The beautiful Sakura blossom just finished. One of the most beautiful phenomenon about sakura blossom is to see how the petals drop. It’s one of the romantic scenes you will see over and over in many Japanese films, dramas and manga.
Here are some of my sakura petal “snow” pictures:
Here you can see the petals falling. But this picture is MUCH better
On of the last pictures before the end.
Kongogumi was founded in 578 and it’s considered as the oldest company that has been always active since the beginning. I’m sure the people who founded this company did not write a business plan, or maybe they did and they wrote that they needed website. Right now they have a cool website, but they continue doing exactly what they started doing more than 1.000 years ago, they build temples, shrines and castles. For example, they built the Osaka castle.
The company was founded buy the Kongo family, and until the year 2006 it was still controlled by the Kongo family descendants. In 2006 they had some difficulties and they were adquired by Takamatsu corporation. Nowadays, it survives as a company inside the corporation.
The first temple built by Kongogumi is the Shitennō-ji, and you can visit it here (Walking distance Tennoji station in Osaka).
There are many temples built by Kongogumi in Takao.
I wonder which companies that we are used to nowadays will be still alife in 1.000 or 2.000 years. Construction? Energy? Telecommunications? Porn? Health? Spam?
I found this interesting magazine ad at DC News. It’s one of the first pocket calculators that where sold in Japan. It was made by Sharp and it cost 84,800 yen!, nowadays that would be around 800$
Have you ever used one of these? Why are some functions together in the same buttons?
Links about pocket calculators: