Hanshin Tigers.

Nothing quenches the thirst in the hot summer months like beer. Drinking a beer in a stadium is the one of bestests. Now Tigers is in the first place. Marshal support from fans is the bestest in the world. I often lamented over their tameness until 2001. Tigers was floundering at that time. Almost every year, Tigers, the honorable team, were in the lowest place for more than 10 years. We never gave up them. We mustered ourselves. But Tigers got mired always. Tigers is a very unaccountable team. They have been enthralling many Osakans and Japanese.



What exacerbated Tigers is the popularity. Even if they lost, there are the good many fans in the stadium. The number never dwindled.



Hoshino Senichi, who was a field manager of Tigers and is a field manager of Japan's national team, called as 燃える男 (The glowing man), refurbished the team in 2002. His fighting spirits permeated into the team soon. He mesmerized fueled payers and got fans intoxicated. Tigers got the pennant in 2003. We turned back the place of us.



He was not a mere field manager. He elicited marshal support from up front, that was that other field players couldn't. He fueled even the degenerate up front. Nothing quenches the thirst like "win".



If you find the field manager, Hoshino Senichi, on TV, it is the hero of Osaka whom every Osakan respect.



Horosawa Katsumi sang Rokkou-Oroshi after a game.







Have a nice day.



I took the photo at Houkokuji.

About a teacher.

Today I bought a magazine of buddhist thought because I found one teacher I liked wrote for this month's issue. :-D This month's issue is "What mind is?". He explains on Buddha's pure mind. I can hear the good old voice from his article. He was the teacher of the teachers. He has a great narrative power. He always got me into his world. I want to attend to his class again if I can.



He was an interviewer of my entrance exams. I had a plan to take another university's exam though, I decided to enter the university because I became to like him. I talked openly about me at the test and he looked like had a good feeling toward me. I said "I was inspired in 6-school-philosophy too. " to him looked serious. He suspiciously said "Do you understand what they are explain? for example which ponint are you interested in?". I totally balled up and said "I'm sorry. I don't know much about it. 背伸びをしてしまいました。 (I've tried to say beyond my knowledge!)". I thought it was a big fault. But He suddenly smile from ear to ear and said "Haha! No problem! Trying to do beyond one's power is fine thing! Get going on it!". I said "But,,,,although I couldn't understand, I get interested in their way of thinking so much. For example whether cause includes result or not? I believe I need to study ways of thinking!". He said "Oh! Great!" Then the interview test had good ambience.



In his class, he taught me some very important things to study. "Attitude" was one of them. He said "Perspective to see things" and "Attitude to see things" are very different. People tends to mix up those two. I noticed one thing after the year. He often talked about religion philosophy along with my reports.



Well, I want to take a walk tonight. Have a nice week.



I took the photo at Houkokuji.

Just a blog in ideness.

Today I went to a department store and bought Hokkaido's 辛子明太子(Karashi-mentaiko) and イクラ(Ikura). I was born in Japan to eat Japanese food. All I could do is buying! Ha! In fact, I wanted to buy Rokkakutei's Butter Sand I mentioned before. But it had been sold out when I arrived at "Hokkaido Fair". I am eager to eat it!



Damp day today. Strong rain stalled me. I found an interesting text book on memorizing English words at a book shop. I ordered it on internet. I think I still keep more than 8,000 words in my brain. But often I get confused and the book can order my memory with brain science method.



My friend pointed I am wrong on usage of "interesting". I noticed I always say/write "I'm interesting in". Haha.



These days I'm very interested in native speaker's sense of language.

I was curious why native speakers are able to understand what Master Yoda says. And I felt I have to understand to be a better speaker when I met my friends in Tokyo. One of most difficult ones was inversion. "Never have I heard the word!" Emotion fronts "never" and "have". I couldn't felt same as native speakers. However "Did I see a gorgeous girl!" a text book explained was understandable. I likely overcome the difficulty. Did I buy Karashi-mentaikos! Never have I visited North Korea! Never have I supported prime minister Fukuda! Never have I hated you! Never have I felt monja-yaki is tasty! Never have I thought Tokyo is the capital of Japan!



Have a nice day.



I took the photo at Houkokuji

"About Snakes" and "Do a Japanese quiz"

It seems my neighborhood is being rural these years. The number of wild bird and fish and snakes are gradually increasing. Some years ago I saw a very very big snake called 青大将(Aodaishou). It was 2.5 meter in length, maybe around 3 meters. It was taking a bath in a river in one hot day. I had been watching the snake from a bridge above it and I realized the snake may be the deity of a shrine enshrines a snake near by. 2.5 meters in length is a too big as normal Aodaishou. He/She had a very beautiful green body more beautiful than any new green leaves and his/her red tongue was peeping up out of his/her mouth.



Last summer I saw lots of baby snake's death on the road got hit by cars. As I recall a snake bears around 30 eggs. That I saw a death of baby snake proves there are at least more than 30 snakes. I wrote "lots of death", that is, there may be hundreds snakes in my neighborhood. They will have been bigger than last summer and will have been awakened from winter sleep by now. I found many baby carp were swinging in a river that the snake lives. Hmm, will snakes eat them?



I couldn't understand what this sentence means soon today.



"The people I most wanted to be at my party didn't come. "



Question one :



御手洗が開けたその黄金に輝く西村がいちろうの箱の中にある竹中はんべいの鍵を取り出したとき鈴がもんはひらひらと階段から落ちた。



さて、どれが主語でしょう？

Which do you think is the nominative?



I think this is very difficult quiz for non-Japanese people. Don't worry even if you can't.



Have a nice day.



I took the photo at Houkoku-ji in Kamakura.