Week 1 finished~

Pretty surprised the first week is almost over!! It's definitely going a little to fast for my liking haha.

First off, the Nezu Museum was beautiful. Unfortunately we couldn't take any pictures inside, but I took plenty of the garden that was there~ The galleries were on the smaller side, which was pretty nice. We were encouraged to take notes/draw while there, so I actually took a bunch of random notes on the techiques of maki-e, which is applying gold powder on laquer. I also doodled some objects from a gallery focused on tea ceremony utensils.

   

The last couple days I wandered around various places like Akihabara and Shinjuku after classes haha...

Then on Saturday, we went as a group to do shodo (書道), calligraphy. Last time I did this, I wrote 平和 (heiwa; peace). I chose to write 希望 (kibou; hope) this time around.

Sunday, I spent time around both Kanda Myojin and Yushima Tenmangu, especially the latter. They were having their Grand Festival, so I got to eat some nice okonomiyaki and kakigori and watch numbers of mikoshi (portable shrines) on the streets and at the shrine. I also saw this cute old dog called Ojii-san (old man/grandpa(?))...

 

                                      

I also got great luck (大吉; daikichi) from an omikuji (fortune) at Kanda Myojin~ I've tended to have pretty good luck each time I do omikuji haha...