Time goes by slowly

The comfortable days just keep coming lately. Today, I dropped by on my way with my baby and went home from nursery school. We looked at flowers, my baby sat down on a stone, and we saw Fushimi Momoyama-jo Castle.

Children grow up so quickly, so I want to enjoy the time I'm together with him.

 

 

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551 Horai

I got some takeout gyoza and butaman (Japanese steamed buns) at "551 Horai" .There is it between the JR Kyoto line tickets gate and the Kintetsu Kyoto line tickets gate. I sometimes buy that for dinner when I didn't have enough time to making dinner. I bought the shrimp shu-mai this time. Shrimp were fully contained that and that was delicious, so I will buy that next time.

 

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Yakult factory

Yakult is a Japanese probiotics company. I inspected the Yakult factory in Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture with members of a study group. We got there in 2 hours by car.

I didn't know that people of 23 countries drink Yakult, and especially that Korean people drink more than anywhere else in the world.

There were a lot of belt conveyors, big tanks, and robots in the factory. The products were made almost automatically and hygienically.
The displays were written in Japanese and English, and the animation of the explanation can be viewed in English, Korean, and Chinese as well as Japanese.

The founder of Yakult is Dr. Minoru Shirota. He entered Kyoto Imperial University's School of Medicine in 1921. He proposed that people become healthy and long-lived by the health of the bowel. Lactic acid bacterium of Yakult attracts attention because of the prophylaxis of cancer and infection.

I'm glad to know that the study in Kyoto is helpful for people of the world.

Introduction of my parents

My father is over eighty. His work is housework and tending our garden. He likes eating and talking. He is going to weight training twice a week, so he is fine.

My mother can do various things, such as Ikebana (arrange flowers), Way of Tea (Japanese tea ceremony), dressmaking, cooking, Kitsuke (how to wear kimono).

Both of them like inviting friends over, so please drop in for a cup of coffee when you stay at our guesthouse.

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My favorite work

There is a favorite work of mine in the entrance of my house. I wrote this with a ball-point pen more than five years ago. This work is made up of several poems of the seasons and love of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu(a hundred poems by a hundred poets). I was able to write it more comfortably with the ball-point pen than with a writing brush. I thought that it was too big when it was completed, but I could display it in the entrance hall. What will I write next time?

Relax salon "Bodyimpact"

I went to get a relax salon "Bodyimpact" in Otesuji shopping street yesterday. I get a massage once a month. The therapist in charge of me is always Ms. Ito. She is the highest technical therapist I have ever met. My stoop became an erect posture. She can do therapy in English. If you are acquainted with me, she will give discounts. Why don't you get her therapy too?

Guardian deity of children

There were many guardian deities of children around my house about 200m at the rate of one. Local residents are taking care of the guardian deity of children with a display of flowers and keeping it clean. In summer, a Jizo Bon festival (guardian deity of children's festival) is held by local residents every year. My children look forward to playing festival games and passing of the prayer beads ceremony and eating a watermelon at the Jizo Bon festival.