Do you know about Japanese animal gods? Japanese animal gods are messengers of the Japanese gods. Animal gods originated in the Ancient Orient and through China to Japan. Why are they important to Japanese culture? In Shintoism, Japanese gods do not show their appearance in front of humans. Because of this, animal gods tell us the message instead of Japanese gods because they are believed to have close relationship with the gods. At first, the animal gods were placed at the Imperial Court in Heian period, around 800 A.D. After that, they began to protect Japanese shrines. Today, they are still placed at Japanese Shrines. There are many kinds of animal gods in Japan. This presentation will explain their history and about two fascinating animal gods.
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...