midnight theater

watched ‘Midnight Cowboy’
.
heard some critic speaking highly of it.
it's about nyc 50 years ago.
an old song goes Tokyo Desert but definitely not as lonesome as it is in the movie.
it felt just like being thrown out in the space.
both the music and image were sharp.
the two leading actors also impressed me.
it sent chills down my spine.

Ume no hana

We don’t make as much fuss over plum trees as cheery blossoms after all.
They are not showy flowers.
but that is the beauty of them.
they bloom sometimes under snow, and hold long making viewers feel warm.

sakuramochi was sold out at 18:50

speaking of Valentine's day,
girls used to give chocokates to guys to show their affecion, or just as casual greetings.
Now, they make lines for expensive high quality chocolate for themselves or to exchange with their female friends .
they get along with each other that way
and make confectionary industry happy too.

early spring __snowy

How many times it snows this year?
BESIDEDS, the lunisolar calendar says it's spring now! the winter has gone. Beens have been thrown, and the demons have been warded off. so should have...

peel it?

in terms of sakuramochi,
i eat it with the leaf on.
I like it that way.
when i ate LauLau, a hawaian food, did i eat the taro?
i doubt...

seasonal treats

sakuramochi consists of a sweet pink mochi and red bean paste, and covered with a leaf of sakura.
They are available only from January to march, which is ahead of the actual sakura bloom season. Leaves are salted from the previous seasons. Its magnetic aroma comes from organic compounds called coumarin. Anyway, it’s so chewy yummy I would say that is my soul food.

poetry on the drink

this is one of the common green tea products.
one thing about this is haiku works on the side of the bottle.
they are selected from more than 1.7million entries.
the contest has divisions of underage, 20s~40s, 40s and older, and of english as well.

110 is the emergency number

this indicates a shelter children who run into trouble out there can turn to.
an indivudual household plays a role of 'koban' police box.
these posts were supposed to be passed on in the community but this one has been here for more than 10 years.
no case of trouble as far as i remember.
May security last long.

right to left

in manga in japanese, lines(what characters say) are basically written vertically.
and books starts from right end(which goes copletely other way round from non-japanese books).
This bilingual version have English lines centered, and yet starts from the right end toward the left. kind of funny way.