Guiding Researchers of Shonan Village around Kamakura

[Date & Time] January 14, Wednesday, 13:30-18:00
[Spots] Jomyoji Temple, Hokokuji Temple, Sugimotodera Temple and Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
[Visitors] 29 researchers from 13 countries: 4 each from Germany and Taiwan, 3 each from Italy and the US, 2 each from Australia and Canada, 1 each from China, Greece, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK, and 5 Japanese
[Attendants] 2 KSGG members
[Language] English

  After we explained about this tour as usual, we did picture-story show as we had made an arrangement beforehand.  We experienced tea ceremony at Jomyoji Temple which we visited first.  There we explained about the manners of tea ceremony.  What interested me most was the theme of their conference.  They said that they discuss what visualization is.  Among the researchers, a female Taiwanese researcher is very good at Japanese because she has been in Japan for four years.  As she loves research and reading, all that she can do is “to study.”  She said that she was not good at anything but study.  I realized that those people would decide the future of the world.  All the researchers were really well-organized people.  So nobody was late for the last meeting time, 18:00.  We said farewell with each other and our volunteer guiding was over.