tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056599210263969567.post6196202809387994701..comments2024-01-23T03:52:54.149+09:00Comments on Anne Kaneko's Fukushima Blog: Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day)Anne Kanekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520490908508371344noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056599210263969567.post-65414384068866147212012-06-30T08:56:48.119+09:002012-06-30T08:56:48.119+09:00Hi
I'd intended to drive out there at the begi...Hi<br />I'd intended to drive out there at the beginning of June to see if you were right but didn't get round to it and no sightings from my friends in the area. But you are right and even if people don't put the streamers out then, they will celebrate as only then are the oak leaves out to wrap round the steamed cakes, and the iris leaves grown enough to put in the bath (shobu-yu), another Boy's Day tradition.Anne Kanekohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520490908508371344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056599210263969567.post-49528471255296653392012-05-13T14:15:19.466+09:002012-05-13T14:15:19.466+09:00May be you didn't see any Koi-nobori in the Ai...May be you didn't see any Koi-nobori in the Aizu area because they might celebrate the "Tango no Sekku" (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%AF%E5%8D%88) a monthly later on 5 June following the old calendar like the Chinese New Year. This is 25 years back, but the country folk on the outskirts of Koriyama tended to raise their spectacular Koi-nobori and battle flags in June rather than May. So may be you'll see Koi-nobori streaming in Aizu if you go there on June 5?Taknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056599210263969567.post-31492646062124266402012-05-10T00:18:39.004+09:002012-05-10T00:18:39.004+09:00Dear Anne
Excuse this sudden message but I heard a...Dear Anne<br />Excuse this sudden message but I heard about your blog via my sculptor friend who works both in Scotland and Iwate.<br />My name is Fumio Obata and I am a comic artist and illustrator in Edinburgh and I am Japanese.<br />Ever since the disaster struck I kept a picture daily on my blog from Edinburgh, mainly concerning the response of the media here until around the day 50. http://fumioworld.blogspot.co.uk/2011_04_01_archive.html<br /><br />Shamefully I couldn't keep up.<br /><br />But I always wanted to go back to the subject and find something more realistically fruitful.<br />Recently I got contacted by an Italian magazine Internazionale http://www.internazionale.it/<br />who gives about 2 pages to a comic artist to fill in.<br />And they want me to do one over Fukushima.<br /><br />I decided to return to Japan for a research and going to Miyagi prefecture for a volunteer work in late May,and draw the experience and rise some issues.<br />But I also wonder if I stop by Koriyama area, is it possible that we could meet up?I am interested in your view as a Briton, living in Japan during such a difficult time and what's at stake in your opinion. It's entirely up to you to get back to me and I can still absorb so much from your blog.Thank you and all your brilliant work is impressive.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />Fumio ObataAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07288148810763112672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056599210263969567.post-32092928886254548612012-05-09T08:53:53.605+09:002012-05-09T08:53:53.605+09:00Dear Anne, Could you please put this blog on your ...Dear Anne, Could you please put this blog on your links list http://fallout-protection.blogspot.com so that folks can learn about a way to be healthier in this new "hot" world? Thank You For Your Good Work, Pahl Dixon (pahldixon@yahoo.com)Pahl Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449203526304743394noreply@blogger.com