What
immediately comes to mind when you hear the word “castle”? Everyone has
different images of castles. I would guess that American’s imagine Western
style buildings like palaces, but Japanese castles were totally different.
Their form was very unique. Nowadays, the number of Japanese castles are about
200. Each castle has different history, stone fences and exterior buildings. In
this presentation, the speaker will focus on three famous Japanese castles:
Osaka Castle, Himeji Castle and Shuri Castle.
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...