What images do you have of Japanese women and war? Can you imagine women are related to war? Yae Niijima is one women had fought strongly in war. She lived irregular life in the last edo period that women usually hadn’t lived and learned to be brave from her older brother and two husbands. During Boshin war(1868-69), she fought with weapons and the regret of the thought of her brother. Everything is different to women for all of her life. Her older brother was really smart and after war, he imported new things such as religion and English. She was always with him and learned from him. And then, she got married two times and each husband influenced strongly to her life but both of them died before Yae. After her two husbands had passed, she became a nurse and worked for the other people, so she was praised from Japan. This presentation will show what irregular life was, how she was influenced and how she was brave. By understanding about how she lived, everyone will learn that some Japanese women were strong and brave.
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...