fourth year in the country, I didn't have much hope, but I
got up early on the morning of the Festival and went to the gathering area.
They mounted two thick poles with a length of ten meters to a wooden structure
horizontally from the left and right. There were four boys in it, the clothes
looked like our “janizary”, they were muttering a prayer and were beating in a
slow rhythm with the mallets in their hands. More than a hundred of men were taking
turns to carry this structure together on their shoulders. It weighed about two
tons. Anyone who saw me, thought I was an alien, looked at my face with a confused
expression, and I was more confused than them. What was that?!I was in shock!.
I didn’t understand the purpose of it, why it's done. After the first shock, I
introduced myself and started doing what they were doing. I started to carry
with them the structure they called “Taiko”. As the hours passed, I managed to
communicate with the people of the island who I couldn’t get close to for
months and even made proggress. In the afternoon there was almost nobody who
didn’t know who I was and many of them became my friends. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">小豆島 First festival I attended in Shodoshima</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">After the festival,
my life on the island gained another dimension. I was accepted, and known. Once
the people who ignored my greeting on the road, now calling me by my name. At a
dizzying speed I suddenly existed in this homogeneous and closed society. They
knew where I was from and my name now. It was an indescribable feeling and pleasure
for me.</span></h2>
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Özlem Burcu: Is the reason that you started this business because
of your experiences at the festival?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: Yes. I attended the festival again in the
second year. This time I knew everyone, and</span><span style="font-size: small; mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I was experienced, but I saw a group of six or seven people for the
first time. They didn’t greet me or even speak with me. I wondered and
investigated who these people were. I learned that they were part-time
employees who were called from another city for the festival. I was surprised. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">小豆島2nd year Shodoshima Taiko Matsuri</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The festival is passion, enthusiasm, purification,
forgetting, learning, joy, but I never thought it could be a part-time job.
Then that day I confronted the social and economic realities of present-day
Japan. Japan is a very old country, more than fifty percent of Japanese culture
will disappear in thirty years, as modern society is now urban and
sociologically new. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Then I said we should call for volunteers. They should have
fun and help the cultural festivals to continue. Japanese people from different
regions or tourists from inside or outside the country. I started getting
interested in Japanese festivals. Then I started researching and it turned into
a hobby, and one day the biggest airline in the country was knocking on my
door. They said they were planning to establish a Festival Tourism website and
wanted me as an advisor. Another one asked me to organize a tour. Interview
offers, and even national television programs... I have read dozens of books in
two years and attended nearly three hundred festivals. This is how SuperMatsuri
started its adventure in Japan.</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">上総一ノ宮十二社祭り TENGU</span></td></tr>
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Özlem Burcu: Can you give us information about SuperMatsuri? In
what porpose people can apply to your company?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: SuperMatsuri is a Cultural Festival Tour and
Event Organization company. It’s stillin its infancy. Our company consists of
me and two employees. We organize tours and activities for visitors interested
in Japan and Japanese culture, where they can experience festivals. We provide
Translation and Consultancy services to local public institutions and
organizations. In 2020, we will start organizing events to promote Japanese
Cultural Festivals and Traditional Handicraft products abroad. For example, we
will have Nippon Culture and Art Fair 2020 in İzmir Historical Gas Factory
Culture Center on May 30-31, 2020.</span></h2>
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Özlem Burcu: Japan is a country with plenty of festivals. What are
the most popular festivals by season?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: Yes, like you said Ms. Burcu, there are a lot
of festivals in this culture. Over 300,000 festivals. Except for the Obon
(extremely hot and humid season in July and August), several festivals are held
in Japan every weekend. The festivals are divided into seasons as you
mentioned. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In Summer, the Nebuta Festival in the city of Aomori that is
in the northern part of the country. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In Spring, Sakura (Cherry blossom watching and picnicking)
Festivals. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In Autumn, Omikoshi (Portable Shrine) at Kanda Shinto Shrine
in Tokyo and Danjiri Festival in Kishiwada in Osaka. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">秩父夜祭 chichibu Yomatsuri </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In winter, ChichibuYomatsuri in Chichibu City in
Saitama Province, north of Tokyo, and Somin Festival at Kokuseki Shrine in
Iwate Province, in the north of the country. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">These are world-knowned festivals that come to my mind right
now and many of them have also entered the list of UNESCO World Cultural
Heritage.</span></h2>
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Özlem Burcu: In which languages do you conduct your tours?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: We are making our tours in English, Japanese
and Turkish for now. We will be providing tour services in Chinese, French and
Spanish as soon as possible.</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">ふるさと祭り東京Haiya Odori</span></td></tr>
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Özlem Burcu: For example, I want to attend the Koshi Fire Festival
in March. When do you step in? What does the tour program cover?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: When you tell us about your wishes to
participate in any Festival, we request your identification and travel
information immediately. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In addition, we start our processing immediately after
completing our form which tells us about what stages of your travel you want
services from us. First of all, we inform your partners in the festival
organizing committee about your participation and experience. After approval,
our guests are informed about the conditions and details. When details of
travel and festival attendance are determined and agreed upon, the contract and
payment process takes place. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">牛深ハイヤTokyo Nihon Odori Festival </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I would like to mention here that each festival has its own
rules and conditions. Some organizations may be flexible, taking into account
the current conditions, but some festivals pay close attention to strict rules. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">As an example, Omikoshi (Portable Shrine) is carried on the
shoulders and in the past it was forbidden for women to participate or even
touch it, but now they can participate if they meet the minimum requirements
for women.</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2019.2.11 黒石寺蘇民祭 Somin Festival</span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Another example is
the Somin Festival. Certainly, women's participation is not possible.
Participants have to enter a strict VEGAN diet a week before the festival.</span></span></h2>
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Özlem Burcu: Tourists not only buy package tours, but they can
also prepare their own tour programs. Can you talk about the process?</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">寄居Samurai Festivali</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Mesut Doğan: In today's conditions, I think that package
tour sales and classic Tour operator working model are over. It is no longer
satisfactory, to give money to the agencies for small tour organizations where
visitors can simply make from their own smart phones. </span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">上総一ノ宮十二社祭りStewen from Hawaii and Me</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Visitors not only want to see, they also want to experience,
explore, challenge and immediately share on social media. In our model, our
visitors imform us the date they will visit, the number of people, the content
they want to see and experience. Then we create the tour program with our
visitors from the drafts we prepared. Our visitor pays us not for the train
ticket or the hotel where he will stay, but for our companionship, friendship,
experience and guidence. After agreeing on the details and plan with our guest,
we proceed to the contract and payment stage. After the payment process is
finished we accompany him on his journey to the end of the activity experience.</span></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">匝瑳市Çiba Mizukake Matsuri ( water festival and my first tour)</span></td></tr>
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Özlem Burcu: Thank you for the interview. I am sure that your
company's contribution to Japanese tourism will soon attract attention due to
the convenience they provide for foreign tourists.</span></h2><br />
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Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-71299998763265416962019-11-27T11:55:00.001+03:002023-10-21T20:09:47.956+03:00Interview: With Sarah Hodge About Japan's Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics (MRG)<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kokushikan Men’s RG sophomore Keisuke Tanaka
performing his stick routine at 2018 All-Japan Intercollegiate Championships (Photo:
Mitsuyoshi Akiyama / Ouen MRG)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You may know
today’s guest as “japantravelbug” from social media or read her articles about
Japanese papers like Tokyo Weekender. But today we will talk with Sarah Hodge
(a.k.a japantravelbug) about a topic she works hard to help people get to know
internationally... Men’s rhythmic gymnastics (MRG) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah Hodge a.k.a. japantravelbug</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b> Welcome to my page, Sarah! First,
can you introduce yourself to my readers?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: Hello Burcu, and thank you so much
for today’s interview!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ever since I
was a child, I had two goals: to become a writer, and to move to Japan. I’ve
been blessed to realize both.</span><br />
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I was always a prolific reader and writer even as a young child. I entered
several poetry and writing contests throughout elementary and high school and
published short stories and poems as an exchange student at a French university
in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My childhood
neighbors across the street and many of my elementary school classmates were
Japanese (my city has strong ties to the Japanese automotive industry), which
sparked a lifelong interest in all things Japan. I formally studied Japanese
language in high school and college and applied to the JET Programme (language
teaching exchange) in 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I taught
English in Japan for six months in 2010-2011 and have lived here since December
2015 as a full-time English teacher. In my spare time, I frequently travel,
take cooking classes, culture experiences including kimono dressing, tea
ceremony, and Zen meditation, and publish travel and culture articles for <b>Stars and Stripes</b> newspaper, <b>Tokyo Weekender</b> magazine, JNTO and
other websites and blogs.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b> Can you tell us the history of
Japan’s Men’s rhythmic gymnastics (MRG)
briefly?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: Men’s rhythmic gymnastics (MRG, in Japanese </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">男子新体操</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">) is a sports invented in Japan 70 years ago that combines
calisthenics and elements of Swedish, German, and Danish gymnastics. A
compulsory RG routine for boys and girls was introduced into Japanese schools
in the 1940s to promote fitness. MRG was made an official event at the National
Sports Festival held in 1947, and the All-Japan Intercollegiate Rhythmic
Gymnastics Championships started in 1949 (All-Japan Inter-High Championships
were introduced in 1952). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There are two variations of MRG, individual (where gymnasts
perform solo with one of four apparatus) and team, which focuses on tumbling,
flexibility, balance, and synchronization. Today there are nearly 2,000 men’s
rhythmic gymnasts active in Japan, from junior clubs through university level.
It’s also common for brothers in the same family to pursue MRG...there is even
a set of identical triplets that all are all rhythmic gymnasts!</span><span face=""helvetica" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s
important to note that although a handful of other countries including Russia
and Spain also practice men’s rhythmic gymnastics, there are significant
differences bewteen them and Japanese men’s RG. Also, men’s rhythmic gymnastics
is not currently recognized by gymnastics governing body FIG. As such, it is
not an officially recognized sport at the Olympics.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kokushikan Men’s RG senior Takuto
Kawahigashi (2019 team captain / 2019 Eastern Inter-College champion / 2019
All-Japan all-around champion ) at Kokushikan’s Tama Festival (Photo: Ouen MRG,
November 2019)</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b> What are the differences or
difficulties between team version and individual MRG? I read in one of your
articles that individual men’s rhythmic gymnastics is not as well known as team
MRG. What could be the reason for it?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: Team MRG is better known
internationally as several top university teams like Aomori University (Aomori
City), Kokushikan University (Tokyo) and Hanazono University (Kyoto) are
frequently invited to perform overseas, but there are fewer opportunities for
individual gymnasts to perform solo abroad unless they travel / perform with
the team. Team routines are performed without apparatus and are based on
synchronization and complicated crossovers and tumbling, so more difficult or
risky elements can be worth extra points in competitions. This also makes for
dramatic edge-of-the-seat moments for spectators as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Individual
routines feature one of four apparatus: stick, clubs, double rings, and
rope. These apparatus (and resulting
performance styles) are different from those used in women’s RG. An individual
gymnast has only one minute and thirty seconds for each routine. Individual
gymnasts also have creative control over their costumes, choreography, and
music. Each gymnast has several unique costumes and coordinating apparatus for
their different routines, making it easy to recognize them from the stands. In
some cases, a gymnast will wear a teammate’s (or older sibling’s) former
costume in tribute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Many men’s
rhythmic gymnasts choose to join performance groups like Cirque du Soleil or
BLUE TOKYO after graduation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cirque now
sends talent scouts to Japan to recruit Japanese men’s rhythmic gymnasts and
has created new acts to take advantage of Japanese men’s RG synchronized
tumbling skills. In fact, many performers in Cirque Du Soleil’s <b>Michael Jackson ONE</b> show in Las Vegas (</span><a href="https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/michael-jackson-one" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext">https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/michael-jackson-one</span></a>)
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">are top MRG talent, including
former national champions. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BLUE TOKYO</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (</span><a href="http://www.bluetokyo.jp/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext">http://www.bluetokyo.jp</span></a>)
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">was created by Coach Sakae
Arakawa of Aomori Yamada Hıgh School Men’s RG team and Coach Yoshimitsu Nakata
of Aomori University RG Team (both alumni of Kokushikan University RG Team) to
create opportunities for graduating gymnasts to continue performing. BLUE TOKYO
members are alumni of Aomori University MRG Team, the undefeated national MRG
champions for the last 18 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The winners of World of Dance Las Vegas in
December 2017 </span><br />
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BLUE TOKYO also appeared <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">on top
TV show America’s Got Talent in 2018. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b> How have you met Kokushikan
University rhythmic gymnastics team? And why you decided to introduce them
internationally?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:. I first met Coach Kotaro Yamada
and Kokushikan University RG Team</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> in June 2017; I was invited to the
Kokushikan Tama campus by a fellow MRG fan. At that time, there was very little
information about Japanese MRG avaialble in English, and I had spent many
fruitless hours searching on Google and YouTube without success. Because of
this, I felt it was important to publish an up-to-date English-language
newspaper article about Japanese Men’s RG with accurate, timely information. We
spent the afternoon interviewing the team, which was later turned into a
newspaper article distributed widely throughout Japan and online.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Kokushikan
Men’s RG Team (Photo: Ouen MRG)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By chance,
my new Japanese friends were also interested in promoting MRG in English to
increase international visibility of the sport, and I became involved with
proofreading MRG video subtitles as well as proofreading and writing English
blog articles and reports (including on Kokushikan’s RG’s official page </span><a href="http://www.kokushikan-rg.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.kokushikan-rg.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My men’s
rhythmic gymnast friends have invested so many years of hard work and passion
into their sport that the world deserves to know about and appreciate this
incredible talent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Since 2017,
I’ve actively promoted Kokushikan as well as other high school and college
men’s RG teams like Hanazono University, Aomori University, Aomori Yamada High
School and Ibara High School Men’s RG Teams through international outreach on
social media. Ibara High School’s extreme flexibliity and awe-inspiring
routines (they were national high school champions this year and ranked second
nationally) have made them a social media sensation, with their videos viewed
over 20 million times around the world! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibara HS MRG Team routine 2019: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s my
honor to count many men’s RG coaches and athletes as personal friends.
Supporting men’s RG has been one of the highlights of my time here, and the MRG
coaches and fans </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(especially
the gymnasts’ families) have been incredibly welcoming to me as one of the very
few foreigners supporting the sport here in Japan. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>: Can you introduce the team of
Kokushikan university rhythmic gymnastics team to us?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span> My pleasure! <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kokushikan University RG Team is one
of Japan’s oldest MRG teams dating to the 1950s, as well as one of the top
teams in Japan with 41 gymnasts (16 individual and 16 team gymnasts, with 9 in
reserve / supporting roles). Although not part of the performance team, several
Kokushikan graduate student athletes help coach the school’s junior, high
school, and university RG teams. The gymnasts spend so much time together
practicing and performing that they become a closeknit family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coach Kotaro
Yamada began performing MRG at sixteen during his first year of high school. He
was an individual gymnast for four years during college and two years following
graduation and became director of Kokushikan University RG Team in 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He
personally recruited the members of Kokushikan University RG team on scouting
trips around Japan. All of Kokushikan’s gymnasts were rhythmic gymnasts in high
school, but many also practiced other sports like judo, soccer, baseball, and
track and field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under Coach
Yamada’s guidance, the team has consistently ranked as one of the top men’s RG
teams in Japan. Kokushikan is known for its signature balance pose (one of the
required elements in competition) as well as the depth of the stories behind
their team routines. A great deal of thought goes into the selection of music,
story, and team costumes, and sometimes Kokushikan alumni assist with
choreography and creating new routines. Many of the top individual gymnasts in
Japan (including this year’s individual high school champion Hiromu Moriya </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and national all-around champion Takuto
Kawahigashi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> have come from Kokushikan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A typical
rehearsal is from 16:30 to 22:00 on weekdays and 9:00 to 21:00 on weekends.
Spring floor time is divided between individual and group teams and between
Kokushikan Junior and High School Teams and the university team. Warm-up lasts
about an hour for all gymnasts and consists of stretching, strength training
and basic gymnastics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In high
school, some men’s rhythmic gymnasts perform as both individual as well as team
gymnasts, but at the elite university level, this is even more challenging due
to the grueling class / practice schedule.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kokushikan Men’s RG sophomore Keisuke
Tanaka performing his clubs routine at 2018 All-Japan Intercollegiate
Championships (Photo: Mitsuyoshi Akiyama / Ouen MRG)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When you see
Kokushikan’s breathtaking, perfectly synchronized performances, what you don’t
see are the countless hours of rehearsal and fine-tuning to make these routines
a reality. Personally, I find watching rehearsals just as rewarding as seeing
the final polished routines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Your readers
can get a good feel for the “behind the scenes” in this two-part
English-subtitled OuenMRG Kokushikan documentary filmed shortly before
All-Japan National Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships 2018, where the team took
second place:<br />
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Part 1 (individual gymnasts): </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Part </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (team gymnasts) : </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><b></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Burcu: How can the readers of this
interview and people in Japan support the
Kokushikan university rhythmic gymnastics team? </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sarah:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Coach Yamada
would like audiences all over the world to see Kokushikan University RG Team
perform; the team is frequently invited to perform at overseas events including
Festival del Sole (</span><a href="https://www.festivaldelsole.it/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext">https://www.festivaldelsole.it/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)
in Italy, World Gymnastrada and AGG World Championships in Finland, and
Paws for a Cause in Atlanta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to
Coach Yamada, one of the most impressive moments for Kokushikan University RG
Team was at Festival del Sole in 2016 and 2018</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dubbed “flying samurai” by the
local Italian press, Kokushikan’s incredible performances (which utilized long
ropes, individual apparatus, tumbling, and balance and flexibility poses) wowed
10,000 spectators during the four-day festival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition
to performing overseas, Coach Yamada and the team also offer MRG workshops to
international gymnasts and coaches, and he would like to see more MRG programs
started overseas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Their next
international performance will be with GymMotion in Germany (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ouenMRG/videos/1142665225935996/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.facebook.com/ouenMRG/videos/1142665225935996/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">)
from Nov. 28-Dec. 7, 2019:</span></div>
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<a href="https://gymmotion.org/pages/die-show.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://gymmotion.org/pages/die-show.php</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Upcoming events are published in Japanese on the team’s
official website </span><a href="http://www.kokushikan-rg.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.kokushikan-rg.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you
for supporting Japanese men’s rhythmic gymnastics and my friends from
Kokushikan University Men’s RG Team!!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Burcu: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Thank you for the interview Sarah!
Now you can count me as an unofficial supporter of Kokushikan university
rhythmic gymnastics team, too ;)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To read
Sarah Hodge’s articles and learn more about Kokushikan University Rhythmic
Gymnastics team, you can follow japantravelbug social media accounts;</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.myjapaneselife.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.myjapaneselife.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><br />
<a href="http://www.instagram.com/japantravelbug" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.instagram.com/japantravelbug</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/japantravelbug/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.twitter.com/japantravelbug</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/fanmrg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.twitter.com/fanmrg</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(mostly Japanese-language retweets /
scores from MRG events)</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kokushikan RG official homepage</span></b><b><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">国士舘</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">RG</span></b><b><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">公式ホームページ</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="http://www.kokushikan-rg.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.kokushikan-rg.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<b>OuenMRG</b> (Japanese men’s RG
English-subtitled videos, athlete profiles and competition reports)<br />
</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/OuenMRG" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.facebook.com/OuenMRG</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/ouenmrg" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">www.instagram.com/ouenmrg</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Youtube: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/OuenMRG" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span color="windowtext">https://www.youtube.com/c/OuenMRG</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Special
thanks to Coach Kotaro Yamada and Kokushikan University RG Team, Ms. Yuki Julia
Ito and Hiromi Matsumoto (translators), and Mitsuyoshi Akiyama / Ouen MRG for
the use of team photos and video.)</span><br />
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Türkçe Makale İçin: <a href="http://www.burcu.kim/2019/12/roportaj-sarah-hodge-ile-japon-erkek.html">http://www.burcu.kim/2019/12/roportaj-sarah-hodge-ile-japon-erkek.html</a><br />
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<pre class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" data-placeholder="Çeviri" dir="ltr" id="tw-target-text" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="ja" tabindex="0">日本語の記事 :<a href="http://www.authorburcu.com/2019/11/mrg.html">http://www.authorburcu.com/2019/11/mrg.html</a></span></pre>
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Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-71697584839511357992019-10-28T17:50:00.006+03:002021-10-15T15:43:36.547+03:00The Filming Locations of Saiko no Jinsei no Mitsuke Kata In Nagasaki<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Saiko no
Jinsei no Mitsuke Kata (Way To Find The Best Life) is the remake of an American
film called "The Bucket List.". “Saiko no Jinsei no Mitsuke Kata” is shot
in <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kyoto, Nagasaki, Goto, Shizuoka and
Ibaraki. It’s released on October 11th. And at the weekend box office show that
there were </span>61,000 viewers.(October 12th/13th box office info from tokyohive.com)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Yukie
Kitahara (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her
family. Mako Goda (Yuki Amami) is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are
both diagnosed with terminal illnesses and are told they only have a short time
left to live. These two women from completely different walks of life meet at
the hospital. They both feel emptiness in their lives. They happen to get a
12-year-old's written bucket list. Yukie Kitahara and Mako Goda decide to carry
out the girl’s wish list and they begin to feel happiness entering their lives.(summary
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I like Yuki
Amami's acting from the detective drama called Boss. So when I saw her name I wanted to
check out the trailer. The story also looks interesting, I hope I can watch it
one day. People who visit my blog probably know that I worked as a volunteer
blogger for a paper in Nagasaki city before. So when I noticed this movie also
took place in Nagasaki, I wanted to make a post about the places where it is shot.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">1- Peace
Park(Nagasaki City)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">After the atomic bomb blast has happened on 9th August 1945, Peace Park
has been founded to represent the world peace. Peace Park statue's right hand
points the sky where the atomic bomb came, other hand stretching horizontally
symbolizes eternal world peace, while the slightly closed eyes express a prayer
asking that the souls of the victims may find rest.</span></div>
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Spectacles Bridge (Nagasaki City)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This bridge is originally built in 1634 but it was washed
away in 1982 and later it was rebuilt. you can find the heart shaped stone here
and make a wish for eternal love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">3-Magome
Church(Iojima Island)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This white Gothic church which is registered as a cultural
heritage spot is the symbol of the Iojima island. Originally built during the
Meiji period, because of the damage from lightning storms and typhoons it was rebuilt
in 1931 and given the name "Church of Archangel Michael". (Info from https://travel.at-nagasaki.jp/en/what-to-see/46/)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">4-Garden
Terrace Nagasaki Hotel & Resort(Nagasaki City)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">5- Nagasaki
Port Terminal(Nagasaki City)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">6-Fukueko
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first church was built, but with the aging of the church, in 1938, it was
renovated into an elegant wooden church built by Tetsukawa Yosuke. It is A
beautiful white church stands on the beach, surrounded by seasonal flowers. (info;
discover-nagasaki.com)</span></div>
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Ö.Burcu Öztürkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15712617566540299274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796243086435246829.post-5270947757109668752019-10-23T21:46:00.000+03:002019-10-29T21:56:33.520+03:00Lee Seung Gi And Leaders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #1c1e29; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Last but not least, Lee Seung Gi, the face of the Leaders brand, not only introduces the brand but also uses the brand's products, as a proof of that, at the first episodes of "Master in the house (집사 일체 일체 - All the Butlers) program which was broadcast in 2018 you can see him using the Vaseline mask from Leaders. I'm sharing the video of this here.</span></h2>
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