悪疫退散 "Plague dispersal"

私の住んでいる地域では夜神楽があることを１１月にも紹介しましたが、この踊りで踊っているのは鬼ではありません

 It was also introduced in November that there is Shinto music and dancing played at night in the area where I live, but it isn't a Demon that dancing by this dance.

神様です

They are Gods!!.

主に五穀豊穣や悪霊退散、家内安全などを祈願してくれます

They pray productiveness of grains, an evil spirit dispersal and wife safety mainly.

中にはこんなに可愛い踊り手もいます

There is a cute dancer, too.

今年から来年前半にかけては、主に悪疫(COVID-19)に退散願いましょう

Would a plague (COVID-19) disperse mainly to the first half next year from this year?

「鬼滅の刃」も悪疫(COVID-19)を切りまくってもらいましょう

"Blade of Kimetsu(The demon limit)" will also have them cut and cut a plague (COVID-19).

現在、認定が進んでいる各製薬会社や研究所のワクチンの効果が絶大でありますように。

As the effect of the vaccine of each pharmaceutical company and the research center authorization is advancing at present is enormous.

この刃はワクチンかもしれませんね。

This blade may be a vaccine.

 

お正月まであとわずか"The back is little until New Year's"

 クリスマスを直前にして、お正月のことを書くのは少し早いかもしれないけど

To do Christmas just before and write New Year's may be early.

年賀状は書きましたか?? (クリスマスカードは当然とっくに発送してますよね)

Was a New Year's card written? (A Christmas card is shipped off already of course.)

年賀状はまだ出来上がっていません

New Year's cards has not been finished yet.

文面を考えたりも大変です

Contents of a letter are considered, and it's serious.

これは過去に出した年賀状のあいさつ文や自分で描いた絵がらです

This is a greeting sentence and one of the New Year's card sent in the past, and a drawn picture.

絵の和服姿で挨拶しているのは娘がモデルでした

My daughter was a model for greeting by the form of Japanese clothes of the picture.

急いで、お正月に間に合わせるようにしましょう

I'll have done at New Year's quickly.

ところで、クリスマスの準備はいかがでしょうか?

By the way how about preparations at Christmas?

都会で暮らすか、田舎暗しか? "Whether you live at a city, only the country an? "

僕はつい少し前までは田舎にコテージでも立てて暮らしたいと思っていた

I thought I could leave the cottage for the country until several years ago, and would like to live.

森の中で、山菜を採り、焼物や彫刻をして暮らす 

I adopt wild vegetable, do pottery and a sculpture and live in the forest.

仙人のような暮らしがしてみたいと思った。

I thought I'd like to do living like an immortal.

でも、近頃はね、都会に適度に近くて自然がたくさんあればそれでいいと考えるようになった

But it's these days, I came to think that's OK when it's near a city moderately, and there is much nature.

何でもすぐに手に入る便利さを享受すると、それがなかなかできない田舎暮らしは辛いかな

と考えるようになった、歳をとったせい??

When the convenience which will get everything immediately is enjoyed, is that hard on the country living which won't be done easily?

The cause for which the year I came to consider was taken?

僕のなまけ癖のせいかな??

Cause of my habit of laziness?

写真はカナダ、バンク―バー近郊でした

Pictures were Canada and a Vancouver suburb.

セクシーポーズを描いてみました "Sexy pose was drawn."

休日や眠れないときは描いています

Holiday and the time when I can't sleep are being drawn.

やっぱり女性の姿がいいですね 

It has the good figure of a lady as expected, doesn't it?

雑誌に掲載されている写真をモデルに

Modeled after the picture which appears on a magazine.

ペンタブレットを使って遊んでいます

I'm playing using a pen tablet.

上手だと言ってくれる人が多いのですが

There are a lot of people who say that they're good.

それはね、モデルにしている写真がいいんですよ

It's that, the picture made a model, that's all right.

出会っちゃった!! "Two birds came!!"

ウサギが1匹(1羽と呼ばれることもある) 

1 of rabbit (is called 1 bird).

こともある目の周りと長い耳が黒い

Around the eye a fact is also and a long ear are black.

2匹目のウサギ、身体全体が白いですね

The 2nd of rabbit and the whole body are white,

いつの間にか2匹は近づいて仲良くしています

2 are approaching, are being on good terms and are doing all too soon.

恋人達なのでしょうか?

Sweethearts?

日本ではウサギを鳥のように1羽２羽と数えるときがあります。

There is time when rabbit is ranked as 1 bird and 2 birds like a bird in Japan.

何故かって、昔、獣を食べることができなかった僧侶が二本足で立つウサギを鳥類としてこじつけて食べたという説と、長い耳が羽に似ているからという説があるんですよ。

For some reason, the priests who couldn't eat an animal before are the opinion which strained and ate the rabbit two rise by a foot as the bird and the one with the opinion by which a long ear says to a feather because it's similar.

自分を誉めてあげよう"I'd like to praise myself."

 12月3日、 On December 3.

このブログをスタートしたのが、2009年12月5日

実に11年も投稿し続けているんです、すでにこの記事で2904回目 

こんなに長く続けられたことに、先ずは自分を誉めたいと思います

It's December 5, 2009 that this blog has been started.

Very, I also keep contributing for 11 years, it's this article already, the 2904th time

I'd like to praise myself almost in its being continued so lengthily.

色んな国にも行きました

I also went to various countries.

写真も10万枚以上撮って、このブログにはほんの一部ですが1万枚近く載せているはずです

More than 100,000 pictures are also taken, and it's just one in this blog, but nearly 10,000 should be put.

続けてこれたのはもここに寄ってくださる皆様のおかげです、ありがとうございます

The one which could be continued is everybody's favor by which a pike eel comes near here, thank you very much.

それと、もう一つのブログ/　And another blog

future-compass/

2017年からスタートして4年になり毎日のよう更新してきましたので、こちらもたまには覗いてくださいね

4 years had passed since it started from 2017, and daily YOU was being renewed, so please sometimes also look stealthily at this.

11月も終わり"End of November"

 11月30日、通常時ならクリスマス商戦が始まって活気のある時期なんだけど今年はどうなんだろう。

If it's usually time on November 30, a Christmas sales battle starts and is lively time, but how is this year?

今、日本のアニメ「鬼滅の刃」が流行っているんだけど、主人公の刃でCOVID-19を切り捨ててもらいましょう

Japanese animation "Kimetsu-no-Yaiba(Blade of destroyed Demon)" is popular now, you'll cut off COVID-19 by main character's blade.

ちょっと前に行ったあの街はとても賑やかだったけど、今年はどうなのかな?

That town where you went to the front was slightly very busy, but how is this year?

写真はバンクーバー/ picture is Vancouver.

今年のクリスマスプレゼントはこの病気に効果的なワクチンかな、早くみんなに行き渡ると

いいよね。

Is this year's Christmas present a vaccine effective in this sickness, when I spread over everyone early.

It's good, isn't it?

皆さんが素敵な１２月を過ごせますように

So that everyone can spend nice December.

旅に出たい "I'd like to go out to travel "

日本国内では、ゴーツートラベルキャンペーンで国内旅行を推奨していますが、一部では海外旅行の受け入れも解禁の検討も進んでいるようです

Domestic travel is being recommended by a go too travel promotion in Japan, but an acceptance of overseas travel and consideration of permission seem developed by the part.

でもCOVID-19は収まるどころか、寒くなって猛威を振るっています

COVID-19 isn't settled, but it becomes cold, and, rage, splendid.

僕も旅に出たいのですが、数年前に撮った写真を眺めながら想いをはせます。

I'd like to go out to travel, too, feelings are driven while looking at the picture taken several years before.

写真はシアトルの街です、写真の向こうにうっすらと雪をかぶった山が見えるのですが

A picture is a town in Seattle, the mountain where snow was put on dimly over the picture is seen.

次の写真はカナダの湖

The next picture is a Canadian lake.

バンクーバーの街並み

Streets in Vancouver.

もう雪の季節ですよね

It's already a season of snow, isn't it?

早くワクチンが完成して皆が接種できるようになるといいですね

Vaccine will be completed early, and I hope that everyone can inoculate now it.

楽しい夜神楽 "Fun Shinto music and dancing played at night"

晩秋になると、高千穂や椎葉あたりでは毎年夜神楽がもようされるが、今年はCOVID-19の関係で一般公開は中止されているようです

In a late fall, Takachiho and, Shinto music and dancing played at night does a design every year per Shiiba, but it seems that public opening is canceled by a relation of COVID-19 this year.

その地方の神事として冬の間夜通し行われる神楽の舞、色んな面やストーリーがあって見ごたえのある催しです

There are a dance, various sides and a story of the Shinto music and dance numbers performed all night during winter as the local Shinto ritual, and it's an event with the impression.

中には夫婦に扮して少し猥褻なしぐさをする舞もあります。

A medium has Mai who has a slightly obscene action dressed like a married couple, too.

本来は五穀豊穣、家内安全などを祈願して行う神事ですが

The Shinto ritual which prays and does wife safety.

ことしは疫病退散を強く願って、クローズでしょうが神事を行ってくれるものと信じています。

I'll wish a plague dispersal hard this year, and it's closure, but I believe to do a Shinto ritual.

来年は良い歳になりますよう

So that it'll be the good year next year.

 

鳥 "Birds"

我々に親しみ深い鳥たち

Birds familiar to us.

最初の写真はカナダで撮った写真だけど、鳩はどこにでもたくさんいますね。

子供たちにも愛されています

The first picture is the picture taken in Canada, but there are many pigeons everywhere, aren't there?

It's loved by children, too.

有る時、日本に来たばかりの中国人の女性が、鳩がこんなにたくさん、何故日本人はこの鳩を食べないんですか?という質問をされたことがあります。

The female of the time and the Chinese who has just come to Japan who has that, pigeon, so much, why doesn't Japanese eat this pigeon? You have done the question which says so.

日本人には鳩を食べる習慣はありません。

Japanese has no customs that pigeon is eaten.

次は近くの川でよく見かける黒い鳥、川鵜でしょうか?

水に潜っては小魚を捕まえて飲み込んでいます

Is the next the black chicken and river cormorant across which you often come at a river around here?

Since diving in water, a fry is caught and understood.

次の写真は僕の家にしばらく巣を作っていた、黒い燕さんの子供達

Children in black Swallows where the next picture was building a nest for a while in my house.

今はいないけどどこか遠い国に帰って行ったのでしょうか?

They wasn't here now, but did you return to some far countries and go?

最後はカラフルな小鳥、 可愛い声で僕の目覚ましになってくれます。

The end will be my alarm clock by a colorful little bird and pretty voice.