Tokyo Station Restoration Completed

Tokyo Station Restoration Completed  

TANAKA Akio


                                        

Tokyo Station has been completed restoration work yesterday at 1 October 2012. The station is probably most favourite station in Japan for me. From my student times I have used it innumerably. In the late 1960, in my student days, the station's main gate Marunouchi was rather calm and lonesome except rush hours of business persons.

Now the situation has vastly changed. It has become the most wonderful station and around the station has also most lively space from early morning till late night. I love the atmosphere of this station and its around.

The bookstore Maruzen close Marunouchi gate is my pleasurable space for update information on near 2 million books published in Japan and abroad. If you come to Japan, please see the station and go outside to the Imperial Palace some 10 minutes walk from Marunouchi gate. You can appreciate the both faces of modern and classical Japan. Probably it will be the fantastic experience on Japan.

Tokyo Station was constructed at 5 December 1914. The original station was burnt at 25 May 1945 by the Tokyo attack of the World War 2.

 Newspaper advertisement of the Tokyo Station, 
Date: 1 October 2012

                         

                                                  
 Tokyo
 2 October 2012
 Sekinan Research Field of Language

Lotus Flowers at Royal Gift Ueno Park, Tokyo

Lotus Flowers at Royal Gift Ueno Park, Tokyo

TANAKA Akio

                   

Lotus flowers are always beautifully bloom at the pond of the Tokyo National Museum, Imperial-gift Ueno Park , Tokyo. When I was a student of the university, I frequently went to see the garnered items of the some museums located in the park. The photo was taken at 25 May 2011.

I also like the National Museum of Western Art in the Ueno park, that was designed by Le Corbusier. This lotus photo’s colour is a little similar with the Monet’s paintings themed on lotus flowers.

Tokyo
18 July 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language

Hanno, Saitama Revisited

Hanno, Saitama Revisited  

TANAKA Akio

                                     
Today I and wife went to Hanno, Saitama that is located at the next to my home town, north-west of Tokyo . The city was the very intimate place for some dear fiends of high school days.

We were always play in home town in the long vacations of summer, winter and spring, but sometimes using bicycles we went to Hanno to play the baseball at the city ground and see the Iruma River that flows the centre part of the city and rarely learnt the vacation work at the old city library alike a tiny elementary school building.

Along the bicycle road used to go and back, fantastic silver grasses were calmly swaying in the Autumn wind. We run fast the slope road seeing the rail road at right side. Occasionally  we met the diesel train.

Today I went there with wife, with whom I went camping or barbecue at the river side far old days together with two children. Now they are already growing up and working in the central Tokyo. I and wife are enough old and feel tranquil seeing the river and the hills behind.

When the children were very young, we let them buy some confectioneries at the river side tiny shops that are still remain in the same old style. The time flew fast and all afar went. The river is only sparkling with same beauty.

Tokyo

5 October 2012

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Old Shops in Home town

Old Shops in Home town 

TANAKA Akio 

                                        

My home town belongs Metropolis Tokyo, located at the west suburb, some 40 km afar. I was born and  grew up here, so many tiny shops were very intimate and to them I have dear feelings.

There are some old shops still now, where in the boy's days I bought the daily use things for being ordered by mother sometimes from father. The remained styles of them are now all off-painted wall, unreadable signboards and rough roofs. Nowadays people including with my family always go to the big supermarket or shopping mall having very wide parking lots. Old main roads and shops decline day by day. It is surely modern social phenomenon. But we that know the ever busy conditions of the shops, feel very sad and lonesome.

                        Glossary shop unopened now
                    Tokyo 30 October 2012, Sekinan Library

Aster in the Garden For Mother

Aster in the Garden 
For Mother

TANAKA Akio  

                                        

In the garden, there is a tiny root of aster, that was ever also blooming in my old home. My mother made much of it. So the flowers had increased year by year.
Recently in my garden, I found out that the way of mother was one of the most important style for really loving the flowers. The tiny root someday will become more flourishing without clearly noticing if one really cultivate it. This truth is the gift from mother, noticing much too late for me.

Tokyo
30 November 2012
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At Bank of Dam Again

At Bank of Dam Again 

TANAKA Akio 
                                       
 At bank of dam we conversed with friends on many innocent themes in our youth days. Long time ago the place was the sight of the fireworks, for which father took me and elder sister to see in the summer night. When returning home you perfectly slept soundly at father’s back, the sister said to me later.
 After some thirty years after, we came again with the family to play in the fallen leaves at the bank of dam. Children were rolling down at the slope of the bank wearing golden leaves on the clothes.
 And after half a century we have come again at the bank with wife protecting leg’s slight pains each other.

Tokyo
16 July 2012
Sekinan Research Field of Language