Fukuroi Local Museum

Hamamatsu City Walking Tour I City of Music

Hamamatsu is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture,Japan.
As of March 1, 2018, the city had an estimated population of 795,350 with 30,000 registered foreigners.

Hamamatsu styles itself Japan's city of music. There are even locally-manufactured pianos in the shinkansen station to prove it. Hamamatsu is home to a number major musical instrument manufacturers, as well as music schools, and even music festivals.

Asian Art Museums Japans Early Ambassadors 1860-1927

Japan's Early Ambassadors to San Francisco, 1860--1927

May 4 -- November 21, 2010

San Francisco, CA, March 30, 2010: Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the ship Kanrin Maru and the first Japanese embassy to the United States, Japan's Early Ambassadors to San Francisco, 1860--1927 focuses on some of the first Japanese diplomats and cultural emissaries in San Francisco, and how they responded to the experience of being in America. It highlights more than 40 artworks and other visual media associated with the first mission, with travel to the U.S., and with Japanese artists and cultural leaders active in San Francisco between 1880 and 1927. The thematic exhibit—on view in the museum's Japan galleries—addresses the personal and artistic challenges faced by these artists, which included discriminatory practices and attitudes, and an anti-Japanese movement tied directly to the 1924 Exclusion Act prohibiting further immigration from Japan. The exhibit culminates with a presentation of two of the Friendship Dolls sent to San Francisco as goodwill ambassadors from Japan in 1927, part of an orchestrated response to this law. Together, the artworks on view demonstrate both San Francisco's significance in the early years of Japan-U.S. relations as well as its role as a destination and as a gateway to the West for Japanese coming to America.



Japan's Early Ambassadors is divided into three sections: 1) Arrival of the Kanrin Maru and the First Japanese Embassy, 1860; 2) Early Japanese Cultural Ambassadors and Artists in San Francisco; and 3) Ambassadors of Goodwill: The Friendship Dolls of 1927.

The first section focuses on the 1860 diplomatic delegation that arrived in San Francisco on two ships, the Kanrin Maru and the USS Powhatan, as well as circumstances that led up to the mission and its aftermath. The ships carried a number of figures who played important roles in the modernization of Japan, including Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835--1901) and Nakahama John Manjiro (1827--1898). The featured artwork on view in this section is a rare, handwritten diary manuscript by one of the samurai retainers on the mission, illustrated with sketches of San Francisco in 1860. Also featured are paintings from the Black Ship Scroll documenting Commodore Perry's opening of Japan six years earlier, and some of the diplomatic gifts the delegation brought to San Francisco.

The second section spotlights on artists and cultural ambassadors who came to San Francisco in the earliest years of Japanese emigration and made the Bay Area their temporary or permanent home. Cultural ambassadors highlighted in this section are: Makoto Hagiwara, who served as the caretaker of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park for over 25 years; artist Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama (1885-1951), who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and produced America's first graphic novel entitled The Four Immigrants Manga which documents the hardships experienced by Japanese immigrants in the first quarter of the twentieth century; painter Toshio Aoki (also known as Aoki Hyosai, 1853--1912), who drew on his traditional Japanese training to produce baroque imagery that appealed to Californian patrons and also reflected contemporary Meiji painting trends; and painter Chiura Obata (1885--1975), whose images of California integrated formal art training in Japan with lessons from contemporary American artists and first-hand observation of local scenery. Obata went on to become a renowned and beloved teacher of painting at U.C. Berkeley. For all of these artists, creative work had to straddle two worlds, balancing lessons from the West with artistic issues relevant back in Japan. Competing with non-Asian residents in public and civic spheres of activity, they participated in a discourse full of both trials and triumphs on what it meant to be Japanese in America.

Town Lights Shizuoka

Evening View, Shizuoka City 10 Nov. 2012

Spiffy Places to See in Japan: Aizu Fukushima Part 1

My Trip In March to Aizu of Fukushima Prefecture.

Myself and Coworker Joel decided to road trip it north for a weekend of Onsen and Sightseeing. In this video we visit the Okawa Onsen Resort, Ouchijuku (old trading post town) and Aizu Castle.

To get to Aizu the best way is to rent a car but you need a international or Japanese license to do it. Car rentals are cheap, usually ranging from 70-100$ a day including gas and Freeway tolls. We personally like to use NicoNico Rent a car.

Fukishima is in dire need of tourism money since the 2011 earthquake so I encourage everyone to go, we had a great time, helped support the local community and enjoyed the sights and nature of the area. We at no time felt unsafe and didnt sweat the radiation issue. We didnt want that to stop us from having a good time and doing what we can to help stimulate the local economy.

Have any questions or comments feel free to leave them on the video or messege me!

Lost in Japan (Tokyo)

Exploring the capital city of Japan.

Shibuya
Disney Sea
Ramen museum (Yokohama)
Cup noodle museum (Yokohama)
Odaiba
Tokyo One Piece Tower

Go Go!!!!!shizuoka 1 วัน ไปกลับโตเกียว ไร่ชา ท่าเรือ ทะเล จิบิมารูโกะ

จากโตเกียว ไป จ.ชิซูโอกะค่ะ ไม่น่าเช่ือนะคะ ว่าที่นี่จะมีที่เที่ยวเยอะมากๆ เสียดายคราวนี้มีเวลาแค่วันเดียว ไม่งั้นต้องตามเก็บให้หมดแน่ๆเลยค่ะ
ครั้งนี้ ก้อถือว่า วันเดียวก็คุ้มแล้วนะคะ โดยเมย์ไปที่ ไร่ชา nihondaira ก่อน โดยขึ้นรถบัสหน้าสถานีเลย ทางขึ้นเขา ผ่านมหาวิทยาลัยชิซูโอกะด้วย เราต้องนั่งสุดสาย ลงเดินไปอีกนิดก็ถึงค่ะ
ต่อมาเราลงเขามาที่สถานีเดิม ไปต่อท่าเรือ และตลาดปลา ซึ่งมีร้านปลาดิบเยอะมาก แถมราคายังถูกๆๆๆๆ และสดอีก ต้องมาลองกันนะคะ ร้านที่มาลอง อ่านไม่ออก 55 แต่ตามรูปเรย บรรยากาศดีกว่าร้านอื่นๆ ลูกค้ามาตลอด
กลับสถานีต่อรถบัสไปทะเล มิโฮะ หาดทรายสีดำ แต่ไม่มีคนเลยย ทำไมนะเหรอคะ เพราะมันไม่มีอะไร เป็นที่เงียบๆ และลงบัสต้องเดินอีกแต่ไม่ไกลมาก
และยังคงกลับสถานี เพื่อไปหา มารูโกะ โดยออกประตูตะวันออก รอรถของห้าง รับส่งฟรีตลอด ถึงสามทุ่มกว่า ขอบคุณเพื่อนๆที่ติดตามรับชมค่ะ

MELON SMASHING IN KABUKICHO | Summer in japan

The Doga TV boys head out of the office to nearby Kabukicho, Shinjuku Aka the red light district of Japan to go smash some melons.

Suika-wari is a fun little tradition in Japan where you smash open a watermelon blindfolded to beat the summer heat. Summer in Japan is quite hot and humid and nothing helps more than some watery waterMELON!!!!

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