Snapshot No. 775-779
779. Sakura castle bird-eye image
From a paper I got during the cherry blossom festival at the castle ruin square.
No mention of the writer.
Probably the city office asked someone to make this image by presenting the base materials.
The dotted line at the right edge is the present History Museum.
Image writer: not mentioned
The oote-mon (castle main gate) / picture copy
(once used in another part of this shot albums)
Time: Early Meidi era / Photo by Abe Tyutin
778. Fine weather tomorrow?
The usual bicycle path, at the noon time.
It is a pitty to have a series of rainy days during the cherry blossom period.
But, tomorrow, the weather looks to improve.
Met Agency Weather Chart / Asia-Pacific Region / 2025-04-03 09:00 (00:00 UTC)
777. Aesthetics and emergency communications
In the column weeks ago, I mentioned the trend of amateur radio antenna restriction in the area with underground distribution system because of the landscape aesthetic reason.
With the landscape in mind, below I lined up the antennas of my own and others nearby.
The center is my antenna of two years ago, intended for low key appearance.
(At present,I use another type with a horizontal element on the top. It could be seen obtrusive)
It is understandable, seeing these antennas, some raise their eyebrows. This is indeed annoying problem.
The reason I tried this is that I happened to see the [US Report] column by Ibata OM in the latest CQ Magazin April issue.
It reports:
that US Senators of both the Repubilican and Democrat jointly issued again a bill to both the upper and lower houses in order to prevent the HOA's arbitrary restriction of amateour radio antennas.
It will be the common understanding among those who are responsible to the national safety that the excessive prioritization of landscape aesthetics could harm the communication security at emergency situations.
One of the bill submitters, US Senator, Mr. R. Wicker's explantion to the bill is here.
The present internet is based on the gigantic infrastruture of tens and hundreds of billion dollars such as inland communication systems, data centers, sea cables, requiring enormous amount of electric power.
While, the amateur radio is surely an ultimate of anachronism, at this time.
HOWEVER, it can communicate with the other side of the globe by a 10-meter wire and the power of a light bulb.
(It is necessary to choose right time and right frequenciy, though. But this very nature too is defiitely attractive for us)
It is crystal clear, in the possible emergency situation at the devasting disaters, that simple contraption is much more robust than the complicated large system.
776. Ha-botan
Just before a ha-botan blooms.
It is customary that ha-botan are planted as an ornament for the new-year celebration, and that they are disposed of, when they extend the stems in spring.
If they are left without being disposed, they yield the flower buds, as in the photo, for the yellow flower, na-no-hana.
The na-no-hana turn to seeds. The fallen seeds sprout in the summer.
Thus, by just neglecting the custom to dispose them in the spring, we can observe the cycles of;
- In summer, the seeds sprout.
- During the winter including the new-year period, they keep round shape.
- Coming spring, they extend the stems, and make the flowers and seeds.
775. An owl-shape dogu (clay figurine)
A dogu I happened to see.
This is displayed in a glass case at the library beside Tega marsh,
and was originally found at a nearby shell mound,
The size is about one's palm.
Many of the dogu of Joumon-period make us wonder what it is for.
This is also one of such items.
Unless we know how the Joumon-period people see the nature and society in front of them, this will remain to be a mystery for ever.
Yet, seeing this design, I feel they had lived with much more generous-heart spirit than us today.
779. Sakura castle bird-eye image
From a paper I got during the cherry blossom festival at the castle ruin square.
No mention of the writer.Probably the city office asked someone to make this image by presenting the base materials.
The dotted line at the right edge is the present History Museum.
Image writer: not mentioned
The oote-mon (castle main gate) / picture copy(once used in another part of this shot albums)
Time: Early Meidi era / Photo by Abe Tyutin
778. Fine weather tomorrow?
The usual bicycle path, at the noon time.
It is a pitty to have a series of rainy days during the cherry blossom period.
But, tomorrow, the weather looks to improve.
Met Agency Weather Chart / Asia-Pacific Region / 2025-04-03 09:00 (00:00 UTC)
777. Aesthetics and emergency communications
In the column weeks ago, I mentioned the trend of amateur radio antenna restriction in the area with underground distribution system because of the landscape aesthetic reason.
With the landscape in mind, below I lined up the antennas of my own and others nearby.
The center is my antenna of two years ago, intended for low key appearance.
(At present,I use another type with a horizontal element on the top. It could be seen obtrusive)
It is understandable, seeing these antennas, some raise their eyebrows. This is indeed annoying problem.
The reason I tried this is that I happened to see the [US Report] column by Ibata OM in the latest CQ Magazin April issue.
It reports:
that US Senators of both the Repubilican and Democrat jointly issued again a bill to both the upper and lower houses in order to prevent the HOA's arbitrary restriction of amateour radio antennas.
It will be the common understanding among those who are responsible to the national safety that the excessive prioritization of landscape aesthetics could harm the communication security at emergency situations.
One of the bill submitters, US Senator, Mr. R. Wicker's explantion to the bill is here.
The present internet is based on the gigantic infrastruture of tens and hundreds of billion dollars such as inland communication systems, data centers, sea cables, requiring enormous amount of electric power.
While, the amateur radio is surely an ultimate of anachronism, at this time.
HOWEVER, it can communicate with the other side of the globe by a 10-meter wire and the power of a light bulb.
(It is necessary to choose right time and right frequenciy, though. But this very nature too is defiitely attractive for us)
It is crystal clear, in the possible emergency situation at the devasting disaters, that simple contraption is much more robust than the complicated large system.
776. Ha-botan
Just before a ha-botan blooms.It is customary that ha-botan are planted as an ornament for the new-year celebration, and that they are disposed of, when they extend the stems in spring.
If they are left without being disposed, they yield the flower buds, as in the photo, for the yellow flower, na-no-hana.
The na-no-hana turn to seeds. The fallen seeds sprout in the summer.
Thus, by just neglecting the custom to dispose them in the spring, we can observe the cycles of;
- In summer, the seeds sprout.
- During the winter including the new-year period, they keep round shape.
- Coming spring, they extend the stems, and make the flowers and seeds.
775. An owl-shape dogu (clay figurine)
A dogu I happened to see.
This is displayed in a glass case at the library beside Tega marsh,
and was originally found at a nearby shell mound,
The size is about one's palm.
Many of the dogu of Joumon-period make us wonder what it is for.
This is also one of such items.
Unless we know how the Joumon-period people see the nature and society in front of them, this will remain to be a mystery for ever.
Yet, seeing this design, I feel they had lived with much more generous-heart spirit than us today.
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