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…