I was amazed to see other apprentices were all improved technically and musically. I felt definitely at home at playing music. Music is a good accompany for your life.

I only played four pieces of music

They have all shown a progress

Dancers were all entertaining

A soprano accompanied by two koto players and a Japanese flutist

Our leader. Fully engaged in the management and performance at the same time

Japanese drumming was so exiting

We were going to show our performance the next day. To me, it was my re-appearance to the public after two years…

rehearsing

卒業生のU君が書き置きしていることに気づいた。渡したいものもあったのに、会えなかった。今度来る時は必ず連絡してください。よろしくお願いします。

またきてね

I needed to visit a group home to fix a problem with our system. It is 15 km away from home and I wondered whether it was appropriate for me to go on bicycle. After some hesitation, I decided to go cycling. It was actually not so bad (far) as I had been afraid of as it took one hour to reach there. I dropped in a park to appreciate the beauty of wisteria, now flourishing.

I was heading for our institute after fixing the problem. To my joy, I spotted a couple of pheasant. I had never seen them in pair. I knew of a well-known piece of ceramics, made by an artist, which depicted a couple of pheasant. I had thought it was a matter of aesthetics, the reason why they had been made as a pair, but understood it was realism. I missed the chance to take the best shoot, but somehow was succeeded in taking them into a frame.

I cycled today for about 40 km, but am not so tired as I should have been. I set the gears often to the top-top position. The journey from the institute to home, ca. 13 km, required me for 40 minutes yesterday. I have been making a progress these days.

I took a break to take a picture of wisteria on my way to GH

a couple of pheasant I spotted

the female pheasant

the male feasant

He claims for his teritory

back home in the evening. A span of wisteria along the canal.

the season for planing rice

It was sunny day. I cycled to the institute as usual. I took a break in the midst of bridge, drinking a bottle of water to fresh me up. I felt the wind. The institute across the river looked a bit strange, but who cares? The wheats are growing rapidly these days. I feel happy imagining these are turned into beer.

looking at the institute from _this_ side

wheats waiting to be made into beer