Glimpses of Japan Local - in JEnglish

  <<<<< intermission >>>>> plenty of time, but not enough money to satisfy I don't even feel like riding a bicycle in the cold As I put my feet in the  kotatsu , fell asleep before I knew it... As time goes by, my playful heart came out When reviewing the archives of my Japanese blog, which I started in 2011 in Nara,  Tracing my fading memories, started reading blogs, and felt somewhat interesting although it was written myself. Recycle　 Era of reuse Wouldn't it be interesting if being revived these old blogs? 　 What about recreating it into an English (or another foreign language) blog? It's the one I wrote myself in Japanese but will feel exhausted in translating it one after another. Why not try using AI automatic translation. Google Translate may be one of the good free options  At first, copied the sentences from the Japanese blog one by one and entered them into Google Translate. It saves the trouble of translating, but the copy-an...

  It's a weekday today, so many people won't be there. For some time, being away from the Noh chant practice.  Why not make it there. Bought some snacks and a pet bottle of tea. Headed to Wakamatsu North Coast  Iwaya  and  Tomigahana No cars parked in nearby parking spaces Which way should I take - go right or left? Interesting how the shrine was relocated from the original site where the lighthouse is now. The Goddess's jealousy against the God who fell in love with the beautiful sunset was the trigger. And the shrine was relocated to the east - where the sunset could not be seen. According to "Fukuoka Prefecture's Top 100 Cultures Scenic Spots and Landscapes" During the  Edo  period, only  Nagasaki  was open due to the shogunate's  national isolation policy 　 In 1640, the  Kuroda  clan set up  far-view guard stations  at five locations (one was added later). Iwaya Tomi-Bansho  is one of them. 　 Bansh...

  On an autumn day, enjoyed pottering in the nearby area from  Harumachi  原町, a post-station town 宿場町 on the  Old Karatsu Highway  旧唐津街道, to  Soshoji Temple  宗生寺. (Parking the car at the  Harumachi  entrance parking lot, it's a nearby pottering on Brompton "Poter-Kichi") Harumachi  i s a charming place with its nostalgic atmosphere.  On both sides of the gentle slope of the old road, it remains a glimpse of when it would have been crowded with people to and from  Kokura  -  Karatsu . A few years ago, passed by here from my place and ran to the next post town,  Azemachi  畦町, and then  Aoyagi-machi  青柳町, but now not have enough physical strength or willpower to do so. Hanging a digital camera around my neck and took a picture for a memo. But strange enough, the image settings of the camera were messing. Nakamura Kenichi and Takuji , two artists' birthplace Famous local butcher Ebisu-sama Matake ...