Blog:8 New exposition start at Gakushuin

Saku Miyakawa
This is a catalog of new exposition at Gakushuin University Museum of History. This exposition`s theme is the mode of modern education in Japan.  I think this is very interesting.
I`ve helped works at Gakushuin University of Museum since this july. During summer, I`ve been putting historical material in order, which was concern about Tuji Kunio who is japanese famous critic and novelist, and  was professor of french literature at Gakushuin. That was very good time for me. 
Now, I work at this museum as receptionist on every monday, tuesday and wednesday morning.
Please come in and enjoy the expo！

Blog#8: What is FUTURE

I'm Haruka. Let me introduce a new style performance I saw last weekend.

I went to see a performance my friend participated in at Yokohama with my sister. The performance "NO FUTURE/YES FUTURE" was held by Dristers Summer School that is a class run by leading teachers and passionate students. Students are divided into four groups - dance, building, clothes, and advertisement. But they don't have a producer. In other words, all of them are producers, so their performance includes not only one idea but every idea. A performance we have never seen was born because it is very difficult and troublesome to make something by everyone.

It is not a play or a musical. Dancers don't play their own roles and there is not a hero or a heroine. That puzzles audience, "What is happening?", because it is a new style performance. I don't know how to explain it. But I think it is "a story which don't have a hero", that is, "a life". Future is a Life, I think so through "NO FUTURE/YES FUTURE".

I could have an exciting time. If you want to know it more, please check the site.

Blog#8: A Trip to Paris part2

　　Previously, I introduce 2 places to you, Monet’s house and The Petit Trianon. This time, I talk to you about 1 place that is the main of this trip for me. This is essential to study the western art of history.

　  The most impressive place of this trip is the Louvre Museum. It was the other one of my dreams to visit there for a long time. I wanted to look “Venus de Milo”,” Mona Lisa” and other wonderful works. And I wanted to look the most in the Louvre Museum is “Winged Victory of Samothrace”. When I was a high school student, the teacher whom I respected for show me some pictures of” Winged Victory of Samothrace”. (We usually call this “Nike”.) It was so beautiful, so wonderful, that I was impressed.

　　 In Louvre, I was very excited. I looked “Nike” about 5 times and took photos a lot.　Of course another works are very beautiful and I was impressed. All a day, I was in that museum (I think my family was bored to death with me.)

 　

　　 In Paris, I visited some other places, Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie and so on (the picture is Musée d'Orsay). But next time, I want to visit more and more places than this time.

Blog#7: A Trip to Paris part1

I’m Yoshiko.

This summer I went to Paris with my family. I visited many famous places, for example Opera National de Paris, Montmartre, Notre Dame de Paris etc. Today I introduce my favorite places of Paris to you.

First, I went to a village, Giverny, where the famous painter Claude Monet had been lived. In his house there are many Japanese Ukiyoe prints that are Monet’s collections. 
     And there is a garden which is the most famous subject of Monet. Probably almost all of you have looked paintings of this subject. It was one of my dreams since I was 14 years old to look a garden of Monet’s house. So my one dream comes true. And this picture is a pond of a water lily.

 



    And the other picture is The Petit Trianon in The Palace of Versailles. It was very pretty place like a world of “Howl's Moving Castle” which is the movie of Studio Ghibli. In here, I felt as if I were in that movie.

Blog#7: Birds Welcome

Hi, I'm Haruka. It has been a long time since I posted last. In this summer vacation, I travel through western Japan: Kumamoto, Moji ( Fukuoka ）, Naoshima, Osaka, Nagoya, Shizuoka. I will talk about one of the most exciting memories.

I visited Kakegawa-Katyoen (the place to see many flowers and birds) in Shizuoka with my friend. Birds are so lovely for me that I wanted go there.

In Katyoen, we can enjoy with birds. For example, it has a show by falcons and falconers ("Takajo" in Japanese, someone who trains falcons to hunt). Falconers make falcons fly over our heads. Audience is fascinated with their powerful flies and found that falcons are so cool.

After the show, I could touch a penguin and take pictures with it!! It was so soft and warm.

Besides we can feed cute birds ― ducks, parakeets, emus, and so on. Why don't you play in Katyoen, when you come to Shizuoka?

It was impressive exposition

Saku Miyakawa
Today, I write about one of the most impressive place which I went to in this summer.
The place is Hyogo Prefectual Museum of Art. This picture is a catalog of the exposition, `Camille Pissarro Patriarche de la modernite`. This title of the exposition means `permanent modern` in french.
Actually, this exposition told us about importance of what human lost in modern and what human got in modern through works of Pissarro, the man who was  a father of the group of the Impressionism. I think he was one of men who ushered in the conception of modern art. I`ve liked Pissaro`s works before I went to this exposition, but more and more I became a big fan of his works. I was very good exposition. 

Blog#6: Mr.children

I'm Yoshiko

Probably you know them. They are Japanese famous band “Mr.children”. I was recommended them by a person whom I look up to. Then I love their songs.

  Their songs are very tender but when I listening to them I can’t help feeling that Kazutoshi Sakurai who is vocal in this band has great inner strength.

 Please listen to this song.

 The title of this is “HERO”. And I like the beginning of this.

　Supposing that the world could be saved

　by one person giving their life in exchange,　

　I　would be the man who waits until someone else has volunteered.

   

   　 　All those dear to me have made me a coward.

　I don't expect to be like my idols

　whose actions and mannerisms I imitated as a child.

　But I'd like to be a hero,

　just for you,

　to reach a hand out to you,

　when you stumble or fall.

  

 　When I listening to this song, I thought the man who is in this song is weak, tender but very strong. Probably he has self-awareness of his weakness. I think the strong man is who is like that.  If he appears in front of me, I’m sure that I’m fallen in love with him!!

I referred to this website.

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