Tag: sightseeing
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Reasonless to Reason Thus [Shakespeare For You]
🎭Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. Is it mine eye, or Valentine’s praise, Her true perfection, or my false transgression That makes me reasonless to reason thus? — Proteus, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2-4 [ACTING TIPS] Proteus…
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Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and “Too Low A Mistress” [Shakespeare For You]
Enjoy the beautiful wisteria in Kameido Shrine, Tokyo, with fun phrases from Shakespeare.
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Kameido Shrine with Wisteria, and With Good Grace To Grace A Gentleman [Shakespeare For You]
Tokyo is in beautiful flower season. Here is Kameido Shrine with wisteria. Enjoy the scenery with phrase on a gentleman should be in Shakespeare.
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Fire That’s Closest Kept Burns Most Of All [Shakespeare For You]
Two women conversation on love, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Check the acting tips.
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When Fortune Means to Men Most Good [Shakespeare For You]
🎭 When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. — Cardinal Randulph, King John 3-4 When you think you are successful and the fortune is on your side, always be aware that she (Fortune) betrays you in a minute. This phrase was said to an unfortunate person who…
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Japanese Spring with Plum Blossoms
Before anything, I must express my heart filled with sorrow for the people in Ukraine.I am against any form of violence.Though I know violence is quite a main and entertaining part of performing arts, the reason I am in the perfroming art is to make the world peaceful. By saying that, today, I am going…
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Tenkawa Dai BenzaiTen
Travel Japan with ELICA MIWA. This is a very rare place. Not many people, even a Japanese, actually visit, for the place is located really deep in the mountains in deep Nara. It is TenKawa Dai BenZaiTen Shrine.This shrine is the head of all shrines for performing arts!(BenZaiTen is the name of the god of…
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Plum Blossoms in Odawara
Before I deliver this blog, I must share my deep sorrow and prayer for UKRAINE who suffer without a reason. I cannot pretend as if nothing is happening and write my usual blog. But at the same time, one may need to stay calm and bless the world. Though the wind and politics are savage,…
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The Oldest Shrines in Japan: Miwa Jinja
Do you know the oldest shrine in Japan?It is Miwa Jinja in Nara. (“Jinja” means “shrine”.)As you might have guessed, my name is given from this shrine.Last summer in Japan, the pandemic eased down for a few months, and I took the opportunity to visit there.Enjoy watching!
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AshiNo-Ko, Lake at Hakone
You may have heard of Mt. Fuji.There is another great sightseeing spot near Mt Fuji called Hakone. The Name Hakone is the name of an active volcano and there is a huge crater lake called AshiNo.We Japanese call it as AshiNo-Ko.“Ashi” is “reed”.”No” is “of”.”Ko” is “lake”.Yes, the lake of reed, Reed Lake. How to…