"Come on and take a close look."
"This is Dada, and this one is Redking. Oh no, here is Garamon and Peguila too. And this must be Jamilar. They are all so small! And so well-made."
Listen up, listen up. You too, Sir and Madam.
I'm sure you can spare a moment to hear about 'sento', a popular part of our honorable and world-renowned Japanese culture.
Besides being a bathroom for cleansing the body, the sento became a meeting place for the masses to enjoy social intercourse and naked fellowship.
Kagome, Kagome, the bird in the cage,
when will you come out?
In the evening of the dawn,
the crane and turtle slipped.
Who stands right behind you now?
- A child's play song
"The Legend of the TOKYO SUBWAY"
Chika = A girl born in Koutou-ku, Tokyo. Age is unknown. She takes Tetsuo, her relative, to Tokyo to see the sights. Her special talent is keeping silent for hours.
Tetsuo = A weird boy who loves boiled quail eggs and TV shopping. He was born in Paris and grew up in Nagoya.
Edo had a spectacular fireworks display on the Sumida River. Everyone would shout in wonder when a beautiful burst exploded. The most extravagant way to view the firworks was to take a Yakata boat out on the river wearing a Yukata. It was the ideal way for people to forget the problems of everyday life.
If I may, I wish to die under cherry blossoms in spring, just around the full moon in April.
Saigyo, a legendary Japanese poet who lived and died aside cherry blossoms, was a wanderer for whom "travelling was life, and life was travelling".
A long long time ago, there was an old temple.
It was such a beautiful temple colored with many blooming flowers in spring,and deep-red persimmons in fall.
But later, everyone started to believe ghastly apparitions lived there. As time went by, the temple went to ruin and no one visited any more. After a while, people forgot the temple completely.
...A Trip to the World of "MITATE"
In the ancient China, they believed that katsura trees grew on the moon. Here, Katsura Village, located in the southeast of Kyoto, is no exception in its association with the moon. Legend says that seeds of the katsura trees on the moon fell on the earth to make the Katsura forest.
500 years later, the memories of these stories were passed on to the establishment of the Katsura Imperial Villa.
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