Art or Culture, perhaps there are all here like Museums…
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Plz Mr.Postman, let us look and see your “MAILBOX COLOR”(#24)
Do you know the existence of RED WING’s “Postman” shoes?As the name suggests, it is said to have been manufactured and sold as a homage to the shoes worn by Postman.Their postman’s job is to travel around the area, relying on maps and their own sense of land and legs, sometimes for delivery and sometimes…
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Your “Wonderwall” To Be Here, as well（#23）
Do you know the picture of “Pitaya”? The artist is Frida Kahlo.She is one of Mexican leading contemporary art masters.By chance, finding out about the painting called “Dragon Fruit” in the using Chinese character area, like China or Japan.In Mexico, an art movement called the “Mexican Renaissance” was once unfolded.The most symbolic is the “mural…
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Walk in the Light While There is Light（#22）
“2021” In 2021, it started as a rare year for the world, and Japan too.Especially Japan has still planed to hold the Olympic Games, that 2021 received “three times” Olympic year as “Tokyo Olympic Games 2020“. Eventually, is the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics held? Many people in Japan has a negative and skeptical opinion.Even so,…
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Don’t upset the things became “upside down”.（＃21）
New Year’s Day of the lunar calendar in 2021 was on February 12. By the way, is there a Chinatown in your city? There has often been covered with “Red”.And there is the Chinese character “福（Fu)” that turned upside down in this period, too. Have you ever seen it? The word calls Fu by Chinese…
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Checking the fashion about “Ramenman”（＃20）
“Ramenman” has not only the Manchu queue , but actually wears costumes derived from the Qing dynasty like mandarin dress（Cheongsam) .The costumes is mainly treated as a formal in modern China.Is men’s costume the same as?After the Qing dynasty, there is “Changshan” (Cheongsam for men) and “Tangzhuang”, and after the founding of the People’s Republic…
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“Ramen” was established like “one hair-style”（＃19）
The trend hair style is the Japanese version of “Manchu queue”? There is one of the trend hair style “ramenman hair” between young women in recent Japan. The name is derived from “Ramenman” that appears in the manga “Kinnikuman”. Decades after Muscle figure named “Kinkeshi” became popular between male children, why did it became popular…
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The world that colors our head ~ the reason of “Little Red Riding Hood” put on red?（＃18）
A movie set in Algeria called “PAPICHA” was screened in October 2020, Japan. This work won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2019.Among them, there was a scene about a folk costume called “Haik”.The size is 6m x 2.2m, and the material is generally wool, silk, or synthetic silk.Not all of…
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“Cherry Blossoms” to blossom for future is …（＃17）
Relocation of one “Sake factory” Recently, there was the news that the factory of its company called Michizakura Sake Brewery is relocated from Gifu to Hokkaido, in Japan. Cold water, good quality rice, and temperature control are especially important for making good tasteing sake.Combined with the effects of aging its factory and global warming, it…
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Aesthetic bowls circulate like the “Fountain”（＃16）
Do you know the incident of “Richard Mutt”? It started in April 1917, when a work signed Richard Mutt was sent to an art exhibition in New York, the U.S, and he was one of a judge in there. This exhibition was open for any artists if paying a fee. However, this work was rejected.…
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Miles apart, but Close at our heart（＃15）
Do you know there is an active volcano called “Vesuvius” in the Gulf of Naples, Italy? There used to be a Japanese painter who was shown to the mountain while studying in Italy. His name is Ryuzaburo Umehara (1888-1986). He heard that there is a mountain similar to Vesuvius in Japan, and after returning to…
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