Saturday, March 10, 2007

Artistes etrangers a Paris

I went to The National Art Center in Tokyo with my parents to see some works which I wanted to see. Now The national art center gives an exhibition which cellections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. You can see famous artists works of course like Picasso, Chagall, Leonard Foujita etc., and others too. I haven't been to Centre Pompidou when I've been to Paris, so I was looking forward to see this exhibition.
The works are interesting, you can see paris through photos, paintings, videos from different point of view and also strange stuff which is a little difficult to understand(for me)...but anyway I enjoyed it of course.
I took some pictures of the national art center. This art center is new in Tokyo, a modern building, and you can have french cuisine in there if you want :)

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Happy Girl's day!

Here in Japan, it was "ひな祭り(Hinamatsuri)" today. Hinamatsuri is a day of traditional festival for girls.
What we do on this day in Japan? Well, people who has daughters celebrate this festival, like decorating "Hina dolls", eating "Hishimochi(a kind of japanese cake)" or special dishes, drinking "Shirozake(white sake made from sake and malted rice)", well it depends on a family custom but something like this. When I was a kid, we also decorated "Hina dolls" at home from a week before Hinamatsuri to the day of Hinamatsuri. You have to put it back in the box the day after because people say "If you didn't put it back in the box earlier, daugher can not get married when they grown up". Well ok, it's a kind of superstition, maybe old people hoped their daughter will have a happy life.



So anyway, we had "Temaki zushi" for dinner to celebrate this festival. Well except that, I didn't do anything special... I just enjoyed having japanese food :P

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