Welcome or Yookoso

Yookoso,

This Blog has been put together as part of my travels around the globe to study martial arts. The first part of my blog and the contents of it will be focused on the study of the Japanese arts. So I am travelling to Japan on 31st May 2010 to start my journey.
I am a strong believer that all forms of martail arts have their strong and weak points. As many great masters will tell you, to understand the way of your enemy (opponent) is to defeat them.
I take no side with any one martial art, but I do believe that a person must study a system or style to it's fullest to gain a greater understanding before the weakness or strengths can be identerfied.
Therefore I have devoted my lift to the martial arts.

Japanese Tip list.

Japanese Tip list



I want people from all over the place to help with this so if you have been to Japan and have a good tip let me know. Send the Tip to my Email address then I can post it. makiofska@gmail.com

Also if you know of some where cool to go that is also welcome, send them in.





Ok I have three tips and thats from the frist week. So by the end we should have loads.



Tip 1. Don't take lighters on the planes in Japane. Not cool.



Tip 2. Do take gifts they have gone down a strom. This must have been the best tip yet.



Tip 3. If your going to use the train in Toky and or buses get a PassMo card. Its like the English Oyster card. Don't worry if you can't speak Japanese all of the ticket machine can be changed to english. Sweet.

Tip4. Don't use the train if you can help it between 6:00pm and 8:00pm so meany such small trains. Its not the faced they just cram as meany people on as they can but every one needs to be doing something, PSP, reading a book or news paper. I almost punshed him.

Keep them coming

Sunday, 13 June 2010

Shinobi to Onsen

Watashi wa Onsen ga suki desu. dattebayo





So on the 5th June 2010 Hagiwara Yukatasan (for this I might call him PappaSan it is easier) Took me to his mountain holiday home in Naganoken. We stayed in a traditional Japanese house. We eat on the floor, We drunk on the floor and we slept on the floor as well. The house was very cool.
I also got to go to a traditional Japanese bath house in a spring town called Bessho. The Japanese call the hot baths Onsen. Its amazing even though some of the men old and young have modern houses with baths and running water they still chose to live a life of using the springs to bathe every day.

Onsen is said to be more than just a bath to clean the body but to cleanse the mind and spirit also. I love how no mater how fast the world is traveling or how hard the people of Japan work they find time to make room for the past. From Sado, to making a traditional house or martial arts. This is why I think I love this place so much they put a massive sense of spirit and emotion into every.

As for the Shinobi, well on the way to and from the house at Naganoken we stopped at some Temples and shrine and a castle nicked name crow castle for its dark and simple design.
(Yes I know that the castle is decorative but the Japanese think not.)The Castle is called Matsumoto Jo or Matsumoto Oshiro. It is said to be a ninja castle and this is the reason for the dark colour. The castle is about 400years old and don't light a match as the hole place is made of wood and what can only be described as wotal and dorb. (clay, straw and stones.) The Castle took almost 60 years to make. The north wing is younger by some 40 years and was built as a moon adservarie. It was very cool and I will be putting it on my top tips. Sagui.

I also saw some shrines this first one is 800 years old. The rest are the same age or younger. Looking good for 400 hay.





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2 comments:

  1. Sarah16 June 2010 at 01:19

    Hi Dan, great pictures - you look as if you are having a great time.
    What do they do at the shrines? Just pray? Burn incense? Who are the shrines for/to? Are they just tourist destinations now or still in use?
    Sarah x

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  2. Unknown5 August 2010 at 11:21

    Hi michel How is going m8,are u on 2nd level of invisibility???? hopefly u r.
    But the way u got mega giga super photos,but one is missing ,where is ninja master uniform ????.
    HAVE GOOD TIME m8

    PS
    PLS wait for me near to this tree on the left

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