Jake got NaHoku Awards!!

My favorite ukulele artist Jake shimabukuro got the Favorite Entertainer of Na Hoku Award!!
It was so disapointed that Jake miss the Rock of the Year of Na Hoku Award, but Jake got Na Hoku Awards every 7years since he was in the band named "Colon".

The Festival Five produced by Tony Tauvela

My family and I went to see the Hawaiian Show "Festibal Five" on May 26th.
Mr Kimo who had Hawaiian concert in my cafe invited us.
The cast of this show was Makaha Sons; traditional Hawaiian band,
Mr. Chinky Mahoe; Kumu hula, his hula team and Raiatea Helm; traditional Hawaiian singer with playing Ukulele.
That was amazing and beautiful!!
We were so touched.
Mr. Chinky Mahoe and his hula team is the winner of the Merry Monarc hula contest this year.
Raiatea Helm is the winner of Na Hoku Awards called Hawaiian Grammy last year.

She has very beautiful singing voice and she also play ukulele very well!!

Bruce Shimabukuro with B.S.Band

Today, I attended a B.S.Band's Ukulele concert.
B.S.Band's menber is Bruce Shimabukuro(Jake's youger brother), Jody Kamisato and Gary Akiona.

After the concert, I had a party with menbers and fans.
We had a lot of fun.
I could make few friends.

I almost fall in love with Jody!! So, I was very HAPPY to see him.
He has very beautiful eyes, he is so sweet and his singing voice heals me.
I LOVE Jody!!

my favorite song

Recently, I often remenber the song that my friend wrote.
He used be with the aim of becoming a song writer.
The title of this song is "Egao" mean smile.
I orderd him this song as a token of a present on my friend's wedding.
This song is so sweet and beautilful. I love this song.
I sang this on my friend's wedding party.

"Egao" is written in Japanese.

But the meaning is like this;

"Egao; smile" written by Takumy

I hope you always smile so I will always smile.
Our love we swear by God that will never change.
I hope you will be just as you are forever.
Thank you for many wonderful smiles now and forever.
The smiles will be our pride and joy.
Thank you so much.

Ikebana Art ~Kakitsubata~

I'll show you the onother type of arrangement of Kakitusubata.
There are three groups of Kakitsubata arrangements.
This arrangement represents scenery of the shore where Kakitsubata is grown.
The middle one is main called "Tatesugata".
The right one is semi-main called "Yokosugata".
And the left one represent young group called "Mekabu".

The Mishou Style Ikebana represents real scenery of the plants.

"Neri Kuyou" ;a memorial service

It was perform the "Neri Kuyou" at Taima temple in Katsuragi, Nara on May 14th.
The performance is a play of a legend that Chuujou princess had a peaceful death as she was living.
You can see the photo of this performance on this website; http://homepage2.nifty.com/m-kasama/taima/neri.htm.

Japanese horror movie

I saw the horror movie "The Juon" maked in Hollywood.
"The Juon" is based on Japanese horror muvie "Juon".
"The Ring" is also based on Japanese Horror movie.

Japanese Horror has own way to strike terror into the audience's heart.
It express a curse, a deep‐seatedand a mentality terror and it has not grotesque terror like zombie moovie.

Samidare ~the rain in May~

We call the light rain in May "Samidare".
We had some rainy days in this week.
Today is also rainy day.
I hate Samidare because it make growth of slugs.

Hula Lesson

Today I had a hula lesson.
I teach 4 students from today.
2 people of them are eighties and the other 2 are fifties.
Students spend the time for choosing Paw skirt a half of lesson.
Paw skirt is the costume for Hula.
They looked having a lot of fun.

Sado lesson!

Today I had a Sado lesson.

We;among the people who enjoy Sado has two seasons in a year.

The Furo season and the Ro season.

Furo season is from May to Octorber, Ro season is from Novenber to April.

Today is the first day for Furo season in this year.

The picture is "Tokonoma" today.

The Kakejiku says "Seifuu" that means "a breath of fresh air".

Ikebana Art ~Kakitsubata~

"Kakitsubata" is one of popular material for "Mishouryuu" Ikebana.
The flower materials that has long leafs is representative arrangement in "Mishouryuu".
And there are many flower materials that has long leafs in April and May.
Shoubu, Ichihatsu, Kakitsubata and so on.
Especialy Kakitsubata is very special and popular, and there is a book for how to arrange by Kakitsubasta.
I'll introduce the other arrange by Kakitsubata in few days.

a celemomy of 49days

We had a celemony of 49days from the day of my granma dead.
My aunt's family came to our home, and they and my family recited a sutra with a Buddhist priest.

A chain of the celemony of my granma's dead is over.
Next celemony is the first anniversary of granma's death.

Children's Day!!

In Japan, May 5th is the Children's day.
It's a national holiday for celebration of boy's growing up.
This celebration stareted in the Edo era.
In the Edo era, samurai decorated a room with a doll of Kintaro, an armor, a Japanese drum and so on, because he hoped that his son grow strong and powerful.
In the other side, the common people raised "Koinobori" on a roof of their house.
"Koinobori" is a family of carps that are made from fabric.
You can get more information of "Koinobori"in this website.
http://www.shikoku.ne.jp/miike/index-e.html
And we eat "Kashiwa-mochi" on this day.

"Fuji" flower

In May, it's the season of "Fuji" flower.
In Nara, the Fuji called "Sunazuri-no-Fuji" in Kasuga-taisha shrine is most famous.
You can see the photos in this website.
http://narayamatojinokoto.typepad.jp/photos/kasugafuji/index.html

Japanese sweets in May from Kyoto

Jake is BEST!!

The Hawaiian festival held at Odaiba Venus Fort in Tokyo.
And the Hawaiian concert started at 1:30pm and 4:30pm.
Jake and the other performers appeared on the both stages.
The shows were same program.
But Jake played different songs on those stages.

I went this event with my friend whom I met at Maui in this Janualy.
She is also Jake's fanclub menber.

After the show I talked about Jake with her.
We had a lot of fun, and we had very HAPPY times today.