Nebuta

Nebuta(1)

Nebuta(2)

Mr.Socks ? Oh, Socksssss.

Nebuta(3)

Tanabata festival

This TED is ... weird !

Oyster

These oysters are for eating raw.

Dragonfly

Golden Flangetail

Scientific name is the Sinictinogomphus clavatus.

Before recently, their habitats used to be the south of Kyushu, Shikoku.

They are now found in Tokyo area due to the green house effect.

Cruel hot summer has begun

The temperature in Kofu city, Yamanashi pref. was 39.2 ℃
Even Tokyo's temperature was 35.2 ℃.
This climate phenomenon seems to be about 2 weeks earlier than typical year.
You need definitely an air conditioner here to avoid heated air outside.

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Full marathon

My new target was set to run a full marathon.
"D day" will be the 11th,November in 2013 !

me,Mt.Fuji and

A rabbit ?

A figure

The famous owner of Chinese noodle (called "RAMEN") restaurant.

Matsuri

Kurayami Matsuri @ FUCHU,Tokyo.

The festival in Tohoku

Tohoku is the northern area in Japan, where the great earth quake occurred in March 11th, 2011.
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Two years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The six big festivals in Tohoku are united. This year, the Tohoku Rokkon Festival which was started for the reconstruction of Tohoku will be held for the third time. This year, it will be held on June 1 and 2 over two days in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture.
In addition to the six big festivals in Tohoku, twelve cities in Fukushima Prefecture have also announced that they will participate this time.

after

after cherry blossom.
Next "GOLDEN week"

Kumotori-yama

Mt.Kumotori,2017 meter in height.
The day when we started climbing was very bad, raining, windy and finally snowstorm came to us.
But next day (April 4th) became clear.
We could see Mt.Fuji at the peak of Mt.Kumotori.

Cherry blossoms

Many people enjoy the blossoms in this season at UENO park.

Airplane track

cool?

Warm season has come

Wow it's warm here!

a Half Marathon

Yesterday, I have completed the half marathon in 2 hours and 11 minutes.
It was very windy and very hard to run against the strong wind.
Strong wind tried several times to have broken my spirit.

When I finished the run, I had pains in the lumbar region.
Possibly, I might need to take a rest for a while to run again.
But it is very good to break through a wall for stepping up to the another stage.
So, I am going to run again when my waist is all right.

PM2.5 is coming

PM2.5 is the fraction of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than2.5 μm.
This small size the PM2.5 fraction of particulate matter can penetrate deep into your lungs.
This may cause the lung cancer, lung related diseases.
China is spitting lots of  PM2.5 and it's drifting deep into Japan.

Run Run Run

I run 21 km yesterday.
It was a training RUN.
Time was 2 hours 25 minutes.
Not so bad, I think.
Official RUN will be on the 2nd of March.
I need to run 21 km in 2h 30m.
Because they need to stop the public road for this marathon.
Finger the cross.

Nuclear Weapons

North Korea has carried out it's nuclear test today.
In addition to the previous missile test, North Korea did the third time test (2006,2009).
United Nation could not stop the test as well as China, U.S.A.
Nobody can not stop N Korea without war ?
N Korea has been imposed the layers of sanctions which do not seem to have any impact

Warm season

Warm season is comming.

snow

The first snow in 2013.

The contract for a iPhone

Here is the contract exchanged between a mom and his son.
This is, in my opinion, very good, so I will put the link on my blog.
Regretfully, it might be too late for my daughters but I will introduce this to them, at least hoping that they will understand how their dad loves them.

a bird

I don't know the name of this bird.

photograhers

taking a pictures of a halcyon.

sunset scene

this photo was taken during the night walk with my dog, Mr.Baron.

New Year's scene 2

@Fuchu OKUNITAMA shrine.

A Happy New Year

One of scenes on January1st.

Tokyo station Christmas lights

started from today.

Chichibu night festival

Jinbasan

Climbing TSUBAKURODAKE again

Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta japonica)

TSUBAKURODAKE, 2763 meters in height.

Facing to the mountain lodge, ENZANSO.

Annular solar eclipse

Annular Solar Eclipse was seen in Tokyo.

Annular solar eclipse is starting.

 Now the ring is completed.

















Back to the normal.

10km run again

At Shiobara hot spring district, run 10 km again.
This time, 66 min was my total time to the goal.
Not so fast but finished anyway.

Just a flower

Poppies.
There is a distinct difference between a Scottish Poppy and the English Poppy.
The Scottish Poppy has 4 petals and does not have a green leaf.
The English Poppy has 2 petals and a green leaf.
These are about the Remembrance Poppies.

Tokyo Sky Tree

New famous spot in Tokyo will be open in May.

Equisetum arvense

Field horsetail is unique name for this plant.

Japanese name for it is "Tsukushi".

This name came from the Japanese calligraphy brush.

Kumano-cho is very famous for producing the brush.

Warm season

Unusual cold season seems to be finished in Tokyo.
It's very warm,today.
People go out and enjoy the sun shining.

Obi One Kenobi

Who is acting OBI ONE ?

One year

One year has passed after the big disaster in northern Japan.
Please pray for those who passed away by it.
Don't forget the 3.11 and "ARIGATO" for the support to Japan.

Birds around the river

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker(Dendrocopos kizuki)

Japanese white-eye known as mejiro.

Halcyon.

flowers of the snow

We had snow again.

snow

It's snowing after 35 days dry weather in Tokyo.
Good to see the ground covered with snow .

Pyracantha

Pyracantha or Firethorn,producing red berry.

2012 has started !

On the 1st of January, people go to a near shrine and pray for the healthy , peaceful life there.

The 2011 was not good year, so many people, I guess, go there and pray for the tsunami suffered area.

2012 is the year of the dragon. I hope this country will go up strongly, peacefully !
I pray for it.

Needle ice

In cold winter,you can find the needle ice everywhere around a field here.
The subterranean liquid water is popping up on surface.

When I see the ice needle, I feel the real winter has come.