何か違う世界 "Different worlds"

いつの間にか、４月も後半に

Too soon, April is also in the second half.

感じ続けている違和感

The uneasiness I keep feeling.

COVID-19のせいで、これだけ世界中が混乱している

All over the world is confused by only this by a cause of COVID-19.

人の感情も正常ではいられないのかもしれない

It may be the one into which a person doesn't normally also put his personal feeling.

この美しいはずの世界が

The world which should be beautiful.

このまま美しいままでいてくれるのか

Are you here while being beautiful just as it is?

何か違う!!!???

Is it somewhat different?

 

東京タワー"Tokyo Tower"

東京タワー

Tokyo Tower

やっぱり、東京を代表するランドマークです。

I thought so, the land mark which represents Tokyo.

僕は東京、六本木に住んでいたから、このタワーのいろんな表情をまじかに見ています 

The various expressions which are this tower because I lived in Tokyo and Roppongi, oh, it's being seen directly.

大好きなのはやはりライトアップされたその姿

Its form that the one I like very much was lit up as expected

仕事で悩んでいた時

When I suffered from work.

夜の街をさまよっていた時

When a town at night was being wandered.

いつもそこにあった

It was always there.

堂々としていて、その姿は昔からの人生の目標のようなものであった

Its form was dignified, and the one like a target in a life from the past.

高層ビルのラウンジから眺めるその姿は

Its form that I look from a lounge in a skyscraper?

恋愛小説に出てくる、素敵なシーンそのものでもあった

Nice Sean who appears in a love story was also itself.

いつまでも、そこにあってほしい

Forever, I want there.

それが東京タワー

That's Tokyo Tower.

振り返り "I'll look back for about 10 years."

このBlogger(Southern Paradise)の記事を書き始めて１1年を経過しています

I begin to write an article of this Blogger (Southern Paradise), and 11 years have been passed.

記事数ももうすぐ２,950を超えようとしています

The number of articles is also going to exceed 2950 soon.

ある時は、ビジネスジェットにかかわる仕事も手伝っていたので、そのような記事もたくさん書きました、あの頃はまだ日本のHonda-Jetはできておらずアメリカやカナダの飛行機がメインでした。

When having that, I was also helping with the work to concern business jet, so Japanese Honda - Jet wasn't made yet at that time when many such articles were also written, and the United States and a Canadian airplane were Maine.

さっそうと、アタッシュケース一つで世界中を飛び回る・・・プライベートジェットでね・・・それが夢でした

It's the private jet which flies about all over the world by one attache case smartly......, that was a dream.

今でもやっぱり夢のまま

自家用で自由に空を飛び回れるのはいつのことでしょう

It's a dream even now as expected, condition

It'll be for private use and be that when can fly about the sky freely.

4月の風 "The style of April"

もう4月10日になったけど、聖火リレーはどの辺走っているんだろう?

It has been already April 10, but where will Olympic-torch relay be to pass?

市内のランニングを中止しようとする街もあるし大変ですね

There is also a town you try to cancel a running in the city where and it's serious, isn't it?

僕は、今日は土曜日だしやりかけの12弦ギターの修理をやりましょう

Today is Saturday and I'll repair 12 handle guitar on the way of doing.

キーボードも去年中古品を買って、書斎においてるので音楽にどっぷりつかっているように見えるけど、時間がなくて練習がやれていません

Keyboard also bought a used article last year, and it's put in the study, so it seems flooded with music to the hilt, but you can't have no time and practice.

絵の方もね、時間があまりとれずに、描くペースが落ちています

It's the picture, time remains and without coming, the drawn pace is slowing down.

美しい女性が何かをしている姿っていいでしょ。

It would have the good figure that a good-looking lady is doing something.

この季節からは木陰で本を読んでいる女性も素敵ですね

The lady reading a book at the shade of a tree is nice from this season, too, isn't she?

時間の調整をきちんとして、余暇を増やし

An adjustment in time, it's orderly, and, a spare time, increase

野菜や花を植えたり、絵をかいたり、ギターの練習のスケジュールの組み込みをきちんとやらねばなりません。

I have to plant a vegetable and a flower, draw a picture and include a schedule of practice of a guitar accurately.

 

サンゴ礁のある海 "The sea where a coral reef is here"

温かくなると海が恋しくなります

When it becomes warm, I come to long for a sea.

僕の家から1時間ほど車で走るとその海はあります

When I drive from my house by car for about 1 hour, the sea is here.

日南市、南郷の海 

Sea in Nichinan-city and Nango.

ゲートのある岩場

Rocky stretch with a gate.

魚釣りの有名なポイントでもあります

there's also a famous point for fishing.

海の中を覗けば、もちろんこんなサンゴ礁がありカラフルな魚が泳ぎまわっています

When looking stealthily at the inside in a sea, there is such coral reef of course, and a colorful fish is swimming around.

ここは、10万トンを超える大型客船の停泊港(油津港)もあり、この島の間を通り抜けていきます。

An anchoring harbor of a large cruise ship beyond 100,000 tons (Aburatsu harbor) is also here here, one between this island, she'll go through.

でも、COVID-19が蔓延して以来、ここには大型クルーズ船は姿を現していません

But since COVID-19 spreads, a  doesn't appear here.

春の大阪 "Osaka in spring"

最初の写真は大阪国際空港(伊丹) 

The first picture, Osaka International Airport (Itami).

４月といえば日本は新年度で通常なら移動の激しい時期ですが

When saying April, Japan is usually intense time of the movement the new year.

今年はCOVID-19の第4波が来ているようでまだ寂しげな空港です

The 4th wave of COVID-19 seems to come this year, and it's still the cheerless airport.

でも次のゴールデンウィークにはANAは８割まで便を回復させると言っています(大丈夫でしょうか?)

But I'm saying that ANA makes a flight convalescent even 80 % the next Golden Week (Is it OK?).

大阪の街中は桜がすでに満開で、散り始めている津頃もあります

There is also around a port a cherry tree has begun to be in full bloom and scatter already where in a downtown in Osaka.

大阪の真ん中を流れる大川の両岸は桜並木がとてもきれいですが

Sakuranamiki(full-bloom cherry tree road) is very clean in both banks in Okawa which flows in the middle of Osaka.

川はボートがちらほら見かけるだけで静かな様相です

 Boats just comes across it here and there, and a river is the quiet aspect.

橋を眺めると、早朝のせいか、偶然かもしれないけど車もあまり通っていません

When I look at a bridge, it may be a cause in early morning or accident, but a car doesn't also run so much.

あと10日後には、東京オリンピックの聖火リレーが、この先の大阪市中央公会堂に到着する予定でしたが、まだ成り行きが不安ですね。

Olympic-torch relay of Tokyo Olympic Games should arrive at Osaka-shi center public hall further down 10 days later more, but you're still anxious about the course, right?

４月ですね----今日は何の日 "It's April, the day when what is...today"

昨夜はこんなスィートルームで過ごしました 

I had time in such suite last night.

金髪の美人と一緒に、ベッドでいいことたくさん

Pleasant time, by a bed with a blond beauty

愛しつくされました

Making Love♡♡♡

そして今日は一日中踊りまくります

And I dance away throughout the day .

なんて

What?

嘘ですよ

False!!!

今日は４月１日、　　エイプリルフールじゃないですか

Today is April fool.

素敵な女性を描き続けています "I keep drawing wonderful lady"

 雑誌を眺めていたら、昔僕が好きだった女性に似ていたから描いてみました

If I was looking at a magazine, because it was similar to the lady I loved before, it was drawn.

ベンチで恋人を待っているのか、物思いにふけっている女性

Waiting for a sweetheart at a bench or the lady who indulges in meditation.

次の二枚は、日本のマンガ家　叶　精作さんの描く女性像を真似て

After the following two imitate the image of women Japanese cartoonist Seisaku Kano draws.

カクテルを飲む美しい女

The good-looking woman who drinks a cocktail

魔女の物語に登場するセクシーな魔女

The sexy witch who appears on witch's story.

きっと地球を破壊するような力を持つ魔女なんですよね

She have the power which probably destroys the earth.

怖くてもいいから、僕を魔法にかけて下さい

Because such good-looking witch may be afraid, I want you to cast a spell.

東京都心を眺める "I see in the middle of Tokyo "

もう3月２６日ですね

Today is already March 26.

日本の会社は１年の決算の締めで忙しい時期ですね、みなさん頑張ってね

Japanese company are time busy with end of an accounting in Year, please persevere in everyone.

最初の写真は僕が住んでいた六本木にあるANAコンチネンタルホテルから皇居方面(北側)を眺めています

The first picture is looking at the Imperial Palace district (the north side) from ANA Continental Hotel in Roppongi where I lived.

首都高速や国会議事堂も見えます

The capital freeway and the Diet Building are also seen.

次の写真はリッツカールトン東京から皇居・丸の内方面を眺めています

The next picture is looking at the Imperial Palace and Marunouchi district from Hotel Ritz Carlton Tokyo.

下を見下ろすと、赤坂の森ですが

When I look down upon the bottom, it's a forest in Akasaka.

この森には、赤坂氷川神社があります

There is Akasaka Hikawa-jinja in this forest.

ここは僕の散歩コースの途中でした

This was while it was my walking course.

ちょっと右手にそれると、小さな神社が

When I walk to the east only a little, there is a small shrine.

江戸末期から明治初期の偉人、勝海舟も通ったという久国神社があります

There is Hisakuni shrine a great person in early years of Meiji era and  Kaishu-Katsu passed from Edo last years, too.

 ここは御神籤(英語でも解説)がすごく安くて、いつも僕の運勢を占って観ていました。

 A lot (English was explained.) was very inexpensive here, and my fortune was being always predicted and seen.

いずれも歴史ある古い神社です

Both shrines are the old shrine where many history is here.

また訪ねたい場所です

One of the places at which I'd like to visit again.

春爛漫 "In spring glory. "

 緊急事態宣言も解けてみなさんいかがお過ごしですか?

 The emergency declaration is also dissolved, and how is everyone?

日曜日には花見に行かれましたか

Was it gone on by flower viewing on Sunday?

最初の写真は僕が勤務していた会社の本社裏の庭園の桜

Cherry tree in a garden in the headquarters back of the company where I was working at the first picture.

いつも綺麗に咲いていました

It always bloomed beautifully.

次の写真は僕の田舎にある桜公園の桜、あの山ののどかな風景が懐かしいです

The calm landscape of Sakura in a cherry tree park and that mountain in my country is homesick for the next picture.

最後の写真は満開の桜の花びらが風に飛ばされて、池の水面に散らばっている処

The last picture is a place where a petal of a full-blown cherry tree is transferred to a wind and scattered about a surface of the water in a pond.

卒業式は済みましたか

Was the graduation ceremony finished?

南国のこちらでは卒業式の頃が桜が満開になって

The time which is a graduation ceremony here in the tropics, after a cherry tree will be in full bloom.

花弁が風に飛ばされていくんです

Petals are being transferred to a wind.

COVID-19はまだまだ注意が必要です、十分な予防対策を心がけましょう

COVID-19 still needs attention, I'll provide for an enough prevention measure.