Blog essay2

I write about Buskers in Gabriel's Visual Anthropology.
I am interested in this posting. I also see the street musicians sometimes in Tennoji. I always do not stop to see them, but when there are many audiences in front of them, I am tempted to see them. I think everyone has same idea as me. Some of the street musicians have their friends not only to prepare their live, but also to watch their live. Thanks to them, people passing in front of the street musician think that the musician is popular. Theses people pretend to be audiences and tempt the people are called "sakura".
This posting is very interesting for me, because it tells me about the street musicians of foreign country and about the idea of foreign people watching them. It says Japan provides people with the freedom of expressing their arts or something. Even though I am Japanese, I have not ever thought about it before. It is very interesting idea for me.

short legs

It is said that Japanese have shorter legs than Western comparatively. Two main reasons of it are in Japanese traditional culture. First, Japanese did no sit on the chair in the far past. They sat on the floor called "Tatami" with the way of sitting called "agura" or "seiza". By sitting like these ways from childhood, the growth of their leg's bones were prevented. Second, Japanese mainly are grain and vegetable, and did not eat meat much. Grain and vegetable are more difficult to digest than meat. Therefore, the intestine of Japanese became longer than that of Western. However, western life-style is introduced in Japan recently. We usually sit on the chair and eat meat. There are many young people have long legs now.

I went to Wakayama prefecture and took some pictures. I went to "Kouyasan". There is a mountain track in it. It is said that this track was made by Japanese priest "Kukai", and it played an important part in developing his religion. This track begins from "Jison in"(the lower photo) to "Daimon". Its length is about 20km, and its altitude is about 1000m. There is two gate(the upper photo) in the middle of the track. Even though I wanted to go "Daimon", I gave up there.

I went to Wakayama prefecture and took same pictures.These photos are the shrine in wakayama.This is called "Niutsuhime shrine" .This shrine was registered on UNFSCO's World Heritage list.On this shrine, 11 events are held every year. In this season, two festivals are held, "Reisai" and "Niinamesai". "Reisai" is held on October 16th. This is a solemn autumn festival in this shrine. "Niinamesai" is held on November 23rd. In this festival, people appreciate the harvest of rice that is harvested in the year.