New house

This morning I visited a newly-built house.

It is a Western -style building of two-storied one for two-households.
The design of inside is a tasteful one using lot's of woods.
Every room is functional and very nice.
There is a system kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a walk-in-closet on each floor.
But tatami-room is only one.

Recently old-Japanese-style houses which have many tatami-rooms are getting fewer.
Most of them have some wood-floored private rooms and a family room and so on.
The design of the houses are changing little by little in Japan.


I saw this flower(ha-na-ki-ri-n) there.

A day trip

Yesterday I went to 'Shi-zu-ta-ni ga-kko-u' with my friends by train.

It was established as the center of public education by Mitsumasa Ikeda, the Lord of Bizen Province in 1670.
They put 'Bi-ze-n-ya-ki' tiles;(Pottery made in Bizen Province) on the roof of Lecture Hall.

The red and yellow leaves there were also wonderful!
Two tall very old 'Ka-i-no-ki' are especially famous for the beauty of the color of red and yellow in fall.





Ko-u-do-u


ko-u-mo-n


ka-i-no-ki(left)


ka-i-no-ki(right) and Confucius's Mausoleum


To the Confucius's Mausoleum