Tomo's Photography

Legs and Arm photography 腕と足

2018-05-08T13:43:00.002+09:00

Legs and Arm photography 腕と足　
Black and white, San Francisco, 2000

銀杏BOYZの峯田和伸、3ヵ月連続シングルと武道館公演について語る

2017-12-26T17:00:00.001+09:00

◆超速報!! 撮って出し!! 峯田和伸（銀杏BOYZ）登場！「南瓜とマヨネーズ」大ヒット記念トークショーイベント◆

2017-12-26T16:53:00.001+09:00

William J. O'Brien | 2017 Summer Series

2017-10-17T17:27:00.001+09:00

reference to watch later.

銀杏BOYZ - 光(PV)

2017-10-17T17:25:00.001+09:00

More photos from Kyoto trip #2

2017-08-20T15:25:00.000+09:00

Kyoto trip with my online classmate 京都　８月２０日

2017-08-20T15:20:00.000+09:00

I met my online classmate for the first time, and from Academy of Art University which I used to attend from 2000 to 2010 on campus and online. I was a photo major and switched to fine art after I went back to Japan.
She was one of my painting classmates. I saw her on sns but I have never met in person.
This is her first trip to Honsyu from Okinawa.
I took her to Harukus 16th floor view and then took her Kyoto Fushimi Inari and Kiyomizu temple which was under construction and little made me disappointed that I could not show them her and her friend, but we got along and it was fun day! 💓

サンフランシスコのアカデミーオブアート大学のオンライン時代の友達に会いました。私は２０００年から２０１０年まで写真学科から美術学科に所属していましたが、途中から日本からオンラインコースで勉強していました。
メリンダはペインティングのクラスのクラスメートでした。
彼女と友達は沖縄に住んでいて、今回が初めての本州の旅行でした。
大阪で会ったのでハルカスからの景色を見せてから、
京都の伏見稲荷と清水寺に連れて行きました。
清水寺は今工事中で残念でした。
でも、３人で気があったようなので、楽しかったです！

高知佐川町と須崎　８/12ー14

2017-08-12T11:51:00.000+09:00

すぐにではないですが、いつか移住したいな〜、なんて考えていて、高知が合うかなぁ、今回２回目の高知への旅に行ってしまいました。
それと、せっかく夏なので、海も見たいし、ということで、須崎市の物件も見せてもらいに行きました。
佐川の駅の近くは歴史地区で綺麗に石畳がされてあり、最初に町の説明を簡単に？聞き、いろんな不思議なエリアに連れて行ってもらいました。
お昼はビザやき体験、そのあと、川辺でバーベキューをしながら川遊びをしてマッタリして地元の人と交流していました。バーベキューの後は、本物の手彫りのかき氷や、藁の上でのカツオのたたきをいただきました。人がいっぱいいたので、遠慮して１つしか撮らなかったのでちょっと後悔。笑
途中で、綺麗がために結婚できずに早くなくなったお姫様の伝説のある、お墓をお参りしたり、黒岩地区の名前の由来になった、黒い岩も見ました。
二日目は、羊岩と言われる奇妙な岩にナウマン象と舞台がある場所に行きました。
途中で、ナウマン象の博物館も通り過ぎました。途中に妙にリアルな案山子がおりました。
私は５月のツアーでも行ったところもあったのですが、それでも知らないこともしれたので、よかったと思います。もうちょっと住まいや仕事の話を聞けたら、と思いました。

そうそう、温泉水。が湧き出るところがあって、手を洗ったら、つるつるになったので、ペットボトルに入れて帰りました。直接は飲めないですが、お風呂とかハーブティーにいいそうですよ。

ところどころカメラが暑さでイかれて、ipadで撮ったので、抜けている部分もありますがご覧ください。

ピザ釜

リアルカツオのたたき

移住者のカメラマンさん

Past photo Arizona

2017-08-06T10:16:00.001+09:00

My good memory, driving on Arizona and around.

洗濯機

2017-08-02T05:04:00.001+09:00

以前から脱水がおかしいので買い換えてあげようと思っていましたが、

結局親も無理して手搾りして熱中症になってしまい、

48年間頑張って使って来た洗濯機を買い換えることにしました。

今は全部は出せませんが一部工面したいと思います。

来た時は２層式でしたが、それから買い換えてずっと使っていました。

おじいさんが機械に強いので、当時では最新式のいいのだったのでは？、

と町の電気屋さんが言っていました。

無理言って、８月のセールの時で売れ筋の在庫がすぐなかったので、

8kgのインバータ付きのにしました。

部屋干し機能もついているので親も少しは楽になると思います。

その代わりいくつかおまけしてくれました。

明日が楽しみです。

Monterey Canning Company

2017-07-30T21:17:00.001+09:00

My old photo

Monterey Canning Company

It's used be on Steinbeck's story.

Kochi Niyodo river rafting 越知町　ラフティング

2017-06-26T19:16:00.003+09:00

写真残ってました。
５月２７日分です。
高知の移住コンシェルジュさんに頂いたものです。
越知町のリバーラフティングの一コマ。

越知町ソフトラフティング

2017-06-21T13:52:00.001+09:00

３時間のところ１時間のお試しだった予定がびっちり２時間程楽しんでしまいました。

ただし飛び込みだけは怖かった。苦笑…

Actually I am scared of heights...

Kochi JP

高知日曜市

2017-06-16T03:35:00.001+09:00

My new bike

2017-06-13T05:08:00.001+09:00

ちょっと体力の限界を感じて奮発してしまいました。

カナちゃんプレートもつけてもらいました。

最近は昼間から電気をつけて走らないといけないらしく消せないようになってるらしい。

とにかくペーパードライバーなので練習からです。

カブウフフ

Tea lecture お茶の入れ方

2017-06-11T08:47:00.001+09:00

仁淀川町の産業はお茶栽培だそうだ。

先輩移住者にお茶の入れ方を教えてもらう。

いの和紙 ino washi

2017-06-10T19:13:00.001+09:00

This place has everything

Handmade washi paper facility, restaurant, paper goods, hot spring, kayaking

Kochi Ino cho Japan

Tea farm 茶畑 5.28.17

2017-06-07T20:42:00.001+09:00

Tea farm

#仁淀川町 #佐川町 #高知県

県 #

Kochi station 5/7/17

2017-06-03T05:22:00.001+09:00

Anpanman benches

Tomato flower

2017-05-16T14:07:00.001+09:00

I bought one pot of tomato at a Michino eki (stop station and promoting local foods in a rural area) I planted in a little pot and it became bigger and had a yellow flower.

道の駅で買ったトマトに黄色い花がつきました。

今読んでみたい本

2017-04-29T00:36:00.001+09:00

ジブリの文学
ジブリアニメを作った人はどんな本を読んでいたのか？
気になります。😊

Frank Lloyd Wright　フランク　ロイド　ライト

2017-04-24T19:36:00.000+09:00

Here is my school essay regarding Frank Lloyd Wright.

Yodoko Guest House

There are fourteen building designs, which Frank Lloyd Wright has done in Japan. Six building were built, but two of them were destroyed by the 1923 Magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto earthquake (around Tokyo.)

Frank Lloyd Wright traveled outside of America for the first time, and went to Japan with his wife. There were 37 years old in the year, and he spent two months touring natural and historical landmarks from Nikko (North East of Tokyo) all the way down to (Shikoku island) Takamatsu.

He made a contract to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in late 1911. After a year of project delays and several trans-Pacific crossings, Wright finally took up part-time residence in Tokyo in January 1917. (Wrightian Architectural Archives Japan)

In 1918, Wright made a design plan for a second house for Tazaemon Yamamura who was the eighth-generation brewer of the famous sake “Sakuramasamurne,” in Nada (near Kobe.) It took a while to be completed, because he put this project aside to complete the Imperial Hotel. (which was done in 1922.)

The Yamamura house was completed in 1924 at a small hill in Ashiya City, Hyogo prefecture, surrounded in green. Asiya City is now known as an executive, upper-class residential area. From 1947, it became the property of Yodogawa Steel Works, LTD.., (known as YODOKO), and was used as an official residence for the company president. After a while renting to individuals, it designated a National Important Cultural Asset in May, 1974. It was repaired for preservation and started to open to the public as YODOKO Guest House.

Unlike his Midwestern Prairie houses, it was built by side of the hill top, (kind of like houses by the cliff at Malibu, CA) so four story building is kind of hanging along side of the hill which is surrounded by nature like Wright’s style, (cherry tress in particular.) The resident can get the best views from any floors’ balcony. I think that it is ecological thinking that he did not destroy the mountain to build the house. Actually, my housing area is at the bottom of mountain, and a real estate company literally cut out most of the part of the hill to build a house on a flat surface.

Another big difference of his style house in America is that there are three Japanese style rooms (can be open the sliding doors to connect in one room) on the third floorchiw h covered with tatami mats (straw-matted), and shoji doors (Japanese hand made paper sliding doors) and Shoji door closet. There were not his original design, but provided by a strong request from the client. I understand that the traditional sake brewer like Yamamura needed some place to sit down on the floor and relax. The construction of Japanese style rooms were carried out by Wright’s best disciples, Arata Endo and Makoto Minami, rather than Wright himself. I believe that collaborating with Japanese disciples made its original style.

Purpose:

According to the “Yodoko Guest House site,” Wright always used nature that is his concepts, and aimed at a unification of geography and buildings, and harmony with the surrounded environment… The building stands naturally along the slope without disturbing the ridgeline of the hill.” For approach to Yodoko Guest House, unlike it has an entrance near the road, the entrance is provided in the remotest part of the building. That intentionally made residents and visitors walk up to the entrance along the approach, as made them feel like they ended up arriving a mountain cottage like it is surrounded in nature.

Wright created the many large windows on the western side to bring natural light in the house. Eastern side of the salon on the second floor has a large window like a picture frame so that the scenery function as a painting in a frame. The window looks usual as an interior design without anything, so he attached a built-in couch right underneath of the window for visitors to enjoy. (see photo) There is a great view of Ashiya City and beyond from the balcony. (see photo) It said in the website “wide and spacious,” but I think he designed more spacious building in the U.S.. But since not many Japanese have a house with balcony, as a personal housing in Japan, it would be large enough. It has a chimney on top of the door which is noticeable to people look at the house from far bottom.

Materials :

He used particular materials using for this house. For the interior and exterior, Oyaishi stone which he sculpted (I mean, designed for) formative art of nature motifs. “Oyaishi” stone came from Oya-machi in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi prefecture which is also used for the Old Imperial Hotel. It look massive as other Prarie house, and it is also soft and easy to process for curving designs. I think it shows well as his experimentation of design in Japan about Mayan Revival architecture. (see Imperial Hotel, Tokyo site, and Mayan Revival architecture, wikipedia)

Wright designed a lot of built-in furniture everywhere in the house (it reminds me of Winchester house) including cabinet, shelves, and couches. Most of the furniture is made of mahogany, instead of local Japanese cedar, pine and cypress. This is because mahogany has inconspicuous grain than Japanese woods which is said that he think that their conspicuous grain would kill the decorative designs he created in each rooms. Note that geometric design table and chairs in the saloon on the second floor were designed by Yodoko, which they tried to match with the mahogany furniture, and made them based on Wright’s design philosophy.

Lastly, most of the building is made of concrete, but clay wall is used in several interiors, including the east side of entrance wall, the walls on the west side of the Japanese-style rooms, and the northern side stairs of the Japanese-style room on the third floor. The clay wall is a typical Japanese wall construction technique for wooden buildings where in clay is coated onto frames made by tried together (meshed) bamboo trees. This method was actually done by Wright’s disciple Endo and Minami. Clay walls are strong even though they are thin, so that rooms can be made bigger. (Opposite of his Middle Western Prairie house, think of a small island need a lots of space for population of almost as same as the U.S.) They also function to protect tatami mats from humidity.

Coming from dry weather place, he miscalculated a little about the humidity of Japan. He designed the ventilation holes in the second floor, for wind and lights effect, originally had wire screens. Now glasses are installed to protect from humidity and rain. It seems that he did not expect much of rain in the rainy season in June, and typhoon in late summer.

Referece:

Wrightian Architectural archives Japan

http://www.wrightinjapan.org/eng_waaj/e_buildings/dsgn03yamamura_e.html

http://www.wrightinjapan.org/eng_waaj/e_buildings/dsgn00top_e.html

http://www.wrightinjapan.org/eng_waaj/e_waaj/wrightflash_e.html

Yodoko Guest House

http://www.yodoko.co.jp/geihinkan/tour_e/index_e.html

(Click on the arrow for the online building tour!)

http://www.yodoko.co.jp/geihinkan/himitu/himitu01/index_e.html

(Click on the bottom links for more secrets.)

Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Hotel%2C_Tokyo

Maya Revival Style, Wikipedia

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

花見　@ 近つ飛鳥風土記の丘

2017-04-19T11:27:00.001+09:00

初めての女性と、以前からの知り合いと３人で古墳で花見をしました。

一人都合で来れない人がいましたが、近所の商店街で作りたてのお弁当を当日の午前中に作ってもらい、（もちろん両親が家で食べる分も）
あったかいお弁当やお菓子や、他の人が持ってきてくれたお菓子や唐揚げを食べたり、いろいろしゃべったりして、楽しく過ごしました。

桜の花はほとんど散っていましたが、風が吹いて桜吹雪も見れて、人も少なく、いい感じでした。

Gassyo Zukuri House net book

2017-03-09T15:40:00.000+09:00

『Gassyo Zukuri Style』　artist tomo著

Gassyo Zukuri House

合掌造りの家について英語の論文

ume blossoms in my town 3.5.17

2017-03-05T14:31:00.000+09:00

I went to see Ume flowers at the Chicatsu Asuka Museum.

近つ飛鳥博物館に梅見に行きました。

Art therapy アートセラピー

able art group 障害者のアートの展示

Tomo's Photography

Legs and Arm photography 腕と足

銀杏BOYZの峯田和伸、3ヵ月連続シングルと武道館公演について語る

◆超速報!! 撮って出し!! 峯田和伸（銀杏BOYZ）登場！「南瓜とマヨネーズ」 大ヒット記念 トークショーイベント◆

William J. O'Brien | 2017 Summer Series

銀杏BOYZ - 光(PV)

More photos from Kyoto trip #2

Kyoto trip with my online classmate 京都 ８月２０日

高知佐川町と須崎 ８/12ー14

Past photo Arizona

洗濯機

Monterey Canning Company

Kochi Niyodo river rafting 越知町 ラフティング

越知町 ソフトラフティング

高知 日曜市

My new bike

Tea lecture お茶の入れ方

いの和紙 ino washi

Tea farm 茶畑 5.28.17

Kochi station 5/7/17

Tomato flower

今読んでみたい本

Frank Lloyd Wright フランク ロイド ライト

花見 @ 近つ飛鳥風土記の丘

Gassyo Zukuri House net book

ume blossoms in my town 3.5.17

◆超速報!! 撮って出し!! 峯田和伸（銀杏BOYZ）登場！「南瓜とマヨネーズ」大ヒット記念トークショーイベント◆

Kyoto trip with my online classmate 京都　８月２０日

高知佐川町と須崎　８/12ー14

Kochi Niyodo river rafting 越知町　ラフティング

越知町ソフトラフティング

高知日曜市

Frank Lloyd Wright　フランク　ロイド　ライト

花見　@ 近つ飛鳥風土記の丘