スポーツ庁がスニーカー通勤を奨励していると聞きましたが、確かに通勤電車内にスニーカーを履いている人を多く見かけるようになりました。
さすがにまだスーツにスニーカー姿のビジネスマンは見ていませんが、小洒落た格好にスニーカーを履いた女性をよく見かけます。
で、ご紹介したいのは、スニーカーには全く関係無く、作品名が「NIKE」です。 恐らくナイキでは無く、ニケなのでしょう。
Recently, Japanese Government is encouraging business persons to wear sneakers and as a fact, you can bump into many of working persons wearing sneakers on trains.
As a matter of fact, you cannot easily encounter business suits workers with sneakers but there are many business women dressed neatly and enjoying their fancy sneakers.
What this blog is about has nothing to do with sport shoes, but what would like to write about is titled "NIKE" which probably has different pronounciating with the sport wear company.
こちらの銅像は新川の東京住友ツインビルの裏手の広場に置かれています。
This statue is placed at the backyard of Tokyo Smitomo Twin Building.
作者は朝倉響子さん、大隈重信像などの作品で著名な朝倉文夫さんのお嬢さんです。
谷中の朝倉彫塑館には何度か見学に行っていたので、近くにお嬢さんの作品を見れて個人的に嬉しかったです。表側にも「Summer」という作品がありますので、ご興味ある方は是非お散歩がてらにご鑑賞下さい。（涼しくなってから）
The sculpture is Kyoko Asakura, a daughter of Japanese great artist Fumio Asakura who is famous for "Shigenobu Okura" (statue) and others.
Visiting Asakura Sculpture Museum in Yanaka was just wonderful but seeing his daughter's masterpiece around the neighborhood was just delightful. On the other side of the building, there is also Kyoto Asakura's statue titled "Summer". If you are an art lover, maybe it is nice to include this spot in your walking course. (When the weather gets cooler)
