Kyoto Museum11_08_09 京都国立近代美術館、モホイ＝ナジ イン・モーション展

I went to Kyoto contemporary museum.

http://www.momak.go.jp/Japanese/exhibitionArchive/2011/387.html

It was very hot day and I had to stop at the convenience store and eat ice cream. Many tourists were doing the same thing, because there were nice Japanese style benches with a large parasol.
The show was good, but the distance from my house was very far.

Kyoto Tower from Kyoto Station

Heian Jingu shrine torii in the middle of the road.

Reflection of the trii

Trii behind a tree.

design of the Kyoto museum

Furuichi walk あみま古市ウォーク 7/10/2011

I was walking around historic road from Furuichi Kintetsu line station to Fujidera station. It was very hot summer time on July 10th, and I was sweating and drinking a lot of water. I haven been around, but I never walked around this places.

Hakutyou shrine near Furuichi station.

I crossed the signal to Konda Hachiman shrine.

Higashi koya kaidou, old pilgrimage road south east part of Osaka toward Koyasan mountain.

An entrance of Konda Hachiman shrine.

A phoenix is a symbolic animal derived from Chinese myth.

Another monument for East Koya Kaidou road signs. These stones are also from the ancient time.

Otoritsuka Kofun berial mound from about 6 century. 

もじゃハウス！
I love ivy covered houses and buildings!

Old lanterns. It was hard to take photos, because they were at private housing area. I guess it used to be a part of the shrine before.

I liked the rusted sign...

Ok, so there are many sign, car no enter sign, crossing signal, and causion sign and the road sign.  So which sign you will see first?!

I wish I had a gut to ask there why they have the huge bowling pin... I should be some factory.

I took a break at the old emperor Yuryaku grave, sitting down and drinking water. Some local woman was looking who the hell hanging around. It a purely local oriented area, no tourists or not many people around, so they feel insecure.

A little path goes under the railway. So did they make railway first or the path?!

This monument is representing that they used to have a Fujidera baseball stadium near Fujidera station. Right now the team has changed their name and own home stadium at different place. This area has become a university campus.

My gay protest photo is on a website

My photography on gay marriage protest was used in the main website at the Minnesota organization. They found me on goggle, so we got connected.

Here is the website.

http://www.mnlove.org/Home.html

More photos in the series.

https://picasaweb.google.com/tomoenk6/GayMarriageProtest#

Charity Concert by Latinos in Kansai 2011/5/1

I found this post at Nishinari, and I feel like I wanted to help Tohoku people by just enjoying the Latino show, so I went to the Charity Concert. Also, I was curious who are the latino people who live in Kansai area.
There are handmade food, Spanish, Peruvian music and dance, as well as prayers and songs for Tohoku people before starting the show.

以前西成をあるおじさんに案内してもらっていて児童館に行った時に壁に張り紙がしてあった。そこに東北の震災の為のチャリティーコンサートのビラがあった。なぜそんなところにあったか？コンサートは外国人向けの教会にあったから、教会の人がボランティアしている西成でもポスターを配っていたのかもしれない。
最近ラテン系の文化に興味があるので、ボランティアがてらにコンサートに行ってみようと思った。入場料は無料だが寄付を募ってるとの事だった。それに関西にいるラテン系の人ってどんな人がいるか見てみたかった。
行ってみたらフィリピン人、日本人と結婚したペルー人、ただペルーやボリビアの音楽にはまっている日本人などがいた。日本在住が長い、スペイン人の牧師さんが司会をしていた。
ロビーでは手作りの食べ物がいろいろとあった。少々高かったが。始まる前に日本語と英語とスペイン語でお祈りとミサがあって、踊りや音楽があった。ペルーのハープや、スペインのフラメンコ、ボリビアの国際結婚夫婦の踊り、ギター演奏などがあった。
日本ではなかなか見れないショーなので、楽しかった。

Filipino Christian women are singing.

Peruvian harp. 梅田周辺でレストランをしている人だと思います。

It was far and dark to capture, so I took photo on the wall reflecting flamenco dancer.

I think they are a couple who play guitar and dance flamenco together.

Peruvian harp.

After finished the concert at the hall, they were still doing performance at the entrance of the church, and still asking for donation.

Japanese dancers are shorter than they would be in Spain, but they look cute on their costumes.

A guy on the left sing flamenco in Spanish, and he sang very well. I wanted to ask why he could sing good and where he learned about. He spoke good Spanish too and had a lot of experience with latin songs.

Tamateyama walk 2011, 4, 29 玉手山

Amima walk. あみまウォーク。
I walked to Kashiwara to Domyoji station.
道明寺線の柏原から道明寺駅迄歩きました。

駅長のおすすめハイクがあるんですが、他の人も一緒に歩いているので、競争っぽくなっている。フレンドリーに一緒になって歩いてくれたらいいけど、なんかそういう雰囲気になれる人が少ないのが面白くない。

I like walking around by myself and collect stamps at Kintetsu stations.
自分的にはメンバー付属の地図で自分でまわってスタンプを貯めるのが好きです。

It seemed strange that there is a chimney in the middle of housing area with no factory building or anything.

I realized that I walked up on the road of highway. I do not normally drive on a freeway, so it is rare to see freeway, so I took the photo.

An entrance gate of Tamateyama park. 玉手山公園の入り口ゲート。
I entered from the back gate. 裏口から入って入り口から出た。

Kashiwara Tamate Post Office.
I liked the picture on the shutter of the post office. High school girls were looking and wondering why I shot the small post office. (I guess they are used to it, so they wondered.) 

Walking by the Ishikawa river towards Domyoji.

I crossed the bridge to walk towards Domyoji station.

This year's rabbit votive board.