Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa

I went to the Shiseido Art House last Sunday, 6th August 2023. The museum is located near Kakegawa station in Shizuoka, Japan. As expected, it was superb. The 4th of the 'Craft for All of Us II' exhibition series. The concept of the exhibi…

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#クレドポーボーテ #シナクティフ #浄化創生 #シナクティフ体験レポーター #シナクティフリニューアル一周年記念第一弾 #PR #コスレポ 6アイテム2日間サンプルセット もちろん、使い心地満点。4月のこの季節、お陽さまが明るいせいなのか、シミがグッ…

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I love the 朝ドラ ‘おかえりモネ‘ for the loving, kind and reassuring relationships the heroine builds with those involved in her life, especially Suganami sensei, of course, and others. However, this week it was a disappointment solely bec…

After a long and merciless rainy season, comes a summer.

Summer garden beauties and curiosities Common thyme. Neatly organised eggs by a probably meticulous parent I do not know and not so meticulous a parent whom I do not know either. A sunflower, which has been nearly eaten up by somebody befo…

After a long and merciless rainy season, comes a summer.

Summer garden beauties and curiosities Common thyme. Neatly organised eggs by a probably meticulous parent I do not know and not so meticulous a parent whom I do not know either. A sunflower, which has been nearly eaten up by somebody befo…

morning glory

morning glory What a glorious gradation of shade it has! it looks like something done by a skillful dyer. in fact it is a morning glory, of a dwarf or droopimg kind.

tulips

from our vegetable patch

We sowed seeds on 15 Feb. Now they are growing; spinatches, komatsuna, radish, mini bok choy, leaf lettuce, rucola, etc. We thinned out some, which were for lunch. with salt and olive oil

voile creme correcteur

I did like Amanda Seyfried as the face of Cle de peau. She is the ideal beauty with her thoughtful and bright green eyes. I wish she were with them, but she is with Lancome now! I realized yesterday. I am writing this as one of CLE DE PEAU…

better taken

Lots of photos of the flowers in the garden. It's fun especially in March. White margaret, pink margaret, pink and white tulips, viola, etc. I paid attention to one of the trees not yet blooming, because it has a lump of mantes eggs. Looki…

Alice Exhibition at Shizuoka City Museum of Art

It is really a good exhibition to enjoy. It focuses on pictorial depiction of Alice through the ages. We had liked John Tenniel's. We had known Rackham, as B loves him, giving our daughter long time ago two of his Midsummer Midsummer Night…

Queen

before things started after the show ended Yes, I am a beginner fan - in fact, I watched the in-flight film when I went to Edinburgh in July 2019, much later than the generally called にわか fans watched it. I suppose most of the newly mad…

Shiseido Art House 2

At 2:00 in the afternoon there was a 'Gallery Talk' by the curator of the house. It was definitely good. She knows every detail of the exhibition and her talk shows her loving attention to the valued objects. It might be a matter of course…

Shiseido Art House and Corporate Museum with NUS and Shizuoka students 2019

The Corporate Museum takes us back to the days when CM songs and cosmetic seasonal campaign fascinated almost everyone -- nowadays young people do not watch TV, knowing very little about TV advertisements except those watched purposefully …

Yamaha with NUS and Shizuoka students

One day excursion on Friday 6 December 2019 In the morning we went to Yamaha Harmony Plaza. It was really a good factory tour, when there are those in the party who are eager to learn anything about music and musical instruments in additio…

Rugby

I am one of the 45,000 disappointed ticket holders who would have been delightedly excited at Toyota Stadium on 12 October 2019. The match scheduled on that day between New Zealand and Italy has become the first ever cancelled match in the…

All Blacks vs Italy

I have two tickets for the match between New Zealand versus Italy on Saturday 12th October 2019, Rugby World Cup, when a typhopn No. 19 is extected to hit Japan. There will be some announcement today by the organization. I hope there will …

cotton

I have participated in the growing cotton project by Factelier. Probably it is earlier than expected but some already splitted open and I have some soft white cotton wool harvested from the plants. In the cotton wool seeds are protected. I…

mantis on 7 July 2019

I realized I saw a small mantis more than one month ago. Is this him? Probably not. Can you recognize the green small onw? The leaves are shiso. How small he is!

mantis in action

look at the spider under his hands He is climbing up on the window magnificent He is paying attention to me! なんか文句ある、的?

small residents in the garden

Two of the most frequently encountered residents in the garden. Schlegel's green frog changes colours and he is brownish in the lower part of his body because he has been here on the brown window frame probably for a long time. The mantis …

Burrell Collection at Shizuoka

A part of Burrell Collection at Glasgow has come to Shizuoka. There is a very good BBC programme about Sir William Burrell: https://search.yahoo.co.jp/video/search;_ylt=A2RCxA7nbEpdzDsAwOuJBtF7?p=willam+burrell&fr=top_ga1_sa&ei=UTF-8 Large…

recovery

She is still weak and very thin, but she seems better. One day she can eat. The next day she vomits and cannot eat at all. This repeats.

Hillary

She is dying. She is a perfect cat. The only fault she has is that she has a weak stomach. She is agile and athletic, so she is not weak, but she cannot eat much; or I should say 'was' as she cannot eat enough now and has become too thin a…

Don Giovanni at 新国立劇場

At Covent Garden back in 1990s Thomas Allen as Don Giovanni grabbed me. He was a heart-throb and the Commandatore scene was heart-stopping. The recent 新国立劇場 Don Giovanni was, to me, dominated by Donna Elvira. It was her story. It was …

rucola in winter

The seeds companies do not recommend, but we have rucola in winter. Better than in summer as in warm months the leaves have too many (unwelcome) guests. The butterflies and other insects leave their descendants and the complete leaves are …

extravagance avoided extravagance avoided As I mentioned a tea master, the shop clerk showed me a really superior tea. It was an exquisite feast to the eyes and the nose. Taste? Of course he did not let me try. The price per 100 g: more th…