□July 18, 2005(Sunday)
Talks on the exhibition works was held by Kakuya Oishi and his great artist friends.
Over 50 artists participated and gave talks.
A child asked “What kind of life have you led?”
Kakuya answered “I have led my life as I liked“.
The two-hour talk was very exciting.



□July 7, 2005(Friday)
A ceramic kiln was made and completed today at Art-yama.
Mr.KS, a volunteer from Ako, made the kiln.
Now you can enjoy making ceramics when you visit Art-yama.



□July 3, 2005(Sunday)
Volunteers of Art-yama cleaned up Oiso Beach in the rain.
Though it was raining since morning, but about 30 volunteers worked hard for 2 hours cleaning up the beach.
Ms. Azusa Kojima in from the Japan Environmental Action Network came to help us.
We found much driftwood on the beach.
Some were even from overseas.
After we cleaned up the beach, we had BBQ at Art-yama ,
Then Ms. Azusa talked about environmental preservation and how it affected the beaches.
and showed us some pictures and a video to emphasis her point..
From the morning’s work at the Oiso Beach and from listening to Ms. Azusa ,
I thought we should throw garbage into trash cans, and not into the sea.
In order to protect Earth’s environment.



□June 12, 2005(Sunday)
1,Lecture by Prof. Akira Mochizuki
Prof. Mochizuki, who is a specialist of landscape design, and who has a lot of experience traveling, studying, and working overseas, talked about landscape design.
The lecture was not only about gardening but also about current topics.
We enjoyed it very much.
2, Singing songs
We selected some songs from a list of songs and requested them.
There are sweet voices, big voices, husky voices,off-tone voices, but they harmonized beautifully.
All of the songs were our favorites that we had sung where we were young.
Our hearts seemed to be getting younger as we sang.



□April 20, 2005(Wednesday)
The ceramic exhibition was held today.
The ceramic artist, Noriyuki Tanaka & his wife Keiko drove from Kagoshim to Awaji.
It was raining today but many people came to see the exhibition.
Their works are like European ceramic and are fascinating.



□March 29, 2005(Tuesday)
The bird (woodpecker) is perched on tree along the footpath.
When it pecks at the bugs, it makes a sound that goes “Kotsu, Kotsu, Kotsu.”



□March 10, 2005(Thursday)
It’s getting warmer day by day. Spring has come.
A lot of birds (Mejiro) are singing in the Plum tree which is in full-bloom.
NHK came to take video for their TV program.
It will be on NHK's "Weekend Information" on 11th March at 6:00 p.m.


NHK Video taping its Art-yama program

□February 13, 2005(Sunday)
A bird eating an orange.