"Kounai-en"

Recent several days, I have been suffering from a badly stomatitis（口内炎）. But, today I cannot recognize it, I am recovering from it.

At first, I felt something uncomfortable in my throat on September 1o. This bad condition continued by the weekend and I saw a doctor who lives near my house. He diagnosed my disease as a cold and prescribed a Chinese herbal medicine and a pill that eased the pain.

But, the pain did not decrease, and finally I found that the pain was caused from a stomatitis that came out under my tongue, not throat pain. By that time, I mistakenly thought that it was a throat pain.

After that, I bought a honey（蜂蜜） at a market and put it on my injured part. It helped cure my disease.

My parents taught me that a honey is useful to cure a stomatitis. Now, I have learned that a honey contains a substance to kill germs from Wikipedia.

If you have a stomatitis, I recommend you to try this way.

"lipstick on a pig"

Some days ago, I heard that Obama used an expression, "lipstick on a pig" to criticize MacCain and Palin. When I heard it, I looked for a similar expression in Japanese saying.

At first, "Youtou-kuniku"（羊頭狗肉）appeared in my mind. But, later, it did not look a good example, I thought.

If I find a similar Japanese expression to "lipstick on a pig", I will show it on this blog in the future.

"Ton-don" or "Buta-don"

Yesterday, I had a lunch at "Yoshino-ya"（吉野家） that serves mainly "Gyu-don"（牛丼）. I made an order to its clerk saying that "Ton-don to tamago gudasai"（豚丼と卵ください）. But, she said "Buta-don to tamago desune"（豚丼と卵ですね。） "Buta-don"! not "Ton-don".

Japanese language is very difficult. ”牛丼”is pronounced as "Gyu-don", not "Ushi-don". Why?. Occasionally, Japanese language has no rule.

act locally

I have learned "Chou-jin Neiger"（超神ネイガー） by reading today's Asahi newspaper. I felt that this hero character was very interesting.

As you know, there are a lot of hello characters broadcasted by TV program in Japan, but this character mainly acts in Akita prefecture and does not appear in any TV program across the nation. Because, his mission is to save mountains, sea in Akita and Akita itself. And his sayings and weapons links deeply to many products in Akita. Of course, he speaks Akita dialect.

Our area where I live is far from Akita, but I want go to Akita to meet "Chou-jin Neiger" in the future.

"Jibun" means you!?

Generally, "Jibun"（自分） means myself in Japanese. But, it locally is used in very different meanings.

Some days ago, I watched a TV commercial on a canned coffee stared by "Fukuyama Masaharu"（福山雅治）who is a very popular actor and singer. In this commercial program, a young man says that "「自分は不器用ですね」" to him. (However, I am not sure what he said, but, it sounds like that to me. )

Surprisingly, in Kansai（関西） area (Kyouto, Osaka, Koube), "Jibun" means occasionally "you". It is very confused thing, but is fact. And, it is very curious to people in other area.

"Ureshino-onsen"

We left for "Ureshino-onsen" at about eleven o'clock on August 24. We used the express high way and had a short rest at "Kiyama"（基山） service area for having a lunch.

We visited the "Yutoku-Inari-jinjya"（祐徳稲荷神社） before we arrived at this day's accommodation. It is locally, a famous place and one of three big "Inari"s （三大稲荷）. But there were less visitors than we expected.

The accommodation that we stayed locates in the middle of mountain area. We could feel good natural circumstance. After using a "Roten-buro"（露天風呂） that is place outside, we had a good dinner and used other bath again, and went to bed. (Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of dinner's dishes.)

Next day's morning, I wake up earlier and rode my bike around there for about an hour. I found a nice view of water-fall in my way. (Later, I took my family to this place to see it.)

The breakfast was buffet style so called "baikingu"（バイキング） in Japanese. So, I ate too much than normal.

We left the hotel at about twelve o'clock. And we ate "Gyouza"（餃子） as lunch in the city of "Takeo"（武雄） before we returned home.

Uresino-onsen

An overnight trip

On this Sunday and Monday, my family will make a overnight trip for enjoying an "onsen"（温泉）. Our destination is "Ureshino-onsen"（嬉野温泉） in Saga prefecture. If I find interesting things in this trip, I will show you those photos.

Ponyo on the cliff

"Ponyo on the cliff"（崖の上のポニョ） is now showing in Japan. It is directed by a very famous director, Miyazaki Hayao（宮崎　駿）. I had been interested in it. If I would hear a good evaluation about it from someone who saw it, I would plan to see it.

My wife and daughter went to see the movie on August 6. But, unfortunately, it betrayed my wife's expectation. I decided not to go to a movie theater for it. (But, I will see it on a television program in a few years.)

My wife says that the movie has left uncomfortable, unstable feeling in her mind.

But, I like this song very much. It has a lot of imitative words.

"Ogu-Shio"

"Ogu-Shio"（オグシオ） is the nick name of the Japanese women's badminton doubles team. Their families names are "Ogura Kumiko"（小椋　久美子） and "Shiota Reiko"（潮田　玲子）. They are very popular top athletes because of their good looks.

Sunday's evening, I watched their game on the Olympic game television program. They defeated the Denmark team, but their victory did not seem complete. During the game, I felt Ogura's waist had something strange. A little bit later, I found out that she wore a corset on her waist under her uniform because of her waist pain. And later I knew that she had this problem since this July.

Many top athletes have similar problems and they think they have to manage to do deal with this problem. But, I have had a doubt about it. Because they have a plenty of time after they retire from their athlete life. If they have something bad in their body, they have to deal with this problem all of their rest of life.

Almost all people have recognized the worth of sports. But, all top athletes have these problem and we should more consider about them, I think.

"Hibakukoku"

Today, Nagasaki atomic Bomb memorial ceremony was held in the city. But, many people in Japan are more interested in the Olympic game in Beijing than it, I feel. Japan is a very peaceful country, I think.

In fact, Japan had invaded other Asian countries in the 1930-40, and still now Japan has been criticized on this issue. But, in the other side, Japan is the only "被爆国"(hibakukoku) that means a country is attacked by using an atomic bomb. I think that Japan should more appeal this position in the international stage.