That Kawasumi 'yume' thing is up to over 30,000 yen already. They also have two balls signed by the U-20's, now up to 14,000 yen each (long hair not included):
No nonsense today from the girls. Three for Chiho, two for Fumika, one each for Asuka, Misaki and Eriko - her first of the year. They next play Kanto Gakuen, for whom Nakamura scored. Nittaidai survive after a penalty shoot-out. Aichi Toho University 0 - 8 Kibi International University Mukogawa Women's University 1 - 3 Kanto Gakuen University Sendai University 0 - 1 Himeji Hinomoto College University of Tsukuba 0 - 0 Nippon Sport Science University Nippon Sport Science University win 5-4 on penalties Tomorrow's hardcore last eight matches: Waseda University v. Shizuoka Sangyo University Musashigaoka College v. Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences Kibi International University v. Kanto Gakuen University Himeji Hinomoto College v. Nippon Sport Science University
I know the question can sound silly for a Japanese, and anyway, by the photo, it seems to be that work of calligraphy that we saw Nahomi and other NT members made about a year ago, but what exactly is a yume? a Google research didn't help me much about that... Oh, really? I thought Ayu was the part of the photo that was being auctioned... I was even going to make an offer to take her home...
This is versus the hosts and eventual winners Here's a member of the Japanese coaching staff giving his post match interview in Portuguese And here's a full match vs Ukraine I saw some other stuff with Japan taking on (the other finalist) Brazil too, and of course I now have absolutely no idea where the footage may be .
As it happens, yume is the second character in Nakada's name: 歩夢, so that should help you remember, maybe... I'm not sure what her calligraphy teacher taught of this one. Being from Iwate, Iwashimizu went for this:
Higashiyama Maiko and Suwa Erina have left Niigata. Also Otomo Maiko, Nakamura Saki and Nakaoka Maiko have retired.
I like Kawasumi's work. I have heard that her grandfather is an authority of calligraphy but I didn't know she is good like this.
Yes, I like Kawasumi's too, by the way her signed boots are now up to 81,000 yen. For anyone who's never tried this, I can assure you from personal experience that it's much, much harder than it looks. You can try over and over and your efforts still look terrible. My father-in-law is very good at it, so for funerals he gets all the writing jobs. Here's Sakaguchi's yume: Of course it makes up part of her name.
When's it on? Like everyone else in Japan, I'm eagerly looking forward to the New Year's Eve "Don't laugh or we'll hit you hard with big sticks" programme.
Cool, I never miss the bottom-hitting thing, it's quality TV. I usually switch back and forth between it and the Kouhaku.
More news. From Takatsuki, Tanaka Ayako has moved to Ange Violet, Arakawa Tomoe has moved to Ehime and Yoshino Yuka has moved to Bunnys. Go Bunnys!
I can't still exactly grasp why a work of calligraphy is called a "dream"... You should know that, although eastern cultures give great importance to calligraphy art, we in Europe are not the same, and we somehow can't understand exactly what it's about... can you give a quick explanation for dummies about how do you judge a work of calligraphy? What's exactly so good about Kawasumi's work? What are the main elements of a "cool" yume? Even if I am not an expert (or better: i know nothing about it), I guess I can see why poor Rumi Utsugi's work is quite... meh!
was Otomo Maiko Albirex GK? Mmm, what are they doing in Japan? INAC's recruitment campaign just started? Always go Bunnys!!!!
No no, the word that she wrote is yume, which means dream. That's not the word for calligraphy. Kawasumi's is very well proportioned, it's very easy to get part of the character wrong, by making it too big or small or getting the gap between the sections wrong. I once practiced writing 三 for ages, just three horizontal lines, and couldn't get it right.
Otomo Maiko was indeed the goalkeeper, started 17 of the 18 league games and came on as a sub in the other. Remember then she didn't play against the Academy. The two Americans are here to join Bunnys. You heard it here first.
I've circled the important parts as I remember them, but I'm no expert, I just did it with my pupils whenever a master came in to teach us. Top stroke: splosh the brush down properly, stop properly. Long stroke in the middle: this is hard, you have to stop and then turn and come down and stop, and do it well or it looks all wrong. Bottom: lift the brush so that you get that 'tail' effect. Notice how the earlier stokes don't have that, nor should they.
It's very difficult to explain but basically, I think it's a same to other arts, it's about you like or not. I like her work because her touch is no hesitation, cheerful, bit manly but methodical at balance. These are well explain her character.
Matsubara Kei selects U20 all stars of eastern and western teams. east: Ikeda Nakamura, Wada, Muramatsu, Doko Fujita, Naomoto, Tanaka Mina, Shibata, Momiki Michigami, Hasegawa west: Takenaka Miyake, Norimatsu, Hamada Narumiya, Yokoyama, Tanaka Yoko, Nakada Masuya, Kyokawa, Nishikawa
No Nakamura Mizuki? I thought she was really good. I'd very much like the Japan-Sweden match, now that joelps isn't going to upload any more. Geez, don't scare me like that! For a second I was thinking of this girl... I love the way the initially strong black ink softly fuses with the white canvas until there are but hints of strokes left. It teaches us all about the evanescence of dreams, life, and a bowl of ink. What a wonderful example of post-modern meta-realism.
Oh I thought that was Nakamura Yushika. No? Also, do these all-stars play a game or are they just on-paper teams?