Improvise life The origin of the word “improvise” consists of “im”,” pro”, and “vise”. “im” means “not”, pro means “before”, and “vise” means “vis”,”

There is a settlement site attesting to some 6 thousand years of sedentism by Jomon people from 7000 BCE to 1000 BCE in Kakinoshima, Hakodate. In the

What is the North Star? I asked a curator at the Kakinoshima Site about ancient people. When I asked him how the ancient people knew which direction w ...

Long, long, long, long time ago rice! The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Koizumi, has finally decided to release 2,020-year-old ric ...

The finale of The Painted Bird. I’ve finished reading the novel The Painted Bird. The story is about a Jewish boy who was taken in by an old woman in

According to the Weather Office's classification, June 1 marks the start of the spring season. Today, June 3, it’s cloudy. I’m going on a two-day trip ...

The Flow of Time The opening sentence of Hōjōki begins with this phrase: "The flow of the river never ceases, and the water never stays the same." The ...

Mushroom Hunt (original writing) Minamihama welcomes those who are going to join the mushroom-collecting tour. He is the president of an elderly care

Today, I’m feeling down because of the “Translation Loss”. A year ago, I decided to translate a novel at least one page a day and selected the book “T ...

“Human Sausage” by Yumeno Kyūsaku https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000096/files/2106_14250.html Harukichi is a skilled carpenter. He went to Formosa to ...

How to memorize the Japanese numbers? 1(itchy) 2(knee) 3(sun) 4(yawn) 5(go) 6 (lock) 7(nana) 8(hatch) 9(queue) 10(jyu) Imagine it is a morning. You a ...

“Osei Appears“　by Edogawa Ranpo https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001779/files/57504_62544.html Kakutaro has contracted tuberculosis and knows he can’t l ...

I bought a digital memo pad a month ago. Before then, I had written my note on the blank side of printed papers. I thought how I come to be eco eco-fr ...

"Gahoujin" (I meet people) In Tsurezuregusa by Yoshida Kenko, it says, "There are three types of good friends. First, a friend who gives me somethin ...

Who Am I？ I was trying to make my name cards for fun. I remembered the story about a photographer. A young man asked the famous photographer, “How can ...

https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000050/files/3407_19566.html On a summer day, a man named Gakuenn came to a village and saw a beautiful woman. He told

Understanding of Nature has a Dialectical Structure I read news that the Kyushu University research team discovered the gene determining the color of

Please read this short story. https://americanliterature.com/author/philip-k-dick/short-story/the-eyes-have-it/ We believe we can transfer information ...

There was a time when I believed that the story of the "boiled frog" was true. The "boiled frog" is a warning that, under gradual changes in the envir ...

Is “The Painted Bird” a Truth? I’m reading a novel, “The Painted Bird” by JERZY KOSINSKI. In this novel, he writes that a bird painted in colors is a ...