Saturday, July 28, 2007

Yasukuni Shrine







Good evening, Every one!!


My name is Yoko Ichimura. I belong to the College of Business in Rikkyo university.


Today, I am going to write about Yasukuni shrine with same photos.


On Friday, some members of LF went to yasukuni shrine as our fieldwork. It was really hot and cicadas were so noisy.
By the way, I've ever heard that only Japanese express the sound of cecada as "song" not "noise". Do you like the songs of cicadas?


Some people prayed and drew fortune slips (omikuji in Japanese). Fotunately, I got Daikichi. According to the Japanese-English dictionary, Daikichi means "very good luck" in English!!


We visited Yushu-kan and saw many historical materials exhibited from an unique point of view.


After we came back to Rikkyo university, we shared our impression of Yasukuni shrine. The visit to the shrine was a nice incentive for us to study history. And we also discussed about what impartial HISTORY is.



2 comments:

Yohta said...

After visiting Shince Yasukuni shrine, I realized how important it is to know something by practice, instead of studying on the desk. True, learnig through books or the Inter-net is important, but what I got interested in the visiting was that the actual atmosphere in the shrine,whici is difficult to know through books. Also, discussion about "impartial history" was very
incentive for me too.

LF2007 said...

I felt that everyone who visited Yasukuni had different impacts. If you have never been there,I recommend you actually visit there and show how you felt looking around Shrine and "Yushuukan", historical musium located in Yasukuni.

I have a question for people who have been there.
Was The image for Yasukuni changed through field work?