Tanabata night

The 7th of July is special day in Japan(and probably China and Korea too...tanabata for details..)
This day is my second favorite day of a year.First is New year's eve!Well,,,


I really like this traditional story of the day.
It's important and only day to meet Ori-hime(princess) and Hiko-boshi(prince) on a milky way of a year.
That's so romantic,isn't it?


Unfortunately,last night was raining.We though they could meet without any problems.Because they may lost their way because of much of clouds.

And some people write their wish on strips of colorful paper and hang them from a bamboo branches.
Like this:


The shrine I visited was "Tokyo-Dai-Jin-Gu".



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Before wishing,we have stand in line for praying.
There were many women because the shrine was said to be good for love(relationship?).
So if you want to marry there,it's possible:)

Actually I didn't write this,but I felt the same way.


--I wish tomorrow is also fine as always--

Thank you for reading:)


P.S.I'm going to visit outside of Tokyo next weekend!I can't wait it:D

Walk around Aoyama

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Yesterday,I saw interested works at  Watarium museum.

I started walking there and reached a street called Omote-sando.

I bought my new camera,so I was like a paparazzi><

There are very high trees on the street.In winter,every trees are illuminated:)
The street is famous for fashion.So you can see many people waring nice and unique clothes there(plus rich people too).
I was enjoying just watching them.


After that,I went to another place to do more important thing.


to be continued later....

Japanese characters

I always thought there were few designed Japanese characters in my PC.
When I make something with Japanese,I can't choose nice one.
Finally,I chose an alphabet characters if I didn't want to use it.


The other day,I listened about it by a person who works at a designed Japanese characters company.
Then I realized it was really really difficult to make new design of them.
At first,it officially needs 23,058 characters to publish.


23,058!?!?!?!?!?!?


And it takes over 5 years to commercialize.

Japanese usually use Hiragana,katakana and kanji.

I used to practice a lot to write them as a child,and the most difficult was kanji,of course.

Because there are over 100,000 and it doesn't stop.

We had a lesson to only write characters with ink brush.I just wrote them for an hour.

It was like a punishment for me><

A designer writes only one character many times by hand as above photo.
I can't imagine someone works this process about 30,000 times.Awesome...


I will always treasure this beautiful characters after knowing about it.