The purpose of this presentation is to understand Japanese religious culture and to know about the spiritual island of “Miyajima”. Miyajima plays an important role by showing Japanese religious history. Temples and shrines are built in the same area, so this island symbolizes the fusion of Shintoism and Buddhism. Moreover, Miyajima has been regarded as a sacred island by people since ancient times. In 1996, Miyajima was chosen as a World Cultural Heritage site. Therefore, Miyajima is a very famous tourist spot. Each year, over 3,500,000 people visit Miyajima. After you have listened to this presentation, you’ll be interested in Japanese religious culture and you surely will want to visit Miyajima.
Last week, we took a trip to the Southwest for 7 days. This trip was an absolutely wonderful memory. I had never been to these areas so I was stimulated by every things, for example, cactus, adobe style buildings, Native American culture and amazing dessert views. It is one of the most interesting trips I ever took, because I experienced some rare things like visiting Grand Canyon, visiting high school and so on. On this trip I could understand about Indian culture from a folk art museum. I would like to introduce some my best memories on this Southwest trip. My first best memory is Georgia O’Keef museum. Actually, before this trip, I was not familiar with her and didn’t know about any of her artworks, but I was looking forward to visiting here because I like art museums. Her artworks were very unique, abstract and absolutely fabulous, and these were very fresh to me. I especially liked bone’s paintings which one of the most famous her artwork, because the color contrast is very c...