Video of Kurama Festival

鞍馬の火祭

So back to my travels. Last week I went to the Kurama Fire Festival 鞍馬の火祭 this is a festival that dates back about a thousand years. The festival is to remember the enshriment of the protector diety of the local Kurama Temple 鞍馬寺. The festival includes children carrying small torches up to men charrying large 10 meter torches.


This is an example of the Large Torches



I went with my friend Tatsuya 達也 first on a jam packed train and arrived about 6:30 to Kurama. There were so many local Kansai people 関西人 and tons of foreigners 外人. Later on the rest of the group arrived as the festival went underway. The festival included an amazing feet where they lifted these large torches into 2 lines and then took them back down and continured up to the temple. The police said this part of the festival was for locals only, but I think that it was to get the foreigners to leave.



We get on the Jam packed train and head back to Hirakata, me and Tatsuya arrived to my apartment at midnight, since he lives too far away I let him sleep there, which he was happy that he didn't have to wake up at 6am to goto campus. It was a great festival and I am glad I was able to attend!

Click here for more Kurama Photos 鞍馬の火祭写真

Panic Attack?

Recently I have been having a problem with Panic Attacks, they are a scary thing i will say. They can feel like Heart attacks and other times like an asthma attack. It is a strange problem because I really havent been under stress, not like when I am at SUNY Albany. It is strange, but everyone I am taking medication and I am feeling alot better~

最近僕はパニック発作がありました。メッチャ怖いね〜。時々狭心症みたい、その他時喘息が起こるみたい。でも、最近応力があらない、オルーバ二校でたくさん応力があたけどパニック発作がありませんでした。皆さん心配しないよ、今薬を飲んでる。＾＾

Moses? Beverage?

DAKARA Commerical



Some reason Moses and a Energy Sports Drink goes well together.

なんでモゼス？？？？？？

Long time

Hello everyone. 今日はミクシの友達！
最近、ミクシとBloggerの日記が一緒で書ったら、今アメリカと日本の友達は同じ日記読めるよ〜
Recently I relayed all my blogger posts so now my american and japanese friends can read the same posts.
そして、今から日本語と英語で書く。
So all my posts will be in Japanese and English

Midterms are coming soon, and I finally got all my books from America so I can start my thesis. It will be a busy 2 months ahead! Also i will be working for the Ohtsuki Noh Theater as a translator for their play programs in hopes of making more Foriegn People interested in Noh Theater. This works good because now they will help me with my project, including free Noh plays and ability to watch the children of the theater train. Im excited!

中間試験は近くですよ、昨日アメリカから本が着いたから、私のレポトを書く始まるよ。次の２ヶ月は忙しいになるかも、でも頑張れます。今から大槻能楽堂に翻訳者になった、そこにが外国人は能劇に観るためにプログラムが日本語から英語に訳す。そのことはメッチャすごいな、清水さんは私に彼女のお子さんのとライニングのことを見えます。楽しみ〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜

Mount Hiei

Saturday Me and troy decided to goto Mt. Hiei比叡山 with his boss Oya-sensei. But before I get into that I will discuss my new concept for this blog, seeing i now have the Photo website, I will post maybe 3 photo's of my journeys here, and post a link to my site where you can get more detailed information about the individual photos, and much more of them:)


So I was awaken by phone calls saying "hey where are you?", from that I learned I had over slept, i threw on clothes and bolted out the door to the meeting place. I get in the car and we first head to Lake Biwa 琵琶湖 for a nice BBQ with some really tasty meats and veggies. Afterwards Oya-sensei asks us where should we head to next, he suggested Nara but then realized it is kind of late to head there now, so then he says "Ah Hiei is close and we can goto Enryaku-ji延暦寺. So we goto the mountain and we saw the most beautiful scenery I have seen in quite some time. From the mid point of the mountain we could see Otsu大津, and Kyoto京都. It was amazing.
The temple was great too, it was once a huge complex and the center of Japanese Buddhism, until Oda Nobunaga 織田信長 burnt the temple to the ground in the Momoyama Period桃山時代 because of the political threat the monastaries were then becoming. The temple was indeed facinating, and this trip was amazing. We ended the trip with seeing the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen in my life, too bad my camera could not capture it in time :(

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