Do you like reading books? Also when you were child, did you enjoy stories? In Japan there are a bunch of folktales for children. Almost all Japanese children know the stories, because they read books. Also, some famous folktales are made into an animation and they are aired on the TV programs. Japanese folktales show the important foundations of Japanese values and traditions in an interesting way. Also they teach us a lot of meaning lessons. In this presentation, the presenter will introduce some Japanese folktales and what they show and also what we can learn from them. By understanding Japanese folktales, people will know some Japanese values and traditions.
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...