Today the winter sky is spreading～☁ I tried making amazake. It warms my stomach. The other day, the supermarket was selling sake lees from this year's local sake, which were only available for a limited time, so I suddenly wanted to drink amazake, which I rarely drink. I hardly drink sake either, but it's delicious and nutritious, even though it's made from rice lees. Sake is made from squeezed rice, so it's quite a luxury item. I wondered about its nutritional value, and when I googled it, I found out that it's so nutritious that it's called a "drinkable IV drip"! "It contains a wide variety of vitamins, including sugars, amino acids, and B vitamins." I didn't know that, I want to drink it every day! By the way, are there any copies of Emile Gallé and Tiffany lamps, which are known for their glass crafts? Euro Glass Crafts, which produces these, is located in Dalian, where the South Manchuria Railway was located, and I learned that the name comes from the fact that the silica stone used for glass was mined there, and that a factory was established during the Japanese era in the Manchuria period, and the technology was also transplanted. Baccarat is known for its luxury products such as drinking glasses, but there is a Baccarat factory near Nancy in the Lorraine region of France. There is a statue of King Stanislas in the Place des Ouverds. Facing the Place de Stanislas is the Nancy Museum of Fine Arts, and in the basement, there are a ton of amazing works by Gallé and dome vases, which surprised me. @I wanted one of them Unfortunately, I can't find the treasure SD card with this image on it, but they were all wonderful, with beautiful Art Nouveau designs of animals, flowers, shells, and plants. @By the way, I happened to see a story on YouTube a while ago about going to a geology university in Nancy. It may be the Nancy National School of Mines, a Grande Ecole. The Nancy Museum of Fine Arts is said to have been the site of an ancient fortress, and the remains of the fortress are on display in the basement. The 18th century King Stanislas, famous for Place Stanislas, was also the former king of Poland, and held the position of king of Lorraine. When Stanislas died in 1766, it was annexed to the Kingdom of France. The husband of Empress Maria Theresa of the Austrian-Habsburg Empire, Stephen, the First King of France of the Holy Roman Empire, was from the Duchy of Lorraine. Speaking of the later Habsburgs, Mitsuko Aoyama, who looks very similar to Nabeshima Itsuko, the daughter of Nabeshima Naohiro of the Nabeshima clan, married into the Coudenhove-Kalergi family, the noble family closest to the Habsburgs. PS: Aoyama Kihachi, an antiques dealer who is said to be Aoyama Mitsuko's father, was from Saga Karatsu. @Maybe Sasaki Shintaro, who was from Karatsu, and Aoyama Kihachi were acquaintances. Sasaki Shintaro of Sasaki Shokai (Sasaki Shade) is from Karatsu, Saga. The Nabeshima Domain is in Saga, so perhaps he was from that domain. In Nancy, there is a museum on the opposite side of the station from the Nancy Museum, which I visited. It was a mansion where the Nancy School of Art Nouveau artists honed their skills. Nancy, a city in northern France, was also the birthplace of the Daum brothers and Emile Gallé, so although it's a bit of a jump, it seems likely that the glass factories in Nancy, France, and Dalian, China, which Sasaki Shokai was involved with, and Euro Glass Crafts, which produces Gallé-style glass works, had some kind of connection. Could it be that this is similar to the process that occurred when Chinese people who made branded leather bags in Milan returned to their home countries and made copies? I don't think it would be easy to imitate them, since they are engineers. About Nancy "Glass crafts have been popular since the 15th century, but in the late 19th century, the steel industry flourished, and a new middle class emerged. The rapid population increase from the 1870s to the 1900s caused the urbanization of Nancy to proceed in a disorderly manner. The Lorraine Crafts Company, founded in 1894, was a group of artists who later became the Nancy School, including Emile Gallé, Antonin Daume, Louis Majoreur, Victor Bleuvet, and Eugène Warin. In 1988, Pope John Paul II visited Nancy. ”