Digging for Clams		First Black Person in Japan
A Razor Clam		Atlantis
Edgar Cayce is true?		The Hell of Unzen
A Fishy Story		A Descent into the Maelstrom
Exodus 14		A joke in English class
The month of 7 in 1999		Edgar Cayce's 8 predictions

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There was a tidal mud flat In Ujina sea shore Still my parents had lived in that time To help family's finances Dishes to go with the rice I used to go digging for shellfish

At low tide, it is not keeping so long Everybody digs a small shell on the tidal flat With a plow of digging for clams As well as we can When the tide is in, it will be finish A harvest is about a small bucket Thus, my mom makes shell soup for some time

It is interested to dig a big shell Many holes on the tidal flat Unclear hole was covered by mud We have to find out that kind of holes Stick from the side by a rib of a coarse oil paper umbrella Come into being a hole on short notice Because of a feeler of the shell is pulling down at a surprise We dig that point rather deep Skillful guy takes many, but I am not good at that

This place was reclaimed a long time ago Big factory in Mazda automobile company now Young people impossible to know Once this place was a good tidal mud flat!

Itsuki Hiramatu June 5, 1999

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First black person in Japan The gun is handed down from Europe in 1543 Christian comes to Satsuma region in 1544 Francisco de Xavier is first missionary in Japan Luis Frois of a Jesuit comes in 1563 Alessandro Valignano who is a missionary of a Jesuit in Italy Comes to Japan as a tour of inspection in 1579 With together a black man as his follower A man of power in Japan who is Oda Nobunaga Oda Nobunaga gave a warm reception to the spread of Christianity He had stayed at Honnouji temple in Kyoto He received Valignano and a black man at February 23th in 1581 Oda Nobunaga was much surprised at see first a black man A follower black man is 27~28 years old He is sturdy so that his work of 10 men It is called an unprecedented person through all ages Oda Nobunaga don't easily believe that black person's skin color is nature Nobunaga thinks that is coated by black color So, made his upper body wash elaborately But so much so that washing his body It became more and more black Nobunaga was struck with admiration on this Then made him a round the city in Kyoto After this he is Nobunaga's favorite man Was named "Yasuke" Remain at Nobunaga's place He attended at the subjugation on Takada army also He is first black person in Japan

Itsuki Hiramatu June 6, 1999

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A razor clam When I did digging for shellfish To help for family's food

Someone said We can take a razor clam That where is close at Miyuki bridge The mouth of a river That river-bed was sandy flat

A razor clam likes this place When tide is going out Stand on the bottom of the river Search a hole of razor clam This hole blow water I pour into a hole a pinch of salt

It takes rather time I can't wait for Grow impatient so again Pure into a pinch of salt Thus I try for times A razor clam went out from his den I catch him

This hunting do not pay I brought a pack of salt From the kitchen in my house Confidentially with my mom Used up all of salt soon Somewhere around ten game That can't be a dish in supper

It might be interesting this method But I stopped taking a razor clam

Now this place is changed Reclaim the land and the pollution of the environment There is no room for a razor clam to live!

Itsuki Hiramatu June 6, 1999

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Traditional Atlantis Plato told There was a continent in Atlantic Ocean They had a high civilization All of a sudden a volcanic eruption Went under sea consequently

In this century Edgar Cayce who was a sleeping prophet Said about Atlantis in details According his reading The present day many American In the distant past Atlantis people was

A Scientist looks Santorini island in Greece Discovery of a prehistoric site A collapse by an earthquake Land slipped down under the sea Here is a very Atlantis

Recent a theory of plate tectonics The specific gravity of the land is small The continent float on a greater specific gravity earth So never sink down under the sea Cayce's reading go back against recent science

Thus I look This mystery Atlantis If Atlantis was there, Santorini island in Greece Not in the Atlantic ocean

Itsuki Hiramatu June 6, 1999

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Edgar Cayce (1877~1945) A famous psychical healer in America The state of things in trance Diagnose of illness with accuracy Gave a prescription on medical treatment About 30,000 of diagnosis while 43 years Cayce did clairvoyance of a patient's former life Also precognition He well deserved praise to do his unselfish life

I think he would be a nice man And many people was saved by his life reading I do not raise an objection on his deed

His all reading is done when he is sleeping What we call the condition of trance This point we must regard Which kind of sprit said by using his body? Earth bound sprit like to say such precognition or prophecy Some hit a point because this sort of spirit approach to the earth Though low level type spirit So that this spirit like to deceive the people

A prophecy in Edgar Cayce There is some doubt It is not agree with progressing of recent science Beside his prophecy was not right

A book wrote Edgar Cayce Which is interesting thing to read But I don't think he is true in all points!

Itsuki Hiramatu June 17, 1999

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The hell of Unzen I had stayed only a day at Unzen hot spring Where is 727m sea level above A zone of Unzen volcanos It is popular hot spring spot in Japan There are many hotels and Japanese inns Near the hotel there is "jigoku" means "hell" The hell is a source of hot spring I took a walk in this hell in the afternoon Walking a narrow path around the steam The stench from the sulfur assailed my nostrils Boiling water gush out from under the earth Here is a sightseeing spot in Unzen But there are some sad story

Japanese king Hideyoshi begun to persecute Christianity since 1587 At first 26 number of priests and believers was crucified at Nagasaki In every where Many Christians is driven home away, get tortured and massacred A magistrate Takenaka in Nagasaki tried to make his/her believe throw away To break believer's sprit But he knew that is impossible to make Father and followers resolution change By dint of alone the word Then he resolute to take another measure That is to torture them by boiling water in Unzen hell

A suggestion on this torture is Simabara lord Matukura Unzen hell's boiling water burned the skin of Christian in 1627 Paul Utibori and others 16 include females and children was killed By get boiled sulfuric spring thrown over People prays aloud and sung a hymn A public servant put a gag in their mouth Killed them press down in hot water

Why the Tokugawa shogunate gave a torture to Christians Its main purpose is to conversion than to kill In the first to turn his/her believe If they did not turned Christian they took a way to death

A magistrate Takenaka brought Christians to Unzen from Nagasaki in 1629 The first victims was 64 who among them was 27 females A believer was stripped and was bound with both hand, both legs Was poured on his/her back with boiled water According Augustinian padre whom got this torture in 1631 "Sulfuric hot water is terrible boiling, jetting out the smell like a cheese When that hot water poured, the flesh melt, soon enough the bone exposed In case of a spray of boiled water splashed again To the extent of the bone was missing to melt" It is said to protract the pain, treat a sore wound, if get well so tortured again The people was taken here Renounce his/her faith was about 60, martyrs was 33 Unzen hell is going on emit a steam or hot spring as it used to

Itsuki Hiramatu June 17, 1999

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Mrs. Imazu was my class teacher As I was four grade She was a talkative teacher It was very fun of things than a lesson There was an unforgettable story That was her experience When she was a grade school

She had lived one of island in the Seto Inland Sea In summer time she walked in the small hill with her friend The hill with grove was near the seashore Suddenly a snake appears She is afraid of a snake so that hide behind the rock with her friend A snake crawl down to the beach from the land There was an octopus in the beach A snake confront with an octopus Glare at each other for a moment She was looking the state of affaires from behind the rock By and by an octopus lost his power So a snake winds itself around the body of an octopus Put the power to squeeze The game is over But surprisingly Next time an octopus spread out his 8 legs by his strength In an instant, snake's body was broken into pieces About one inch pieces An octopus raked up together pieces of a snake Hold in his 8 legs So turned back into the sea

She and her friend looked at all the details by the wonderment Next day in the school She and her friend told about that to their teacher "You are very happy to see such a novel thing!" Their teacher said with admiration

It sometimes happens like that Anyway my class teacher said that story When that time I was a child I had not any doubt so far But it is a fishy story! Mrs. Imazu made a fairy story

Itsuki Hiramatu June 21, 1999

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A Descent into the Maelstrom I read this at library in my junior high school Author is Edgar Allan Poe This story is best of my exciting ones I remember to read this book without knowing what I am doing I was young boy So it was fascinated very much feel with thrilling It is like a S.F. story A hero got involved in a huge whirlpool at the near seas in Norway Last he has the sense to do so that escape death But his brother died

I told this story to playmates in the neighborhood They are admiring with my tale about "A descent into the Maelstrom" It sure they felt some thrilling to hear my tale One of them read that book in the library after that He said to me that my first story is more impact than reading a real novel I was pleased about his said "Oh! I am a good story teller" By the way, that subject was translated "A whirlpool of Mosken" at that time

Itsuki Hiramatu June 23, 1999

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Exodus 14 21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 27 So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the Lord routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.

This is an impressive scene of the movie "The Ten Commandments." This is a miracle. If this is a fact, some scholars says many their ideas I happened to know one of guessing When Exodus time, that a legend Continent of Atlantis fit together! Atlantis is said that where is Santorini island in Greece It was sunk down into the sea caused by big explosion of volcanic activity In exact time The Mediterranean Sea runs dry momentarily That is so very good timing that Moses could pass through the sea After that overflow sea water flows backward That is so very bad timing that Pharaoh army was drown to death

I want to support this hypothesis It is a very coincidence to success of Exodus

Itsuki Hiramatu June 24, 1999

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That was a class to prepare for an examination English teacher was a senior Formal and a little serious English of examination is not fun Every student in the class hear their teacher's lesson Nobody question It is not need to do so Though, this teacher said a joke

Japanese man is a good speaker He is a small guy He meets with an American guy American is a tall man American sees below on him "Are you a Japanese?" "Chinese?" "Or Sudanese?" Sudanese is native people in the Sudan in Africa And Japanese said back to American "Are you a Yankee?" "Monkey?" "Or Donkey?" A teacher spoke the pronunciation with uplift so that All of the students burst out laughing Then a teacher is end to this joke "American admired who was a good English speaker"

In a moment a class begins study They have the university entrance examination later By the way, is this joke fun of for American?

Itsuki Hiramatu June 27, 1999

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His real name is Michahael De Nostradame (1503~1566) in France. I watched a TV program "Nostradamus" yesterday. Nostradamus-researchers in Japan discussed in the program. A subject for discussion was the month of 7 in 1999 "Armageddon." Somehow, July means August in a calendar in those days. There are some 160 books, which has written on Nosradamus in Japan. Every book insists their opinion. At the beginning a third person attend in this program was questioned by MC "Do you believe Nostradumus? And if you have a plan to travel, do you stop that between (July ~ November)?" "Yes" was 12/50 members. After Nostadamus-researchers discussion, it is some ridiculous talk. Finally check again decrease into 5/50. Anyway we reached to a conclusion on a prophet Nostradamus. I will look on calmly. The month of 7~8 (July ~ August).

Itsuki Hiramatu June 29, 1999

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A sleeping prophet Edgar Cayce He is called that a biggest prophet in this century His physical reading treats many kinds of sick That Cayce also left some reading on eschatology Next item shows that sign till 1998 1 The devastated earth quake, tectonic movement happens in the west of America 2 The south of South Carolina and Georgia becomes extinct 3 All of the part of Japan go under the sea 4 The north of Europe die out in a moment 5 The water in the Five Lakes dry up 6 The new earth is lift up every direction in Atlantic ocean 7 Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York is wiped out To compare with Nosradamus, it is rather concrete But these prophecies is still not done Cayce foretells these symptoms will be developing till 1998 He does not say that will be completed till 1998 However it seems to me an ambiguous prediction I did not hear any sign about these symptoms so far So, I don't think Edgar Cayce is qualified for a prophet in this century

Itsuki Hiramatu June 30, 1999

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