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  • REPORTERMegumi Ota

I’m a conservator and preservationist living in Portugal. I specialize primarily in paintings (murals) and gold leaf design, and am involved with UNESCO World Heritage structures as well as the interior of the Palace of Belém. I derive great satisfaction from having close ties to my community in the rural village near the Silver Coast where I live. My hobby is gardening.

  • Portugal Santo_isidoro
  • Megumi Ota
  • 2018.03.23
  • Sculpture Preservation and Restoration 2
  • I wrote in a previous blog about restoring sculptures in Igreja Martiz de Arcos de Valdevez, a church in Portugal's north. In this blog, I'd like to carry on with that story, this time starting with the actual cleaning of the sculptures.
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  • 2018.01.05
  • Harvest festival
  • Beaujolais Nouveau Day—the day the new crop of Beaujolais goes on sale—made headlines as a big event even in Japan this year. The entire country of Portugal was also celebrating the (grape) harvest around the same time.
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  • 2017.12.17
  • Places full of books
  • When it gets to be early summer in Portugal, different parts of the country start hosting book fairs. They typically involve street stalls lined up in a big park, but you’ll sometimes see them set up a massive white tent right along the shoreline.
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  • 2017.11.15
  • Halloween in Portugal
  • November 1 is a festival day called Dia de Todos-os-Santos. Although the literal translation of Dia de Todos-os-Santos is “All Saints Day,” it’s not a day for the saints but a day to pray for the faithful who have passed away. Or perhaps calling it by the Japanese name “Obon,” or even “Halloween” makes it easier to understand.
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  • 2017.10.20
  • Basic Income
  • Last week the 17th BIEN Congress was held at the Assembly of the Republic in Lisbon. “BIEN” stands for Basic Income Earth Network, a group that researches and promotes the idea of a basic income.
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  • 2017.09.19
  • A Cup of Coffee
  • If you order café (coffee) in Portugal, you will receive what is called espresso coffee in Japan.It costs no more than 100 yen, and swallowing the fragrant dark brown liquid in one gulp kicks off your day.
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  • 2017.09.05
  • We have snails today!
  • During the late spring and early summer, you start to see signs posted at the entrance to cafés or on the counter next to the coffee machines. They’re just regular letter-sized pieces of paper with the phrase “Há Caracois!” written on them. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a drawing of a snail. The signs are saying that the café has snails available.
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  • 2017.06.14
  • The Miracle of Fátima
  • May 13 of this year marked the hundredth anniversaries of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima. To celebrate, Pope Francis journeyed all the way from Rome to the Sanctuary of Fátima to offer his prayers.
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