今日、倉賀野神社は秋の例大祭

　今日１０月１９日は私の地元の倉賀野神社が「秋の例大祭」で、巫女の舞が披露されたり、神輿が街中に繰り出し、一日中、神社を参りする町民で賑わいます。

　ところで、今日の群馬県の日の出は５時５４分で、日の入りは１７時０７分です。しかし、群馬県の西部は山岳地帯ですから、実際には４時４５分頃には陽が沈みます。このため、今後は益々「つるべ落とし」になります。

　調べてみると、南の宮古島では日の出が６時３８分で、日の入りが１８時０９分であり、北の稚内市では日の出が５時５４分で、日の入りが１６時４２分です。「あれっ!」と思いましたが、群馬県と稚内市では日の出時刻が同じです。この原因は日の出の太陽の位置が東南東に移動したからです。

　庭の樹木も紅葉と落葉が始まってます。秋はますます深まり、屋外の散策を通して自然との対話には最も良い季節です。人生１００年時代に突入し、私は今日もしっかり身体を動かします。

Dear my overseas friends

　The simultaneous interpretation for you will be later, because from now on I will participate to the radio gymnastics held at the park and take a breakfast. Then I'll interpret into English for your understanding above mentioned contents.

　Today, October 19th, the "Autumn Festival" will be held at my local Kuragano-Shrine, where shrine maiden dance will be performed, and mikoshi (portable shrine) will be carried around the town, and the shrine will be crowded with townspeople visiting the shrine all day long.

　Not change the subject, but, today's sunrise in my Gumma Prefecture is 5:54 and sunset is 17:07. However, as you know, since the western part of Gumma Prefecture is a mountainous area, so that the sun actually sets around 4:45. For this reason, it will become more and more of a Tsurube Otoshi" that means the autumn sun sets really fast like a well bucket in Edo-period.

　When I looked it up and found that in Miyako-island in the southwest in Japan, today's sun rises at 6:38 and sunset at 18:09, at the same time, in Wakkanai-City in the Hokkaido, the sun rises at 5:54 and sunset is at 16:42. "Oh!" I discovered that the sunrise time is the same in Gumma Prefecture and Wakkanai-City. This is because the position of the sunrise has moved to the east-southeast.

　The trees in the garden are starting to turn red and fall. As autumn deepens, it's the best season to commune with nature through a walk outdoors. As we entered the era of 100-year lifespans, I will continue to move the body and train the brain to avoid senile dementia by memorizing English words which are used in daily life in US.

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