{"id":45624,"date":"2020-02-27T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=45624"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:20:14","slug":"wit-life-339-curious-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/27\/wit-life-339-curious-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #339: Curious Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer<\/strong><\/em> Stacy Smith<\/a>\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken<\/a>\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life<\/a>, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I had the chance to check out the newest exhibition at the Sato Sakura Gallery<\/a>, Curious Beasts. As the name indicates, this collection of paintings is of animal portraits ranging from cats and tigers to dogs and birds. The works are from the artists Fumika Koda and Yuji Musashihara, and being a cat lover I was partial to Koda’s paintings as they mostly feature felines. In particular, I liked her painting Beautiful Spring Day<\/em> (\u6625\u3046\u3089\u3089, haru urara), which shows a cat caught under falling cherry blossoms (\u82b1\u5439\u96ea, hanafubuki<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beautiful Spring Day<\/em> (\u6625\u3046\u3089\u3089)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Musashihara\u2019s bengal tiger portrait adorning the gallery window is especially powerful. He also has a cute cat painting called Hide and Seek<\/em> (\u304b\u304f\u308c\u3093\u307c, kakurenbo), which shows a kitten dwarfed by temari (\u624b\u6bec) balls. The exhibition runs through March 28, so make sure to check out all the interesting creatures who lie in wait for your visit! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hide and Seek<\/em> (\u304b\u304f\u308c\u3093\u307c)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interpreter\/Translator\/Writer Stacy Smith\u00a0(Kumamoto-ken\u00a0CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching\u00a0Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her\u00a0own observations. Recently I had the chance to check out the newest exhibition at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,53,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-events","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t