Entries from 2017-01-01 to 1 month
On January the 29th 2017, I watched an Austrian-Luxembourgian movie called Egon Schiele: Tod und Madchen. It is a story for a famous artist in the beginning of the 20th century, Egon Schiele himself, baring the secret of “Tod und Madchen”.…
On January the 28th 2017, I climbed Mt. Kannabiyama（甘南備山）in southern part of Kyoto Prefecture, Yamashiro to avoid snow. It is famous for the appearance in the collection of ancient Japanese folk tales, Konjaku-Monogatarishu（今昔物語…
On January the 22nd 2017, I watched a new Martin Scorsese picture “Silence（沈黙）” based on the novel of a Japanese writer Shusaku Endo（遠藤周作）. It was a fiction story of a Portuguese priest who visited Japan in the beginning of Edo p…
I watched a Japanese movie called “Pale Moon（紙の月）”. It is a story about a solitary woman banker who embezzled transactions among customers and the bank. The woman has calm character and at first, she appeared not to be enthusiastic. H…
On January the 8th 2017, I watched Kyoto Kanzekai Regular Meeting (January) of Nohgaku in Kyoto Kanzekaikan. The repertoires were Noh Okina（翁）, Noh Oimatsu（老松）, Kyogen Sanbon no Hashira（三本柱）, Shimai Tohoku（東北）, Noh Yuya（熊…
Happy new year 2017 and we wish everyone to enjoy a great year. As a new year’s visit to a temple, we visited Taishokannonji temple, also known as “Abiko Kannon Ji temple”（大聖観音寺、吾彦観音寺）, where I have already visited. This templ…
