Kaiyukan Aquarium scuba divers to spot 'setsubun'
Divers ready to go up similar to "oni" (ogres or trolls from Japanese folklore) will be looming at Kaiyukan Aquarium in Minato Ward, Osaka, from Saturday to Feb. 3.
The special eventuality outlines the day of "setsubun," literally the section between seasons. It often refers to the commencement of spring and falls on Feb. 3. To coherent divided bad air and immorality intoxicating beverage that are believed to come out around the spring setsubun, "mame maki" bean-throwing ceremonies are hold in that oni are pelted with dehydrated beans.
The oni scuba divers will show up in the Pacific Ocean container for 40 mins starting at 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 3:40 p.m. daily, and will stance for photographs.
The aquarium is a five-minute travel from Osakako Station on the Chuo transport line. Tickets are 2,000 for adults, 900 for facile and subordinate high college students, and 400 for young kids elderly 4 and olde..
For more information, meeting the aquarium's data core at (06) 6576-5501 or revisit www.kaiyukan.com (in Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese and other languages).
Manga notable relic explores the humanities and the public
The Kyoto International Manga Museum will horde a public conference on the utility of the humanities in the public at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 22 in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto.
The symposium, patrician "On the Social Uses of Art," will be in two parts. The initial session, running from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., will confer the functions of German ? la mode sculptor Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), who formulated the process of "social sculpture," in that he explored the amicable function of art. The second part, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., will confer what the humanities and artists can do for society, notably after the Tohoku earthquake. The conference will be in Japanese.
There will be 250 seats and people will be agreed on a first! -come, f irst-served basis. Admission to the notable relic is 800 for adults, 300 for subordinate and high college students, and 100 for facile college students.
For serve information, meeting the Kyoto Seika University's Library and Information Center at (075) 702-5140, phone the notable relic at (075) 254-7414 or access kyotomm.jp (in Japanese, English, French, Korean and Chinese).
Concert, harangue on Mongolian low-pitched instrument
A Mongolian "morin khuur" unison and harangue will be hold from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in Nagata Ward, Kobe.
The morin khuur is a normal Mongolian arched stringed instrument. For this event, Chun Lan, a morin khuur musician who before complicated Japanese and song at Kobe University, will give a harangue on the instrument's characteristics and fool around a few tunes. There will be a hands-on session where participants can try out the instrument. The eventuality will be in Japanese.
Twenty people will be agreedon a first-come, first-served basis. Please call the organizer initial to examine for availability. Participation is 840, that needs to be paid by Jan. 26, possibly by receiving the allowance right away to the organizer or by sending a "gyubin kogawase" (postal order) or "kitte" (postal stamps) by mail. In box of postal stamps, greatfully send 4 10 stamps and 10 80 stamps.
The venue is Kobe Asian Plaza, that in on the fourth building of Shoes Plaza, a three-minute travel north of Shin Nagata Station on the JR Kobe Line.