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The Keio University is located at only ten minutes walk from my home. But I have had no chance for visiting the university although I have been here for more than sixty years. Today it was open to pubic as "Mita Festival"(orgniazed by the students) was held at the university. So I went threre to see it.。
The place is narrower than imagined. The university has developed a few new campuses in Hiyoshi or in Fujisawa outside Mita in order to have new faculties or just to meet the increase of number of students. I could today understand why they did so.
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On the top of the so-called Mita hill, there is a small plaza. At its center, a big ginkgow tree has been grown. Its yellow colored leaves were very beautiful. Four storied class room buildings surrounded the plaza. Every one of them seemed to be built after the war. No old building remained.
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Students built tent shops inside the plaza, selling takoyaki(baked octopus,) yaki-soba (grilled noodles with vegetables,) yaki-mochi (toasted rice cake,) baked sauage, coffee and other drinks. They are trying to get operating funds of their clubs. They made every effort to promote the sales of their products with creative ideas.
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Members of comic story tellers club, wearing kimono, guided me to their temporaty theater built on a class room. Their plays were good, but the finely desigend stage settings were execellent.
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There was a student who wished to become a professional disc jokky. At a piano cafe, I could listen to a wonderful piano music.
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The exercise match of Karate clubs drew many spectators. The entrance arch made of red brciks was built recently on Mita street. It is to reproduce the images of olde universituy building.which was burned down by airiaids.
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Ths students were frank and bright. They seems to be easy to talk to. This is one of the spcialitie of them. No signs calling for oppostion to the establishment were found.
In evening, I went to a subscription concert of NHK Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Nello Santi conducted the orchestra with Ms. Adriana Marfis, soprano, and Mr. Giorgio Cebrian, bariton. The concert was named as "Verdi Evening." I liked the bariton.