MINOSUKE's VirtualTourist Home Page

Please enjoy more photos of various wisterias taken in Nara in my Nara travelogue Japanese Wisterias in Nara.

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what is new in my homepage:
Pusan Pages
Taipei Pages
two Osaka restaurant tips : Kushiyaki & Kushikatsu

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I live in the southern part of Osaka City.
Near my house there is Nagai Park. I often enjoy walking in the park.
Inside the park, there are athletic stadiums, a soccer stadium, a botanical garden, etc. 11th IAAF World Championship in Athletics is being held now (Aug. 25-Sep. 2, 2007), and some of the World Cup soccer games were played in 2002.

Now I keep a 16-year-old female cat, Mii-chan.
My VT name MINOSUKE is one of her nicknames.

Enjoy pictures of lovely animals. Oji Zoo in Kobe

I like growing flowers and vegetables in containers.
From winter to spring the very small front garden of my house is filled with pansies. In early summer I pick sweet mulberries and make them into jam. In summer I grow sweet basils and parsleys. In autumn the tiny berries of murasakisikibu (japanese beautyberry) turn purple as the temperature lowers day by day.
Please visit my album. Flowers, Berries, Herbs and a Cat.

In Japan, we expect tutelary of our local shrine. On New Year's Day we go to the shrine to pray for good luck, good health, protection and so on. When we build a house we ask for the shrine to purify the soil.
This is the float which passed my house on the day of the festival of the shrine.

at an izakaya in Kyobashi