Opportunity for the gold panning

The oportunity of gold panning is when I read two books.
Books are” Gold panning in Hokkaido” by Kimio Kato and “Legend of gold panning” by Toyo Waki in the 1970s.

I was interested that the roman still exists in Japan.

I could not get the information for gold panning on the Internet because there was no computer.

I saw the article of production data in each river at the National Diet Library.

Production was very small. It became one of the reasons that there is no interest in gold panning.

author Kimio Kato” Gold panning in Hokkaido

author Toyo Waki “Legend of gold panning”

Sayuri Yoshinaga and "The dream at any time”

Mrs. Sayuri Yoshinaga is the most famous singer and actress in Japan.
In the 1960s, the song and the movie of "The dream at any time" had become a hot topic.

I prefer her recent than her old.

If she says "Have a dream at any time" to me, my chest will flutter (heart rate increases).
However, it becomes "everything are dream" for old man.

I have not good hobby and dreams now.

Recent my hobby is trip and gold panning, it is far from the dream that youth have.
When it comes to the elderly, the borderline of this world and the other world is unclear, I feel like a dream for the things and events.

     Colored paper that Sayuri Yoshinaga wrote

      

HATSUYUME（Year's first dream）

In Japan, when you see the dream in the three days of the New Year, there is a superstition that luck visits in that year. There is rank of the dream, the first is “Mt. Fuji”, the second is “Taka(Hawk)”, and the third is “Nasubi(Eggplant)”. I have never seen that dream unfortunately.

I have decided to use the photo of Mt. Fuji for the New Year's card from about 10 years ago.  The reason for using the photo of Mt. Fuji is that I’m very busy in December for agriculture, so I can’t write a comment in the New Year's card. If I send a photo of Mt. Fuji with no comment, I hope that my friends will be satisfied.

I decorate sometimes a "hanging scroll with hawk" that I received from relative. This is not something by famous painter, but we like it so bitter old.

Tea ceremony teacher give me the "candied eggplant" every year.

Since three things (1Fuji, 2Taka, 3Nasubi) are aligned, I wish safety and good luck for the people about the gold panning.

New Year's card

Old hanging scroll with hawk

Candied eggplant

Introduction

I am Japanese. Recently, I am looking forward to the journey and the gold panning.
In the old days of Japan, workers could not get a long term vacation. It is a rarely be able to go to foreign travel.
I was interested in the gold panning since the 1970s, but the opportunity was not visited until the old man.
I recently can obtain much information on the Internet. It is trying to realize the dream of long years.
I'm trying to write about the journey on gold panning and the information on gold panning in Japan.
In Japan, there is a proverb of the “TENARAI(to learn new things) from the age of 50 ”.  But, I will challenge to write this blog of English from the 70 years old.

Placer gold collected in Hokkaido