Saturday, November 30, 2013

下町ぶらぶら - Strolling in Down Towns

11/16は中学校からの仲良しの友人と、下町散策。
小春日和で、たんぽぽまで咲いてて、
ふたりともおみくじは「大吉」で、
寅さんが愛した天丼も草団子も美味しくて、
変わらないものがうれしくて、
でも、大人になってしまったことのさみしさも感じちゃった、一日。
日本人なら誰でも知ってる(?)寅さんの町、柴又をのんびり楽しんでから、
お寺の中にあるプラネタリウムを鑑賞。
笑いあり、涙ありの、とっておきの一日に。


☆寅さんシリーズ、実は、1本も通しで観たことがないのだ。
「そういえば、ふーてんって何なの?」と聞いたら
友人が優しく「まあ、ぷーたろーってことよ」って教えてくれた。
お、実際はテキ屋さんらしい?
すごいね、いつも恋しちゃってるんでしょ?寅さんって。ラテン系?
そう言えば、リチャード・ギアがフランス人的寅さんをCMで演じてて面白い。 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjeaoDgcYFs

☆帝釈天からもほど近い山本亭
こじんまりながら、オススメです。 米国の日本庭園専門誌「ジャーナル・オブ・ジャパニーズガーデニング」が実施した日本庭園ランキング調査で山本亭は、2004年〜2007年の4年連続で3位にランクされましたそうです。(そうなの?)

☆お寺”プラネターリアム”銀河座
結構つっこみどころ満載。 
設備、素晴らしいです。床暖房だし。本当、今年一番気持ち良かった。お昼寝が。
星の話より別のことしか記憶に残ってないかも。
そもそも星の話が、どうでも良いイタリア語とかで台無しのような。。。



I strolled around down towns in Tokyo with my best friend from junior high school.
It was the perfect day of an Indian summer, dandelions in blossoms, both of our written oracles said we would have the best of luck, enjoyed local yummy foods. - We had so much fun. It was a special day for us like we went back to being school girls. So happy, we still have the same friendship ever after while we felt the bitterness to know we are already grown up enough.

We enjoyed Shibamata, a famous for Tora-san’s home town then went to a planetarium in a temple.  Almost all of the Japanese must know about Tora-san, the chief character of good old Japanese movie series “Otoko wa tsurai yo”.

☆To tell the truth, I've never watch any of “Tora-san” movies thoroughly until the end roll.
So I am not pretty sure about what he is doing except wandering around the country but know he always falls in love with a lady. He must be passionate guy like the Latin.
Recently, Richard Gere acts a French Tora-san in TV commercial film of “Orangina” in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjeaoDgcYFs
The Japanese beverage manufacturer has the concept there is the common point between “Tora-san” & “Orangina” as “national wide popularity”. - Orangina is national wide popular than Coke in France.

Yamamoto-Tei near Shibamata Taishakuten, Buddhist temples; good place to visit
In an American magazine "Journal of Japanese Gardening", Yamamoto-Tei was ranked as 3rd place for 4 years in a row from 2004 to 2007.  (...Really?)

Planetarium Theater Galaxy at a temple 
Yes, they have such fine facility with floor heating system. It is the best cozy little place I ever visited this year… truly the perfect place to have a nap.
We could not remember about the stars but only the navigators’ strange conversations in fragments during the show. One of the navigators is the chief priest of that temple and somehow disturbing the other navigator who tries her best to give us logical explanation about the stars. We are afraid he must be ultra‐Italianized person always trying to say something in Italian & he thinks it’s cool...

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