Koinobori (Jap. 鯉 の ぼ り 🎏) - those same fish on sticks, a mysterious emoji for those who are not familiar with Japan. I like the animalistic character of the cultural symbols here, and it is inspiring. Biophilia? Something in this is very attractive to me, a biologist.  Carps swim among the clouds. We have many visitors in the neighborhood park. 住んでいる松戸市、岩瀬、自治会館前に鯉を飾りました。コロナですけど、公園にお客さんが多く来てます。鯉のぼりは人気です。 毎日たくさん親が来て、小さな子を連れていて、写真を撮ったり、遊んだりします。スケッチでドキュメンテーションしました。 I enjoy these seasonal traditional decorations. Unfortunately, nowadays people do not have much space in their garden to place the decorations as big as those. So as a manager of community area, I think it is good to have at least one gorgeous decoration for everyone around to enjoy the celebration. 

It’s already been eight weeks since we started a weekly online sketch challenge to make up for our monthly meet-ups, which we can’t do now. If you don’t know about it, check out our Facebook and Instagram . We announce a drawing prompt every week. Please join in by sketching following the week’s prompt and sharing your drawing online. USk Japanの Facebook と Instagram でウィークリー・スケッチ・チャレンジを始めてから、あっという間に8週間が経過しました。ご存知ない方はFB・IGをチェックしてみてください。毎週お題を出すので、それに沿ったスケッチをして、ソーシャルメディアでシェアするだけの簡単なチャレンジです。 In January last year, we started monthly sketch meet-ups. Through the meet-ups, the group got a lot of new members and grew big. We are good friends and inspire each other. As an admin, I don’t want the members to lose this connection just because of COVID-19. Instead, I want to encourage them to keep drawing, both inspiring and inspired, and stay connected to this community. That’s why I suggested doing an online challenge. Other USk groups are also doing similar things to keep them together and