Hi! This is Chieko Yokobori. I'll talk about seafood bowl called kaisen-don in Japanese. It is vinegared rice topped with raw fish in a bowl. The ingredients of seafood bowl are mainly tuna, salmon, scallop, shrimp, octopus, squid, and seasoned sea urchin eggs and so on. It looks attractive because of colorful ingredients, but they are luxury food, so the price of seafood bowl is not cheap. I think this is eaten in celebration of special event, such as the New Year. The seafood bowl is very delicious. I have eaten seafood bowl many times from my childhood. I like salmon very much! While some people dip raw fish in soy sauce, I pour soy sauce on the seafood bowl when I eat it. I think hot green tea is the best suitable for seafood bowl.
This is the seafood bowl which I ate.
I love Japanese food because it is delicious and healthy. Tsukiji is the wholesale market and a lot of fresh fish and shell are sent from all over Japan to there. I want to eat seafood bowl there some time.
She is my favorite songer, BENI. Her voice is very beautiful! When I listen to her song, I can relax.
This time I would like to introduce about Kimono. Kimono concerned Japanese
culture deeply. Kimono is consisted of underwear, obi,kimono, hair
ornament, and socks called tabi. We sometimes put it on at celebration, for
instance; marriage, graduation ceremony, coming-of-age celebration. Since I’m going to dress long-sleeved kimono for my
coming-of –age celebration, I’m interested in Kimono. It has long history. The
first Kimono culture was born in Azutimomoyama era. Then there was no Obi like
today’s style. This is the image. The style which we used to see is established at Edo era.
The width of obi became longer than ever, and Ohashyori started to use. Also,
women began to put their hair up. There were so many kinds of color valuations,
a lot of ways to dye fabric were invented in Edo era.Today, Kimono is rare to
see in daily, but everybody knows it. It is one of the most famous Japanese culture
of which we proud. Summer is going to come
soon. I want to wear Yukata for summer festival.If you want to know more, please see this.
Hi, this is Mie Sato. Today I want to introduce "Lang-8". Do you know about this? Lang-8 is a social networking service for foreign language learners. In this SNS, foreign language learners can have their journal or something looked over and corrected by native speakers. Let me give an example; I'm studying English, and I write a journal in English. I contribute it to Lang-8, then native English speakers correct my journal. I can know my mistakes, and I can improve my English. On the contrary, I can correct Japanese learners' writing as a native Japanese speaker. I can help foreigners' learning. Of course, we can use this SNS for free! I haven't had the account yet, but I want to use Lang-8 for my study. Lang-8 is a very useful SNS, isn't it?
Hi, this is Mie Sato. I chose this building to introduce a work of Frank Gehry. This is Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a clinic and laboratory of brain especially Alzheimer dementia, and opened on July 13, 2009. Frank Gehry imaged brain cells, and designed this. Waving and complicated walls are interesting. Frank Gehry also imaged high regard for lost things and hope of discovering a sickness. I wonder about a shape of rooms. The shape is irregular, but this is helpful for treatment and discovery of sickness. I think it doesn't looks like a clinic. But it is very interesting, and if I go to this center, I will be inspired something. This looks like good for brains. I want to see this building someday.
