Year of the Fire Horse 2026 and the autumnal equinox: Higan-e Ceremony in Nichiren Shoshu

 Enjoy my video of the Year of the Fire Horse and learn about the traditional Higan-e Ceremony that happens every autumnal equinox in Nichiren Shoshu.

 Year of the Fire Horse

The Higan-e Ceremony

Offering memorial prayers 

 

 

 

Music from Clamp: Card Captor Sakura & Tsubasa Chronicle Tokyo Revelation

 

Multidimensional Princess Sakura and

Captor Sakura. Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations by Clamp

Card Captor Sakura: Honey by Chihiro

Tsubasa Chronicle Tokyo Revelation:

Synchronicity by Yui Makino

Video 1

Video 2

Clamp-net official website 

Science Fiction Novels in Amazon Kindle: Mysterious Adventures Across the Universe

 

My three novels about life in the Universe

 Amazon Kindle

The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets (2014)

Seven Stars City (2018)

Future Earth (2019) 

Discover more in my YouTube channel

 

Cosmic Songs for Summer 2026: Daft Punk, Resident Evil and Final Fantasy

 Enjoy my selection of the best cosmic songs for summer 2026.

One More Time Daft Punk 2001

To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) Nobuo Uematsu 2001

One Love (Resident Evil: Extinction) Aiden 2007 

 

Summer Reading Challenge: Science Fiction and Fantasy Ebook Novels in Amazon Kindle

 

 Enjoy my new video of the year of the Fire Horse 2026

and try out my eBook science fiction novels.

Year of the Fire Horse 2026 Gosho Selection

by Nichiren Daishonin

My three novels about life in the Universe

 Amazon Kindle

The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets (2014)

Seven Stars City (2018)

Future Earth (2019) 

 

Ancient Egypt: Yu-Gi-Oh and the Grand Egyptian Museum

 

For visitors dreaming with GEM, the new Grand Egyptian Museum, I decided to share a new video from Yu-Gi-Oh. Kazuki Takahashi: October 4, 1961 – July 4, 2022 Yu-Gi-Oh! Some religions like Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism believe in reincarnation while others in the afterlife. Online fanart of Takahashi’s masterpiece.  

Blue-Eyes White Dragon (2026)

The Grand Egyptian Museum

Inuyasha & The Strawberry Moon

On June 29 there will be a full Strawberry moon so it will be awesome to see it with the best Inuyasha movies and songs.

Affections Touching Across Time (2001)
The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)
Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003)
Fire on the Mystic Island (2004) 

My Will by Dream

Dearest by Ayumi Hamasaki

Review of Spooky Graded Readers: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Short Ghost Stories

To begin with, these two spooky graded readers is one of the best ways to learn and improve your English level while becoming familiarized with traditional ghost stories from the United States and England.

The first one, published by Oxford Bookworms Library, is a collection of the best tales from the American author Edgar Allan Poe. The best stories are The Black Cat and The Masque of the Red Death. The Black Cat denounces the problem of alcoholism and animal rights with the black cat being a powerful ghost to denounce the evil truth. Then, the Masque of the Red Death is relevant nowadays after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the book could have more reading activities and some famous works like the Raven should have been included.

Moving on, Penguin Readers with the book The Man with Two Shadows and Other Ghost Stories is entertaining and provides students with useful vocabulary and functional language. All ghost stories have a mysterious and surprising ending, however, from my opinion, the best ones are The Ghost Detective by Mark Lemon, 1866, and The Ghost in the Bank of England by an Anonymous writer, 1879. The Ghost Detective presents an interesting concept of ghosts living in portraits that can give signals to denounce a murder while the Ghost in the Bank of England shows the popular superstition of lucky and unlucky desks in a workplace.

Finally, the best thing about the two spooky graded readers is the wonderful illustrations drawn with classic pen-and-ink shading techniques like stippling and hatching. Moreover, the activities may be repetitive but is a good way to learn specific vocabulary and how to find and understand the main ideas and details in the stories.