Yesterday, A sports day event was took place in my daughter's primary school.

A sports days event(Japanese: Undo-kai) is popular 

in Japanese primary schools.

The event has several dancing and racing. Parents go to 

the schoolyard to watch the event, and The members of a family 

eat lunch on the yard together. 

(It depends on each school whether eating together or not  )  

I'd like to introduce the event to you with some pictures.

Oodama okuri
Students carry a big ball by rolling or handling above their heads. 

The scene in the events
Students watch every event performed by the others.
Fling carps can be observed over them.

Tama-ire
Ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole.

Speaking of amusement park staple

I explained that the Jindai temple is

one of the amusement parks.

Many snakes are sold in the down town.

I'll show you some foods. Maybe there were

staples once upon a time. 

Last Sunday, we visited a fomous temple to eat Soba

ThJindai-ji temple is a famous temple.
Some current temples are a kind of
amusement places.

The close up of Soba.
The downtown of the Jindai-ji temple is well- now
as being to be able to tasty Sobo.

The process of making the Temaki-sushi

I'd like to explain how to make the Temaki-sushi

It's so easy to make them.

This's a plain dish. Temaki-sushi is made on this.

Nori is laid on this dish.

Rice is laid on the nori.

Perilla and a filling are on rice. 

They are raped.

You can eat it with sho-yu (soy sauce) and wasa-bi(Japanese horseradish)

Another sample: ebi

Another sample: natto

Another sample: ika

The parts of Temaki-sushi(hand-rolled sushi)

Last night, we ate Temaki-sushi(hand-rolled sushi) in my house.

The way to make Temaki-sushi is very easy for everyone, but

 It would be difficult to do ti in the other countries without Japan.

It's because that eating raw fishes has possibility to lhave

 a person be damaged by some bacteria in general.

However, There are many professional workers dealing with

raw fishes (to make Sashime) in Japan. They take care of preventing 

customers from falling infectious disease. 

As a result, Japanese can eat delicious Sashime.

I'd like to introduce how we make Temaki-sushi.

This is my family's style. Maybe, there are millions of

the way to make it in Japan.

1, Sushi meshi, Sushi rice;
Rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt, used for preparing sushi

Close up

More close up

2, Nori
 Edible seaweed, esp. species Porphyra tenera and others of
 genus Porphyra, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

3, Shiso(the left of this picture)
a macrophyll

4-1, a kind of the filling; Natto
Fermented soybeans

4-2, a kind of the filling; Kyu-ri
a cucumber

  4-3, a kind of the filling; Ika in Japanasea squid

4-4, a kind of the filling; Ebi in Japanese
 a shrimp

4-5, a kind of the filling; Tai in Japanese
a sea bream

4-6, a kind of the filling; Akami in Japanese
a lean tuna

4-7, a kind of the filling; Tyutoro in Japanese
a medium fatty tuna

The central Tokyo has two parts; high land and low land.

Last my article, I wrote about the Kanda river.

Today, I'd like to writing the undulation in central Tokyo.

The below image is that. 

brown color indicates high lands(20-40m from sea level)

blue do low land(minus - 20m from sea level)

The empire's palace is located in the center of this image.

You can see that Tokyo has developed around the palace.

The Kanda river flows upper part in this picture

(from left to right). 

During the Edo era(AD 1600- 1868),

There were several classes there.

The typical groups were Bushi(samuraia warrior） and

Syo-nin(merchant).

Bushi tended to live in the high land, and

Syo-nin tended to live in the low land.

That's because the low land was attacked by

many floods.

That is, segregation by class were present in that time. 

Thinking about necessity of the nuclear power plant in the world

Today, I'll describe that my opinion for operation of

nuclear power plants. I'm against the operation of them.

In old days, people believed that the nuclear power plants
 could make huge energy cheaper than current power plants.

  

However, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was broken

 by the Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011).

Japan has a big negative heritage in Fukushima.
The Japanese government is spending a lot of money
to restore disaster areas. 

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is called

as Mark 1 made by GE company, that's so old. 

I think an up-to-dated nuclear generator with safety

equipment should be able to avoid a large-scaled disaster.

 Therefore,I don't want to mention about technical issues.

I want to reject to operate nuclear power plant from the

economical viewpoint.

Nowadays, several types of power generation way are
compared as the economical issues.

I found below graph on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

(This article doesn't have Japanese version)

I can see the way of nuclear power generation as expensive way of generating energy.

Recently,  sometimes I find some articles that have same way of thinking.

Especially, radioactive wast is the worst poison for all living things.

Human-being can't find the way of detoxification of it.

The strange outlook of The Kanda river

Following yesterday, I'd like to write about

 the route of the Kanda river.

I put an another angle of 3D map picture below.

The Kanda, which flows from left side to right, is drawn in blue.

The brown part is higher than green part.

It's easy to see how strange the Kanda route is.

You can see the Tokyo Dome in upper left in this picture.

Tokyo Dome is located nearby such a wonder undulation.

useful 3D software

I'll continue to write about the Kanda river.

I have a 3D map software in my computer.

It can describe an undulation on a land from

calculation from a altitude date.

I'll try to compare between the real photos and

the generated 3D photos. 

Photo 1. The real scene:
There are a hill there, and the Kanda river penetrates
the hill.

Photo 2. Close to the river.
You can see big walls laid at both shores.

Photo 3. the generated 3D photo
The center blue line shows the Kanda river.
The upper side oｆ this photo is the downstream direction.
The green area is lower altitude than the brawn area.
The Kanda river goes through the hill, it appears unnatural
because it would be easy to follow to turn left, going to lower land. 

What a deep forest there is in central Tokyo!

When I walked around along the Kanda river on last Sunday,

I saw a big forest by the river. The fact gave me a little surprise.

It's because I imaged there are only buildings and roads.

(I grew up in a local area in Japan, so I don't know a detail

of the geometrical future in the central Tokyo district).

The central Tokyo has two parts; the mountains side and

the flat sea-level side.

Each side has a individual history from the EDO era to now.

This forest is located in the mountain side. I recognize 

Tokyo still remains green in shrines, temples and parks.  

(attention: "the central Tokyo" is defined as inside annular JR line,

 Yamanote line by me)  

↓　google map

https://www.google.co.jp/maps/place/%E6%B0%B4%E7%A5%9E%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE/@35.7119121,139.7339045,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x9fc57593b8f812e0

I ate a tasty cake.

Last Sunday, we went to a cake shop.

I chose this pudding cake, which have fleshy fruits,

such as some strawberries, kiwis, blueberries.

I like to eat a kind of fruitcakes, because

without fruit, it would be so sweet that

 I can hardly eat it completely.

When I was single, I seldom ate cakes, however,

recently, I have eaten a kind of cakes almost

once a week. it seems to be unbelievable to me.

The final distinction: the Kanda myoujon shrine

The Kanda myoujin was  my finale destination of the trip on last Saturday.

The shrine is located on the border between

uptown and downtown at that time(Edo era).

The Kanda myoujin is located nearby the Ochanomizu Sta at JR line
in the central Tokyo.

The entrance, which is magnificence.

The Confucius statue

Layout of the shrine