Mokkan is wood which mostly was used about from the 6th century to the 8th century. Mokkann is  ancient paper. People wrote letters on it and sometimes they drew pictures. A lot of pieces of  mokkan have excavated. They were used as label, notes, letters, and so on. These are real mokkan. They are about 1200 years old. You can look at kanji characters. They were excavated in Heijokyo in Nara. Heijokyo was Japanese capital in the 8th century. And now there is the historic park there. This is restored gate. I joined the project,” Let’s go seeing Mokkan in Nara! 2019″, which was held at Heijokyo with my mother […]

We have a kitchen garden. I grew a lot of vegetables there last year. Particularly I wanted to make many tomato. My neighbor sometimes give me delicious tomato juice. And I wanted to make them. So I asked my mother, “Can you buy some tomatoes? I want to make tomato juice.” She said, “I will not buy a lot of tomatoes.” So I decided to I would grow tomatoes. But I grew different vegetables at first. I first grew strawberries, pimento, and so on. Then I grew tomatoes. I went to the kitchen garden every day and pulled weeds for about one hour. I harvested a lot of tomatoes last […]

Hiromi and I often go to the mountain behind our home. We love it very much. It is good for playing. We climb the steep slope. The weeds grow on the mountain, but we go there. Hiromi was climbing the slope in the weeds. Hiromi was playing on the natural slide. She like the slide. We walked here and there in the mountain. I climbed the tree.The tree is tall. I climb the tree whenever we come here. I have to hold the limbs strongly. Then I can climb the tree. The tree is very tall so it is dangerous. But still I like to climb trees!