On Singapore's second day, I participated in the afternoon tea experience at the Raffles Hotel, which is ranked high in Singapore. This was a life culture brought to the colonial Singapore by the British upper class during the British rule…

Anyway the sightseeing spot in Singapore was Orchard Road, and me and a friend went out for a walk. Certainly the wide avenue is clean and comfortable walking. However, it was too artificial and inconceivable that I could not find a single…

When I got up to Singapore's Changi Airport, I received a strong impression on the compact and functional premises of vivid colors. Just by walking, the mind bounces. After all, it was a lot different from Narita Airport which I was leavin…

There is Beacon Hill, an affluent residential area at a good distance from the hotel where my and friends stayed. We liked the calm atmosphere that makes us feel the history of Beacon Hill, and we went and crossed the tree-lined street of …

Me and my friends passed regularly to Quincy Market, which is close to my hotel. Especially, I did not have something I wanted to buy, but I was pleasant just watching shops dealing with various items, and bustling like a festival bounced …

The schedule for me and my friends on the night of the 2 nd stay in Boston was to go to the jazz concert held from 19 o'clock in the basement hall of the church. And we decided to spend the dinner before the concert in the luxurious atmosp…

I and my friend who did not receive the baggage at the airport decided to take a stroll downtown to buy a pair of underwear etc after we arrived at the hotel. In the process we encountered, it was a very prosperous restaurant while setting…

In our spring 1981 Golden Week 's American trip passed through Nashville, New Orleans and finally Boston. And when we arrived at Logan Airport, we faced the disaster of lost baggage. No matter how much we wait, some passenger baggage inclu…

The preservation hall known for an admission fee of $ 1 was located in the center of the French Quarter and was a live house exclusively for Dixieland Jazz. Me and my friends managed to reserve seats somehow in a long line and overlooking …

In 1981 GW, I and my friend visited New Orleans to experience "Jazz Festival" where jazz fans from all over the world gather. When we were healing the tiredness of a long trip on the second floor of a Spanish hotel in the French Quarter, c…

The main purpose of staying in Nashville this time was to listen to the tenor saxophonist's boots · Randolph live playing active here. At that time I was listening to mood music flowing from the FM radio at midnight, especially the fans of…

At Nashville Airport the banner of "welcome to music city" welcomed our arrival guests. However, in my head I was caught by healing tiredness and thirst in long trips, and as soon as I left my luggage at my accommodation destination, we he…

As of the end of April 1981, I was stunned at the entrance examination at Atlanta International Airport. Even if I repeat "immigration purpose" as "sight seeing", the examiner sees me with suspicious eyes while looking at the itinerary and…

次に式子内親王の『正治初度百首』詠歌から『新古今和歌集』に入集した次の２首を例に、内親王と当時の新風歌人達が歌の上でどのように影響し合っていたかを探ってみたい。１．式子内親王 新古今和歌集 春下 １４９ 百首歌中に 花は散り その色となくながむ…

A music magazine "Weekly FM Fan" that I subscribed to at the time featured New Orleans Jazz Festival with colorful photographs, attracting jazz fans all over the world from the end of April to the beginning of May every year .I was fascina…

Me and my friends participated in one day sightseeing in Tijuana sponsored by a local tourism company while staying in Los Angeles.Tijuana is the largest city in Baja California located along the border with the United States, the northern…

The flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco that I had reserved was striked and it became useless and accepted the proposal that the female staff of the travel agency "can ride the first class of other airlines if added to reserved ticket…

建久９年（１１９８）正月、４歳の為仁親王（土御門天皇）に譲位した１９歳の後鳥羽天皇は上皇として専制政治に乗り出す。その一方で正治元年（１２００）に応制百首（※１）とも言うべき『正治初度百首』を企画して惟明親王・守覚法親王・式子内親王・左大臣…

Me and my friend visited San Francisco and Los Angeles again in 1979 but at that time I used a cheap air ticket from Haneda to Los Angeles of China Airlines so we arrived in Los Angeles first and headed for San Francisco the next day Becam…

When we got on the return ferry and tried to sit in the vacant seat, the man who met at the ferry going to talk to us again.And the man turned his own high quality coat over and covered the seat and encouraged us to sit there like a mediev…

Me and my friend went to the Sausalito on the other side across the Golden Gate Strait on a ferry from the dock of San Francisco Downtown.In those days in Japan, although Sausalito was not known much, it was attracted to the sentence of gu…

My friend and I went to Castro street by bus with a fashion.At exactly the sunset, on a street wrapped in soft light and shadows, many couples walked with gentle arms around each other's waist, and at a stylish cafe they were filled with c…

I and my friend went to the University of California at Berkeley because I wanted to taste the atmosphere of the movie "Strawberry White Paper" that was the source of the song "Circle Game" that I loved.The stage of the movie "Strawberry W…

寂連の入滅した日は明確ではないが、彼が出詠した最後の歌合は、後鳥羽院が建仁２年（１２０２）５月２６日に主催した『仙洞影供歌合』とされる。 （http://d.hatena.ne.jp/K-sako/20180715）そしてその１ヶ月後の６月２９日の藤原定家の『明月記』では、〔…

Accommodation in San Francisco I chose "Hotel · California" same as the title of my favorite Eagles song from the guide book.Because this hotel does not have a star, the price is cheap, it is convenient place of transportation in downtown,…

The entry into Hawaii at the end of our US West Coast pack tour, which began at the end of 1977, changed year and was in 1978.Although staying in Hawaii was 2 nights, we were able to heal the stress of foreign travels, such as a huge hula …

Disneyland was included in the option of pack travel, but we wanted to pleasure at our own pace, so we decided to go by greyhound bus.The inside of the downtown bus stop is dusty with garbage and abandoned plastic bags, and in Los Angeles …

『仙洞影供歌合』は、建仁２年（１２０２）５月２６日に後鳥羽院が主催した歌合で、これまで知られたところでは寂連最後の歌合とされている。そしてこの２ヶ月後の７月に寂連は入滅した。ところで「影供歌合」とは、先日足を運んだ出光美術館での『人麿影供…

My first overseas trip was a pack tour of "West Coast of the USA and Hawaii" that I participated with my friends using the year-end and New year vacation in 1977.This triggered that the then West Coast music boom, and the yen / dollar exch…

On a hot day just brief rainy season has ended, I accepted my friend's request for lunch together in Ginza, followed a sunglasses selection at a department store during a bargain sale.And when I stepped into the target sales area, I was su…