2025.5.23

It was rainy when I left home but became fine and cloudy later.

I took a day off to attend a monitor tour to Togoku sansha visiting tour.

Meeting time was 8:15 at Tokyo station, so I went there around 8 AM. However, it was a different place as usual. I realized around the meeting time and headed for the right place. I managed to be there in time.

There were three shrines to visit. I visited there on October 30, 2020 last time. They were under construction this time.

It seems there will be a big festival next year. I hope to be back to see the festival.

To my sad my strage became full and I could not take pictures, so I deleted many things. To my shock it seems many pictures I took today were also deleted by mistake.

After coming back to Tokyo I had dinner with my friend.

To my glad my 166th ebook has been No.1 in the USA and Japan.

2025.5.22

It was fine.

I stayed and worked at home all day long.

I saw the beautiful sunset.

There was a fireworks festival in Zushi. I heard sound but could not see anything.

At night I attended a zoom seminar.

2025.5.21

It was cloudy.

In Gifu it became more than30 degrees centigrade,which is called moshobi (猛暑日), extremely hot day.

Today is shoman (小満), one of nijushisekki, 24 solar terms.Last one was rikka (立夏) on May 5 and the next one is boshu (芒種) on June 5.

There was a big news.Shinjiro Koizumi became Minister of Agriculture after Minister of Agriculture was replaced.He is from my constituency.

Tonight I harvested butterburs for the third time.

2025.5.20

It was fine.

In more than 200 places it became more than 30 degrees centigrade which is mid summer day.

It is still May. We are afraid of the heat of July and August.

There was once a month zoom gathering about pilgrimage.

I heard many interesting places to visit.

I accepted some friend's request who have mutual friends. But I feel there is something wrong.

2025.5.19

It was cloudy.

My present campaign of the 165 ended up as No.1 in the USA, Germany, Spain and Japan.

And the next campaign has started.

After work I went to post office to pay annual fee of the Academic societies.

There is a supermarket nearby. So I decided to visit. I bought meat.

At night I attended a zoom session.

2025.5.18

It was fine, cloudy, rain, and fine again.

There was a community work called "Clean Day" which happens twice a year. It started at 8AM and lasted for about an hour.

After coming home, I knew there was a festival at Otsu Suwa jinja shrine in spite of heavy rain and wind yesterday by the newspaper.

So I decided to go to see the second day of the Onbashirasai festival. I arrived around 11:20AM and stayed there after 18:20 or so. It's been 1200 years since the shrine was founded. Amazing, isn't it?

To my glad my 165th ebook has become No.1 in Germany.

2025.5.17

It was a windy rainy day.

I gave up going out but stayed at home all day long,

I prepared and published the 166th ebook about my trip to Fuji by Bus Tour.

To my glad my 165th book has been No.1 in the USA, Spain, and Japan.

At night I had a zoom meeting and enjoyed talking.

2025.5.16

It was cloudy.

After work I went to ATM and shopping. I was going to ATM of the Post Office, but it was already closed.

There was a zoom session at night. I thought it was from 7:30PM but it started at 7PM. Even it was alreay 7:25PM I am glad to listen.

To my glad my 165th ebook has been No.1 in Spain and Japan.

I watched 'Mission Impossible" on TV. They say Part II and III will be on Air before the new one will be released.

2025.5.15

It was fine.

I went to the nearby shrine before going to work as a ritual of the 15th day.

After work I went to ATMs and shopping. I bought 5kg rice. Price of rice has been increasing since last year. I found 5kg rice less than yen4000, and decided to buy.

On my way home I stopped at Tateishi to take the sunset pictures.

To my glad my 165th ebook became No.1 in Spain.

2025.5.14

It was fine.

I stayed and worked at home.

I took three hours off to attend a seminar.

During the seminar there were some phrases I was inspired. Ooe of them was time is not equaI to everyone. I have believed that one day is 24 hours which is the only truth for everyone. But he said no. If you have money, you can hire people. If you do, you have more free time.

So to make more free time I want to be wealthy.

After that there were two sharing opportunties about the seminar.

From today present of 165th ebook started.

2025.5.13

It was fine.

Today it is the fullmoon. They say it is called Flower Moon.

To my glad my 164th ebook about sunlight in April has been No.1 in the USA and Japan and my 165th ebook about Expo 2025 has been No.1 in Japan.

Now I am preparing the No.166th ebook about the bus tour to Fuji.

Tomorrow I will take three hours off to attend a webinar.

2025.5.12

It was cloudy.

From today the cafeteria reopened. There were many sweets today.

After coming home I have harvested the butterburs for the second time this spring.They grow so fast.

Every Monday night at 9PM I attend the face washing meeting by zoom. There was a new comer tonight.

To my glad my 164th ebook has been No.1 in Japan. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

2025.5.11

It was fine during day time but rained at night.

I stayed at home all day long.

I published the 165th ebook about my trip to Expo 2025 today.

There will be an event in Kyoto next month. Therefore, I decided to visit Expo again next month.

At night I attended a zoom event as a guest speaker. In spite of pre−announce lives many times there were not so many audience. But I enjoyed talking about my experience.

2025.5.10

It was a rainy day.

There was an event I was going to attend but I decided to stay at home and attended  the event by zoom.

Besides that I prepared the presentation for tomorrow night.

I started making the 165th ebook.

Present campaign of the 163rd ebook was over and to my glad it became No.1 in the USA and Japan.

From today the 164th ebook campaign started.

2025.5.9

It was cloudy.

I took two hours off to go to Tokyo to attend the monthly meeting after a long time.

There was something wrong with the Map application, and I could not find the venue and was late for 20 minutes.

Since it was the day of Tiger which is a good day to deal with money I paid and sold sold some stocks.

After the meeting it started raining.I had dinner and came home late.

2025.5.9

It was cloudy durng daytime and rained at night.

I took two hours off to go to Tokyo to attend a monthly meeting.

Since map application didn't work I walked around and arrived 20 minutes later.

After that I had dinner and came home late.

Today is the day of Tiger when is a good time to deal with money. So I paid and sold some stocks.

There will be an IWPG event tomorrow.

2025.5.8

Happy Birthday to Me!

Another year has passed. How fast time flies!

It was fne today.

I stayed and worked at home today.

During lunch time I went to the nearby shrine to thank for the past year and ask for the next year.

To commemorate my birthday I published my 164th ebook about sunlight pictures of April today.

To my glad my 163rd ebook became No.1 in Japan.

At night I attended a live event to anounce my presentation next Sunday night.

It was a nice birthday.

2025.5.7

It was fine but cool at office.

After the Golden Week I got some sweets for souvenirs.

To my glad I got a birthday present from my friend from U.K. It's been more than 25 years since we met in the Ground Circle tour in the USA before attending wedding ceremony of my American friend's from Expo 92.

After COVID−19 it became difficult to send something by airmail. So I did not send her birthday present.

I submit the 164th ebook draft.

2025.5.6

It was a cold rainy day.

Today is a transferred holiday and the last day of the Golden Week.

I stayed at home all day long.

To my glad my 163rd ebook has been No.1 in Japan.

I started to prepare for the next ebook which I will publish on my birthday this year.

I prepared for the presentation for next Sunday.

2025.5.5

It was fine.

Today is a national holiday called Kodomo no hi (こどもの日), Children's Day.

Today is rikka (立夏), one of nijushisekki (二十四節気), 24 solar terms. Last one was kokuu (穀雨) on April 20 and the next one is shoman (小満) om May 21.

I walled to the station and got on 9:50 train to Sakura. There was a special exhibition about Nishikie (錦絵), color print at the National Museum of Japanese History. This is the second time for me to go there. Last time I could not see everything.

Today my friend and I ate lunch, saw the Nishikie exhibition and regular exhibition and walked around the garden.

After that we went to have dinner.

On my way home on the train I attended a zoom session.

I came home around 11PM.

2025.5.4

It was fine.

Today is a national holiday called Midori no hi, Green Day.

I got up early to take the first train. I went to Shinjuku to attend a bus tour to Yamanashi to see Fuji Shibazakura Festival.  We were supposed to visit three places but it was so crowded that it took long to go, therefore we had to skip one place.

Weather was so nice and Mt.Fuji looked so beautiful with Moss phloxes.

The second place was Arakurayama sengen park where I have been once. Last time I could not see Mt. Fuji but I saw the beautiful Mt.Fuji.

I could not have lunch but I enjoyed the beautifuk sceneries.

2025.5.3

It was fine.

It is the first day of the second half of the Golden Week.

Today is a national holiday called Kenpo kinen bi (憲法記念日), Constitution Day.

I stayed at home all day long.

I washed winter clothings and cleared kimono I wore last week.

I prepared the documents for pension receiving and made a reservation to visit the office. I wrote some emails to ask something.

I attended a zoom seminar at night.

I made the 163rd ebook.

2025.5.2

It was a rainy day.

I am glad to have completed the pending issues at work.

At night I attended two zoom webinars.I was surprised to hear the success stories.

From tomorrow there will be the latter half of the Golden Week. Most people have four days off.

There will be festivals here and there which I am interested in. But I may not be able to visit thIs year.

2025.5.1

A new month has started.

May is gogatsu (5月、五月) or Satsuki (皐月) in Japanese.

As the first day of the month I changed plants, rice, salt, water of the in−house shrine.

I stayed and worked at home.

Today is hachiju hachiya (八十八夜), 88th night from the first day of spring. It is the new season of picking tea leaves. 

I attended two zoom seminars.