In Venice, "La biennale di venezia" (International cinema festival in Venice) is being held. From Japan, The Japanese monster movie "Yokai Daisenso" (Yokai war) was entered. Like I wrote before, the Yokai are a kind of creature like those found in Japanese folklore. Many of those stories tend to be comical. As far as I saw in the trailer, the movie seems to be comical too. Do you like Chiaki Kuriyama of Kill Bill?, The white haired one is her. Well if you have a night with really really really nothing to do, you might check it out with a bag of snacks. Anyway, the main actor is the 11 year old Ryunosuke Kamiki. One of today's entertainment news sites said that Ryounosuke appeared on the red carpet in Venice and was asked to "hold a pose". He then made "Taiku Zuwari" (this pose) and everybody said "Cute!!" That's it.
Taiku zuwari means gymnastic exercise lesson sitting. Yes, students sit this way in the gym. But I don't think that this is special, maybe in your country children do the same. However I will admit that the position is cute. Hmm this position seems like you're listening to someone's direction? Waiting for something? A little vulnerable? Adults hardly site this way in public, but when they do it in a park, they look cute. Or at least relaxed actually. My co-worker read that news and she said "cute, but he is 11 years old. He knew it, he did it on purpose, he knows the point." Yeah, I agree. Even though he is boy, he knows how to get lights.
The reason why I wrote about such meanless news today was because I got the giggles reading about this topic. It was a real story on a TV show called Trivia no Izumi, where 6 psychologists debated for 10 hours. A gesture which brings out a woman's motherly instinct is "He looks up and checks the bottom of the pudding cup when he is eating." orz... o.. Okay, if you say so. You may try it on next your date, and please do it with pudding. By the way people seem to have a very nice mental image for pudding. Maybe, sweet, egg, mild yellow color, innocence, mom etc,. It seems to be so true. I like pudding of course and you know, it is a magic food actually. Pudding is called "purin", the name sounds very pretty for Japanese. I don't know anyone who hates pudding around me.
Hmm pudding is a strong food like a fighter who can win with a smile, without battle. This Tokyo pudding is a comedy band that wears pudding costumes. Ha ha they are wolves in pudding's clothing!!. .... Am I confusing the post with irrelevant statements now??
Hi There
Sorry I fix the broken link!! I found interesting link, this page said how to culcrate "TAIKU ZUWARI and his lonliness".
http://www.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/physical/html/sabisisa.html
Posted by: Mari | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 08:06 AM
Mari, I find it a bit odd that a man would want to encourage motherly instincts in his date. That probably says a lot about Japanese male/female relationships- maybe you should explore that in a future post.
Posted by: Amy | Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 01:01 PM
Your link was broken, it took me a lot of work to locate the picture so I could figure out what you were talking about. So here is the correct link:
http://www.naruka.ed.jp//images/gakunen_04/2nen/2nen_y-kouryu_01.jpg
Posted by: Charles | Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 08:02 PM
people over here have a nice mental image for pudding too. i think. i do.
i can't decide if "pudding" is as nice as "purin", as a word.
i think they're both nice.
i like pudding at chilled temperature. i feel it getting warm in my mouth.
i like the way a spoon moves pudding.
now i'm getting sentimental about spoons. but it's only because when i think of "spoon", i'm really thinking of pudding.
Posted by: I am Dali | Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 07:37 AM
ネットでこうさぎと、こうさぎなどをstatementsすればよかった?
Posted by: BlogPetのtokiokun | Friday, September 09, 2005 at 10:32 AM