Chisha

I read Yoriko Kobayashi 'Vermeer' (kadokawashoten.)

I read repeatedly the comments of 'Woman reading a letter', 'A lady writing a letter' and 'Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid.' They are now exhibited at Kyoto City Museum where I am going to see.

Chisa is planted.

Wakegi

I read Philip Steadman 'Vermeer's Camera' (Translated by Kotaro Suzuki, Shinyosha.)

Steadman revealed that Vermeer drew his paintings by the method of camera obsucura.

He showed us the estimated way of amera obsucura about several Vermeer's works.

Wakegi's sprouts come up.

Broccoli

I read Nagata Keisuke 'Genfuku' (Tohoshoten.)

Genfuku is a great thinker, enlightenment translator and educationist in the end of Qing dynasty of China.

It is his biography.

He is compared with Yukichi Fukuzawa of Japan.

The broccoli is planted.

Bitaminna

I read Satoko Akio 'Whashingon Heights' (Shinchobunko.)

I was impressed the ceremony of the Instrument of Surrender on the Missouri.

Bitaminna sprouts come up.

Mizuna

I read Douglas Adams and Mark Carwadine 'Last Chance To See' (Translated by Kazumi Yasuhara , Mimizushobo.)

The journey to seek endangered species and describe their modes of life.

The spout of mizuna comes up.

Akakabu

I read Minoru Tanba 'Waga Gaiko Jinsei' (Chuokoronshinsha.)

He says about 'three ifs' about Russian-held Japanese northern island.

They are 'if Prime Minister Hasimoto kept his position one more year', 'if President Yeltsin were safe from illness' and 'if there was not financial met down in Russia at 1998'

He thinks the territorial dispute would be resolved under those conditions 80% of the time.

The sprout of akakabu appears.

Celery

I read Domibuqe Loreau 'L'art de la simpkicite' (Gentosha.)

She says,"Be trust traditional items with good quality used for many years."

It means 'Don't have so much junk.'

The celery is planted.