Mikura got up and saw a warlord on a horse on the opposite shore. The moment he stopped sweeping to look at the face of the warlord with sorrow, the warlord blew off blood from his forehead and dropped out of the horse. The warriors covered up and carried Mikura, who had lost her minds […]

  A pair of back-scratcher called Magonote, grandson’s hands in Japanese, stored at the Awashima Shrine. The priest, Saiki Tokuzaemon Yoshitada who saw the figure of Magonote holding the lightning did not leave any details in the diary. The latter priests who inherited the Magonote learned that Tachibana Masayuki, who left it, was Yui kakibenosuke […]

About 25,000 dolls are dedicated to Awashima Shrine (Kada Awashima, Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture), and it is called the Doll’s Palace. It is not well known that a pair of Magonote, back-scratcher meaning grandchildren’s hands in Japanese, are put on among the dolls of the Awashima Shrine. The mysterious power of this Magonote has been […]

    Good afternoon. I’m Dr. Rodrichinko, loving Japan and Japanese people. Tips of English communication is composed of 4 factors as 1) words and phrases, 2) voice and tone, 3) pronunciation, 4) context . Here I’m focusing on “I don’t think it’s is better than I think it’s not .” as 1). Japanese people […]

Hi, this is Dr. Rodrichinko loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japanese people usually and fundamentally think that all people must understand with each other if they talk together bearing “sei-i” in Japanese. This “sei-i” is translated to “sincerity”, but I am not quite sure that it is appropriate. I think that “sei-i” in […]

Good evening, I’m Dr. Rodrichinko, loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japan has individual culture by themselves, in stead, Japan likes to incorporate a variety of things. Is is said that many cultures were brought from other countries into Japan. It is very excellent point that Japanese people take other culture not in raw […]

Good afternoon, I’m Dr. Rodrichinko. It’s no doubt that I love Japan and Japanese people. Japanese people are always taking care of their surrounding. This is close to something like gene based on their history as agricultural people. In the agricultural society, every people have had been taking no choice but to be cooperative and […]

Good evening, this is Dr. Rodrichinko loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japanese people have excellent gene supporting superior literacy of language because they easily control such complicated language as Japanese, in stead, many of Japanese people are not good at speaking English even after long time English education through schools. I have recommended […]

Good afternoon, this is Dr. Rodrichinko loving Japan and Japanese people so much. It has been thought that Japanese was a most complicated language in the world. Its grammar is different from the others, subject is there or is not there in a normal sentence, impossible to watch out border line between words in writing, […]

Hello, this is Dr. Rodrichinko loving Japan and Japanese culture. I know that Japanese people are very square and kind for others. That is one of the points I love on Japanese people. And they are square in speaking English, too. They usually use quite simple expressions of past tense and present tense. Those simple […]

Hi, This is Dr. Rodrichinko writing with love for Japan and Japanese people. I know that Japanese people are quite earnest people. In the beginning of their learning English, they have gotten that A is B can be the most basic sentence. Many of Japanese people speak in such a way of A is B […]

Hello, This is Dr. Rodrichinko writing with love for Japan and Japanese people. Today I am dropping in at “sorry story” of Japanese people. Japanese people are absolutely one of the most courteous people. They usually think not to disturb others. Such their behavior are almost unconscious because their habit has been based on something […]

Good evening. This is Dr. Rodrichinko writing, loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japanese people have something like gene that says that they have to harmonize with its surroundings. So Japanese people firstly say “yes” for everything.In additon, they say “sorry” at every piece of opportunity. This “yes” means that they are definitely comrade […]

This is Dr. Rodrichinko, loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japanese language is one of the very rare language having specific expression for polite situation. There are many polite words and expressions in Japanese. Most of Japanese people use artfully both of casual and polite words and expressions on a daily basis. When Japanese […]

This is Dr. Rodrichinko writing, loving Japan and Japanese people so much. Japanese people generally hate to disturb ohters. In Japanese, meiwaku wo kakenai. So that many of Japanese people talk with a minimum voice. And their phonation for Japanese make their voice feeble. English speaking with this kind of phonation will bring a feeble […]

I’m called Dr. Rodrichinko, loving Japan so much. I personally love many Japanese behaviors, but sometimes it can be disadvantage in other culture than Japanese ones. Then I am trying to put here some advice to make Japanese people plain in public. I hope that my small advice would be useful for usual conversation in […]

Once drinking the dreadfully bitter water from the counter flowing waterfall, the person could have another face. The face appears same as before, but everybody comes to like the face at a glance. The new face are not always beautiful, handsome, or artistic. Just one problem with such fabulous water involves that persons of the […]

We can find extremely beautiful waterfall named God Fall at Okayama prefecture in Japan. Its water flows from bottom to top at a timing of sunrise. The water of usual flow is just clean water, and it of counter flowing can have specific feature. Many politicians of Japanese congress have been coming to this waterfall […]

Large dog made of rock has had been believed as a guard of the old temple. Some people mentioned that this dog had been absent while somebody had talked to Semi. It has been believed that Semi was another view of the rock guard dog from such story. This rock dog has been shot by […]

There is a quite old temple at Okayama prefecture in Japan , it is heard to be 2520 years old. Many people have seen a certain old woman walking in this temple many many years ago. Nobody knows its beginning. Most of such people had talked to the old woman about their sad experiences, and […]

Nobody collect rubies from these cherry blossoms because every piece of cherry blossoms here will suddenly scatter if they lose their ruby. All village people around this tree eager to keep cherry blossom beautiful as long as possible. In addition, they have another reason no to be greedy. I has been legend that village around […]

It is a little delayed season for cherry blossom at some town in Okayama prefecture in Japan. We can find a beautiful cherry tree with full of cherry blossom by Asahi river. Pistils of those cherry blossom change into rubies during very short timing of sunrise. These rubies can be kept as rubies when those […]

Sake, Japanese liquor, has usually been colorless or slightly white, but Sachisuke’s sake had been violet. Sachisuke had no idea about its violet tone. Other people in his village had thought that it was not genuine fermentation but rotten things. Sachisuke had always been pouring his all spirit in his brew. While he had concentrated […]

Why Sachisuke could not escape from death? His most important thing was not life but concentration on making sake. He usually had said that he could have his reason for living on making sake from rice. When he was making sake, he could detect something like force from fermenting rice going sake eventually. His sake […]

A ghost called Sakaoni means a fairy who is good at making sake. The fairy did not claim to be Sakaoni. It is a name that has been used for some time among those who knew this fairy. There are many reports of the existence of Sakaoni in Japan. For example, the Japanese Encyclopedic Lexicon […]

Japan has a number of rivers that offer bizarre phenomena that can not be explained by science. Asahigawa is one of the five of them called Japan’s Five Great Sake River. Asahigawa originates near the Hiruzen plateau in Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture, and travels the prefecture almost in the central part toward south, pouring it […]

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