The first hockey game I saw

I watched my first hockey game.

It was the Toronto Marlies vs. the Utica Comets. THe Marlies are an American Hockey League team, not the highest league, NHL, but the level is still high. The venue was the Ricoh Coliseum —I mistakenly went the Air Canada Centre five minutes before the game began, so I saw the game from the middle. There were a lot of audience members wearing uniforms, snack shops, and hockey item shops. I felt like "that's the very hockey venue!".

I was not sure about hockey and the Toronto Marlies, so I mistook the Comets for the Marlies because, despite the fact that the symbol for the Marlies was mainly blue, their uniforms were white, and the opponents' were blue. It was a little confusing. Firstly, I was clapping for the Comets scoring. After that, I noticed because the white guys scored and the audience got excited and shouted. So embarrassed.

It was a close game, the Marlies were behind, one to three in the second period but they caught up to them, four to four! But eventually, the Marlies fell. Anyway it was fun, and it can't be seen in Japan.

Thank you Matthew.wedgeroberts, James.

I like dissonant chords

I don't really know much  about music, but I know what music I like.
I like dissonant chords.
Of course I listen to not only music that has dissonance, but also rock, pop, electric and etc.
I don't know why but I get excited when the dissonant chord appears in harmony. I really like orchestra tuning sound before they start to play. I feel tense and peculiar peacefulness simultaneously. Three weeks ago, the concert I saw had accordion and a traditional Korean reed instrument. The traditional instrument played sine-wave-like high-pitched and hard tune. The tune was mixed with accordion sound into dissonance, it made the atmosphere tense. I didn't think an acoustic instrument would make such a sine-wave-like sound. I believe it's awesome but I usually have hard time to explaining it at the spur of the moment. I wrote this post to explain better.

Toronto's library has a wide variety of genre of CDs. I borrowed some Godspeed You! Black Emperor CDs I haven't listened to. It's understandable that Godspeed is a Canadian band, but I can't believe that a library has the genres "ambient" "avant-garde" and "improvisation".  That's too excellent! Recently, I've borrowed CDs  impromptu among the avant-garde genre. I found some cool musician I wouldn't have known, such as Julia Kent, Kardemimmit, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Tim hecker, and so on..

Thanks, Twist, Skiesoforange

I informed an error in a Ukiyo-e description to the library

I tried to inform the library of an error in the gallery regarding the description on Ukiyo-e. (http://tanakasan-ningen.blogspot.ca/2016/02/mistakes-in-gallerys-description.html)
Thanks to Coolguy's correction, from Lang-8, I easily explained the error to them.
The librarian coped took my advice sincerely.
I'm glad that my knowledge of ancient Japanese letters (it's usually useless) helps with something.

Thank you, RRWcomicsboy, Caramelbelle, Twist and Madox.

Mistakes in the Ukiyo-e description?

This post is related to my previous post, “A to Z exhibition”.

In the gallery of Toronto Reference Library, I enjoyed seeing a small exhibition.

"K” was for Kabuki, Japanese a traditional play, and they showed Ukiyo-e print of Kabuki.

The print was set on “Chushingura”, which was the most popular play in Japan 300 years ago. The print depicted the scene in the story of attacking the villain’s mansion. However, what I was interested in the most was the description. I noticed the errors in it.

<The current description>

Kochosai, 1823-?

Wood block print

1868-1912

<Maybe it’s correct>

Kochoro a.k.a. Utagawa Kunisada, and Toyokuni III, 1786-1865

Wood block print

1890

The current description indicated the painter is Kochosai(1823-), and it was printed 1868-1912, but to my understanding, the signature in the print obviously describes that “it's printed on May 10th 1890. Kochoro drew this according to a request ". Kochoro is the Utagawa family’s successful Ukiyo-e painter, is also known as Kunisada, and Toyokuni III. He was born in 1786.

I guess the signature was written in old Japanese letters, so it couldn’t be easy to read.

I wish I could tell the fact to the library.

If you are interested, please see and compare with the third posted picture. (but it may be a little bit demanding even for Japanese people)

Thanks Coolguy!

"A to Z" Gallery in Toronto Reference Library

I saw an interesting exhibition in the small gallery in the Toronto Reference Library. They hold a small but pretty good exhibition regularly, previous theme was the popular picture book, "Where the Wild Things Are", so I pay attention to the gallery.

The theme this time is "A to Z". They showcase some books, photography or other cultural items from their collection that are associated with the letter "A to Z". For example, "A" is for arctic exploration, so they showed an antique arctic map and a photo of an icebreaker going on a frozen sea. Isn't it interesting? "D" for Dracula, they showed the first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It must be a precious thing. "M" for miniature, there were books and a bookshelf the size of a candy. What a variety of things the library has! What I was most interested in was "I" for incunabula. I didn't know that word, which means books printed in the first 50 years from the invention of the printing press (they are much older than Canada). It was not Gutenberg's printing, but it's definitely difficult see them in Japan. The description of the incunabula said the library has 20 of this kind of book. Despite the size of gallery, the exhibition is always well done.

Thank you for the correction, James.