Welcome board

My friend Yuri who lives in NY made it for us.

"Welcome

Mamiko & Eduardo

May 21, 2010"

How beautiful!!

She teaches NY people how to make this.

We displayed it when our wedding party!

And I brought it to Japan.

We might have a wedding party in Tokyo, too.

So we use this again!!

Thank you so much Yuri-san!!

I got married

Eduardo and I got married May 21 in City hall NY.

I'm happy.

I'm wearing a necklace which has color of his country Argentina, and he's wearing a tie which is color of Japan.

It was not only getting husband but also I could touch a lot of people's tender heart.

Rose & Train

It's the best time for roses now.

A lot of roses are planted along the streetcar in Tokyo called "Toden"

Arakawa Yuenchi station is 5 minutes away from my apartment.

I could see many kinds of roses around the station♪

Long time no see!

My Korean friend Yuna (sitting next to me) is visiting Tokyo now!

We used to study in same language school when we were in NY

Yuna, Megumi (the 2nd from the right) and I always hung out together.

I was momentarily under the illusion that we were walking on the 5th avenue in Manhattan

when we were walking on the main street of Ginza.

And Megumi said same thing!

Welcome Yuna! and I'm really glad to see you again!!

Hakuba mountains!

A spectacular view of snow-covered mountains!!

In 1998, Olympic Winter Game was held in Nagano.

Though it's May, a lot of people still come here to ski and snow boarding.

Beautiful!!

Music camp in Tsugaike

Takayama Nishi High School Band camped for training in Tsugaike highlands Nagano.

I went there to teach them yesterday.

I took a bus from Hakuba station.

It was cute architecture!

And when I turned around, I saw......

Look at a picture above!

The first tea of the season

I went to Hamamatsu yesterday.

My grand mother who lives there bought green tea for me.

Tea shop 'Maruien' which we always buy green tea shows tea leaves. It's interesting.

They made tea for us while we were waiting.

This muddiness is the proof of the first tea of the season.

I look forward to enjoying these fresh tastes every year!

Flute Concerto

She is Ayako Maeda. A member of TKWO.

She played Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by L. Liebermann in TKWO regular concert.

It was wonderful piece but veryyyyyyy difficult!!

She was amazing! I was so impressed.

Actually, I was more nervous than her....

There were many solos and we had to play always [pppppp] even though [f].

Though the trumpet part was hard, I was happy to play this beautiful piece with Ayako san!

Orchestra pit in Fumon Hall

Hi friends!

It was warm today♪

We played on the pit today.

The pit go up and down leave we sit on there.

It's a little thrilling.

Kurosawa

When I was in NY, I was always told

"Why haven't you seen Kurosawa movies though you are Japanese??? He is great!!"

from many of my friends.

And also I was said same thing from my English teacher in Tokyo after I came back.

Foreigners admire him even though they are young.

Luckily TOHO Cinemas Chanter has been showing

30 Kurosawa movies for hundredth anniversary of his birth

since March 27th.

Once I saw [The Quiet Duel] in the theater, I was really into his movies!!

I've seen 6 of his movies so far.

I'll go to see his movie as many as possible.

Beginning of this event, most of the audience are elderly.

Recently I've seen some young people.

I saw [Seven Samurai] today.

The seats were sold out, and it was fantastic!!

SAKURA

Though we can see sakura only for 1-2weeks, the weather always change a lot while the sakura's best time...

Luckily, it was clear yesterday in Tokyo and cherry blossoms were at their best!

flowers withstood the rainstorm the previous day.

I thought the flowers are gone.

So it was impressive.

We saw cute and beautiful sakura in Nippori and Ueno.

The tallest tower in Japan!

I took this photo from my room.

Sky Tree which will be a new broadcasting tower became taller than the Tokyo Tower (333m) today!

It is going to be 634 meters high.

Kamakura2

There is a huge Daibutsu sama (statue of Buddha) in Kamakura.

I was impressed and felt a great peace of mind.

Kamakura

Hi! It's very cold like winter today...

My body already expect warm spring, so I can't stand such a cold weather anymoreeeeee!!!!

Though spring moved back, cherry blossoms are start blooming♪

I drove to Kamakura yesterday.

It was not so cold and very beautiful day yesterday!

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu is a big, beautiful shrine built in 1063.

The fortune I drew predicted bad luck :(

So I drove carefully the way back.

Hi Elvis!

Happy New Year my friends!

I was lazy.. sorry

SO, I went to USA last week.

CBDNA(College Band Directors National Association)

was held in the University of Mississippi.

A Japanese college band was invited for the concert,

and I played with them as a extra player.

I flew to Memphis after visited NY for a few days.

Elvis greeted us at a souvenir shop♪

Christmas Tree made from dolls

How was your Christmas?

I went to see a movie with my friend in Roppongi.

There was a cute Christmas Tree made from small many Santa Clauses!

It's been warm recently in Tokyo.

Take care friends♪

Mother's Watch

On November 10th 2009, I surpassed my mother's age.

I never can imagine finishing my life so early...

Now, my mother in my memory is younger than me.

I read an article in a newspaper before my birthday,

The article introduced about an old broken watch story.

Before a few month of the article, a watch repairer read an article about the watch coincidentally.

The article said the owner of the watch had wanted to fix it, but no one could so far.

The watch repairer Mr. Shimizu called the newspaper company,

and said "Could you tell the owner to show me the watch? "

Mr. Shimizu fixed the watch!

Then, the newspaper introduced this whole story. And I read it.

I've wanted to fix an old watch which is a keepsake from my mother for a long time.

The watch is over 30 years old and It has not worked for about 15 years.

So I went to Mr. Shimizu's shop (fortunately, the shop is in Tokyo!!).

He was an old gentle man. And he promised me that he would fix the watch.

One week later, the watch started ticking again when I surpassed my mother's age!!

I never thought there was such a big difference in my feeling between it works and doesn't work.

Now I'm very happy.

I really thank Mr. Shimizu and Sankei news paper.

Hakkeijima sea paradise

We went on an annual trip of our orchestra.

There were cute "white" dolphins in the aquarium.

We were healed by these dolphins, penguins, sea otters and a lot of fish.

The Second Tokyo Tower

The second tokyo tower is being built now.

I can see the tower from my living room and it's growing up a little by little!

So I've been taking pictures of it from a same point.

Can you see the change?

Mt.Fuji from my apt.

I've lived this apartment for 4 years.

I didn't know I can see the Fuji-San from here~~~~~!!!

Though I've looked for the Fuji-San many times, I couldn't find it.

I was sure that was because of buildings between my apartment and the Fuji-San, but it was wrong.

I knew the front door side faces north west. But it was more north than I thought.

So I should've seen left side more than I did so far.

Then I noticed that my apartment's stairs was hiding the Fuji-San!

When I looked for it from a little right side of my front door,

the Fuji-San appeared in my sight!