the local autumn festival

The synchronized dancing robots 'go, fight, win!'

Meet the Murata Cheerleading robots. Thursday components maker Murata Manufacturing unvalied these robots that look like a cartoonish girl sporting a red skirt and short black hair. A series of rollers under the skirt keep the robot balanced on a ball or rotate it in a particular direction to move around. Under the afro, meanwhile, nestles an infrared sensor and ultrasonic microphones that help the robot detect objects nearby. Three gyro sensors control motion from front to back, side to side and in rotation.
Murata plans to showcase its cheerleaders at the Ceatec tech expo from Oct. 7 to 11.

Sagawa Art Museum

The exhibition on Hokusai KATSUSHIKA and Henri Rivière at Sagawa Art Museum.

bento box from Kyoto

Next time i go to Kyoto, I would like to check out this shop Bento&co.

Sushi socks

take them off and roll them into sushi rolls. They are from Sukeno.

'Rock Garden' from Ryoanji

The garden is a rectangle of 248 square meters. Fifteen stones of different sizes are placed within it, surrounded by white gravel, which is carefully raked each day by the monks.
The stones are placed so that the entire composition cannot be seen at once from the veranda. They are also arranged so that when looking at the garden from any angle (other than from above) only fourteen of the boulders are visible at one time. It is said that only through attaining enlightenment would one be able to view the fifteenth boulder.

Ryoanji temple

Ryōan-ji (The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) is located in northwest Kyoto.
The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden.
you go up the mountainous path from the gate through maple trees to the ‘rock garden’.

Flash Kicker exhibition

Are you enjoying the FIFA world cup?
The exhibition of Captain Tsubasa aka Flash Kicker, is on until July 6 at
The Ueno Royal Museum . Don't miss the video @ the site above.
Yes, he is originally from Japan, although he has gone international.

glass craft from Kyoto

found a glass craft shop in Kyoto. These are paper weights decorated by etching.
The motifs are often beauties found in nature around us, such as flowers and birds.