今週末松戸秋葉神社まつりに参加しました。 お神輿を持ちながら、松戸三丁目東を回りました。 踊りながら、歌いながら進むのは、楽しかった！ 日本のまつりが好きです。 Past weekend I became a full participant of the local festival and carried Omikosi along with everyone for the first time. I felt united with everyone around me, it made me happy. On the photo, our team from Iwase Neighbourhood, who came to help to carry Omikosi in the area of the festival Higashi-san-cho-me. Festival is a chance to meet and chat. We change clothes in the tatami room. Everyone is wearing the festival special clothes: wide jackets with the name of the city and shrine on the front and big signs “祭” on the back. + Long belt, a little pouch, and head towel. Traditional shoes with “2fingers” also desirable.  Festival backstage - women are cooking the food and chatting in the inner room, where the altar for the Shinto God is made with the sacrificial offerings: fruits, vegetables, sake, and rice cakes. The round mirror in the center represents God.

I'd like to introduce our new logo designed by Hiroyuki Shirakawa, a designer and a fellow sketcher. This was selected among 5 variation by voting done in the Facebook Urban Sketchers Japan group. After having minor modification of Design A, the logo look so shiny and so well fit what we want to see as Japan image. Special thanks to Hiroyuki Shirakawa!

日本アーバンスケッチの皆さん、２０１８年アジアリンクスケッチウォーク報告させていただきます。 台湾の台中はきれいな街です。水が溢れている川、緑、自然の豊かのイメージしました。 また、新しい友だちと会いまして、良かった(写真、↓)。生態学者の私に、嬉しいことで、馬のスケッチをできました。３つ目の日にシェーアトークをさせていただき、町並みの古い建築の守りについて話しました。そこで、スケッチは研究や、政策に使うことについて調べて、日本の学者 西山夘三 を紹介しました。 来年のアジアリンクスケッチウォークはベトナム、ハノイで行う予定です。皆さんと一緒に行った方がいいでしょう！ どうぞうよろしくお願いします。 Last Saturday I've returned from my second Asia-Link Sketchwalk, which this time was held in Taiwan, Taichung city. From my impression, Taichung city was bigger and more spread out then Kuching, where Asia-Link was held last year. So, it took more time to walk around.  Sketch walks were organized nicely, except the last day when we go to the flora expo area. That location was not prepared to be seen by sketchers and it seems sketchers felt a little wasted. For me, it was totally compensated by the last location in the expo, the horse racing pavilion, where we met real horses.  Other days it was quite enjoyable to walk around the city, full of green chan