08.04.07
More TV programs
Aug 4, 2007 Sat
There were two programs on TV today about Japan. The first on ewas the Lonely Planets Ian travelling to Tokyo, Akita, and Aomori. The second was Nousevan Auringon Kajo, a Finnish made show whose name is a pun: “Nousevan auringon” means “of the rising sun” and Kajo is the name of the presenter, but it also means “dawn”. The name of the program is thus “The dawn of the rising sun”. In Japanese it would make: ææ„æ [kyokujitsu akatsuki] or ææ [asahi akatsuki] This time the presenter visited makakis bathing in a hot spring, an onsien telling the spectators that 42 Centigrades is too hot for him even as a Finn used to the sauna, and then he visited a kimono store and got a pretty good idea about the work put into the making of a kimono, and also kitsuke, donning the kimono. To his honor, I must say, the facts and names were so much more accurate than in the Lonely Planet program.
