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31/08/2024

“Ukiyo-e”

Traditional Japanese art that originated in the 17th Century of Edo Period ✨

Until then art was something that was mainly inaccessible to the general citizens.
Only privileged and upper-class citizens could come into contact with such culture.

During Edo Period, the whole country became more stable. As a result, a larger group of people started enjoying art and paintings.

Ukiyo-e works are Japanese wood prints that often depict popular geisha, sumo wrestlers and Kabuki actors, beautiful landscapes like Mount Fuji, scenes from local folklore and more.

In this exhibition I went this time is a quite unique one💕

Ukiyo-e works are “moving”😆💕💕
I felt like I travelled back to the era and was listening the sound there and voice of the people in a very colorful world 🤩🤩❣️

Let’s enjoy art in Japan 👍👍👍‼️

29/08/2024

Jump in a water in the deep woods in Kagoshima ✨✨

This place is known by only locals and where you can enjoy pure and cold water from the mountains surrounding the area⛰️💕

See ! The colors of the water🤩🤩✨✨
Can’t help to jump in😂👍❣️

You want to expose yourself here??
Then, let me know😙👍

17/08/2024

“Sho-Ryo Nagashi (To-Ro Nagashi)”

In Japan, it’s believed that ancestors’ spirits come back to their descendants’ home for 3days in middle of summer.

There is a traditional custom on the very end of the three days.

That is “Sho-Ryo Nagashi (To-Ro Nagashi).”

This is a memorial service.
Paper lanterns which are carrying spirits of the dead are floating down a river to return to the other world.

Especially for a family who have lost their family member in the year, it becomes very special.

I was in Nagasaki the other day and found that Sho-Ryo Nagashi there is very spectacular.

Paper lanterns are ship-shaped with lots of decorations and much bigger than usual. The family carry and walk on a road (cars have to give way to them) to the sea.
While walking, they set off fire crackers, so the town is filled with very festive atmosphere.

According to locals, when it gets dark, many people get together and they form a big and long procession to a bay.

Depending on area, we can see various unique customs even in one country😊❣️

Very fascinating country, Japan 💖
Don’t you think so😆⁉️

08/07/2024

We did it 😆💕💕💕‼️

We completed the sea kayaking half marathon 🎉😆❣️

This challenge just came to my mind after watching this event last year, and has completed with lots of supports from our mentor Mr. Nomoto and important friends🥰

Being lucky with the weather, we really enjoyed the breathtaking views of the strait and nearby beaches, and locals’ heartwarming encouragement and hospitality💕

Are we joining this next year again????

WHY NOT😂👍❣️❣️
Maybe we’ll do it a little bit faster than this year😜😜

06/07/2024

(English follows Japanese)

加計呂麻シーカヤックマラソン初出場😆‼️‼️

この機会に初の🛳️旅〜
思ったよりも快適✨
背中に揺れを感じつつ、💤💤

奄美は既に、超夏夏夏☀️

日差しによって変わる海の色、どれもとってもキレイで深くて言葉を卓越してて💖

ちょっと🛶練習しただけで、下には息を呑む珊瑚の姿が✨
来るたびに、少し違う姿を見せてくれるビーチ💕魅了されます😍

いつもお邪魔するWesterner’s Cafeのカレー🍛食べながら、店主の老夫婦のお話聞くのも、なんだか嬉しい感じ❣️

知り合いのホテルオーナーに、「おかえり〜」って言われて、なんかニンマリ😁❣️

さ、明日の大会🛶、頑張るぞぉ😆‼️‼️‼️

I’m on Amami Oshima Island now🏝️
This time, I came here to join Sea Kayaking Marathon event try to complete around 11miles on Setouchi Strait.

It’s only 1 hour flight from Kagoshima Airport ✈️, but this time I took a ferry taking 11 hours😆❣️

The sea and the coral reefs here are breathtaking 💖Every time I come here, this island shows me something different views beyond the words.

My favorite aspect of this place is not only the view, but people.
There are several places I always visit and the people there always welcome me from bottom of the heart❤️

Tomorrow is the day of 🛶Event‼️
I’ll enjoy this occasion with my loved people 💖

02/07/2024

Temples(Wat), The Grand Palace and Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Bangkok 🇹🇭

Sorry for the late update 😂

The impression I got is locals’ life is going based on the rhythm of Buddism here.

Especially for male, they have a certain period they stay a temple and learn the teachings of Buddism at least one time in life.

I happened to observe the inauguration ceremony of a young boy. It’s a celebration so senior monks scattered many small wrapped coins to people who visited the temple. The concept is sharing good luck with others and this is also seen in Japan in other occasions.

I visited a museum of beautiful dresses 👗which were worn by King 9th’s wife. Those are made by beautiful traditional silk fabric and she has been trying to spread the fabric to the world 🌎 ✨

The next post is in Phuket 🏝️😊💕

25/06/2024

On the 1st day 🇹🇭

I took a private one day tour❣️
(Remember, this is a study tour for me as a guide😆❣️)

Using a chartered car, me and a local guide visited Kalong Saltfields, Maeklong Railroad Market and Damnoen Saduak Floating Market.

On the way to each destination, the guide explained many backgrounds of each aspect in Thailand including the origin of floating markets located various areas.

Most fascinating thing to me is the salt field.
It still uses very traditional methods of making salt from seawater and how to maintenance there. The methods cope with nature and the climate, which, I believe, had been developed taking long time by ancestors.💖

Visiting the railway market and the floating market are very fun, but little bit too touristic to me 😆

The guide was very attentive because it was really hot and humid 😊
Even I was not so hungry, he kept trying to feed me😂😂

Ok, this was the daytime trip on the 1st day in Bangkok.
Let me continue with the night food tour on the next post💕

10/06/2024

“Washi”
Japanese traditional paper

In Kagoshima, there is an artist of Washi.
She grows the raw material, paper mulberry, harvests, peels off the bark and makes Washi with it. Every step is done by her hand to make Washi.✨
The story hasn’t finished.😆
The beautiful works are also designed and made by her from scratch 💖

I believe that the manufacturing steps require force of body and massive concentration!
How does she create such beautiful artworks??
What made her to do this at the beginning???

If you also wonder as I did, you can find the answers in the movie on the YouTube 😊👇👇

https://youtu.be/Azkitm3vgrU?si=dhavlpe-205_kmYz

02/06/2024

“Ai Dyeing” - Japan Blue 🟦✨

“Indigo Dyeing” is more familiar to many people, but this dyeing has long history, more than 1500 years in Japan and it gets very difficult to see and experience very genuine traditional Ai Dyeing nowadays.

Ai was used as a medicine originally and has a function detoxification, alleviation of fever, antibacterial and good for insect bite.

The liquid Ai is made by actual living bacteria through natural fermentation.
So depends on the health conditions of the bacteria, the color is determined.

“Aizomeya” in Kagoshima is growing the Ai with no chemicals in 200 years old earthenware .(This is very rare!!!)

When I saw the Japan blue the bacteria created for me today, it’s amazing beautiful and deep 💖

You want to try to make it, too??
Please contact me😊
I’m very happy to help you to make it real❣️

01/06/2024

🌱Green Tea🍵

Do you drink green tea??

Yes, I do!
No, it’s too bitter for me.

This is the season to enjoy the fresh harvested green tea leaves 🍃

How does green tea grow and be harvested?
How to enjoy tasty green tea??

Check this movie !!
You can get to know the deep aspects of green tea and how to brew it with the conversation with a local tea farmer in Kagoshima, Japan 💕💕

https://youtu.be/E4n8Ru0uUdA?si=wjAn8tf4JRDtTHWt

18/05/2024

“Aku Maki” in Kagoshima, Japan

Have you seen this before??
This is a local confectionery made of rice.

This has a dark brown color comes from Aku, filtered water after mixed with ash of burnt wood 🪵.

Today, I joined a cooking class to make this in a very old and traditional Japanese wooden house.✨

How to make this is very unique.
1) rice is left in Aku for a while.
2) the rice is wrapped in a dried skin of bamboo.
3) it is cooked in a boiling water (Aku is added in the water) for 2 hours.

Using ash for foods sounds strange to many of you, I’m sure.
There are many local cookings which use ash or Aku.

Why did ash become to be used for cooking??
This is a food culture in areas where many evergreen forests are observed in Asia🌳.
It prevents the food from going bad quickly in a humid climate. Sometimes it reduce bad tastes, too.

Regarding Aku maki, this is a nostalgic food for many people.
It can be said this is the taste of grandma or grandpa’s handmade in spring time 😊💕

After the class, of course we cleaned the rooms, kitchen, and even window glasses 😆👍❣️
This is done for the people who are using there later on.

Aren’t you interested in cooking such local foods by yourself??
You can contact me if you are😊👍💕

18/05/2024

“Hannyaji Temple”

I came across a mystical moment 😆✨❣️

In Yusui town in the northern part of Kagoshima prefecture, there is an old temple which is said that the first place green tea trees arrived in Kagoshima in the 14th century.

I’ve heard the temple is not used anymore, but anyway I visited there to see the tree.

Then I found there were around 20 people and did something.

I approached them to see what they were doing, then one gentleman asked me to join their ceremony, which is a celebration for having a new year’s first green tea 🍵 from the green tea trees still growing there❣️

Before having a tea, all of us joined Goma Gyo, burning small pieces of holy [scented] wood before a Buddhist altar for spiritual purification.

Then, we had the green tea 🍵 together.

Then, this was happening ❣️❣️
A small stem of green tea leaf was standing in the tea‼️✨
This sounds very spiritual, but in Japan, it is said that when you find it in your tea cup, it means you have a good luck 💖

I felt something very powerful in my stomach 😆❣️
And happily back to home after that.

This was an unexpected encounter to me and an experience I felt something mysterious existing.

Visiting Kagoshima will provide you unforgettable experiences and memories, I’m sure😊👍💕

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18/05/2024

“Special Experience of Making your own cut glass”

Senganen in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan offers you a very special experience you can do only here.

“Satsuma Cut Glass💖”

I had a group from UK and they enjoyed making it by themselves.

It looks very difficult to make a pattern on the glass by curving it with a diamond wheel.
But real craftsman assisted them very well and they did it great in the end!!!

They named their own artworks as “Big Bang” and “Glorious Bottom” because of the pattern they made on the bottom of the glasses 😂👍💕💕

A great time and a magnificent view with very fascinating stories of the place are waiting for you 😊❣️

31/03/2024

in Yusui, Kagoshima 🌸

People are having the beauty of new life of nature💕

I also enjoy the energy of flowers and local people, and no need to tell, but tasty foods😆👍❣️❣️

The air of spring gives us happiness very much😊🙏🌸

I checked my health conditions (it’s for free!) and found I need to eat more vegetables 😅😅😅🥬🍅

Good to know😙👍

15/03/2024

This week is the beginning of high season of cruise ships🛳️

I had wonderful guests from U.S. 5 days this week and went here and there in Kagoshima❣️

We talked a lot and shared many stories each other. My guests experienced various things which are unique to Kagoshima, and they said they liked the experiences and became to love Kagoshima 😆💕

The words made me smile and I’m very happy with it😍

This season is going to be very hectic.
I’m very excited to have more guests from around the world 🌎❣️

04/03/2024

“A detective 🕵️, Miki😆👍👍👍”

It’s a day today I made two researches for my guests to find special spots they really want to go when they visit Kagoshima 😊

The names of the places were not cleared, because one was deeply buried in the memory, and the other was unknown and I just got some information about it from my guest.🔍

Thanks to my friend and local people, I believe I came very close to the goals, but there are still many remaining to be done.

I love solving mysteries 😆❣️
My detective work to be continued…😘

04/03/2024

✨Ramen 🍜✨

Ramen shop “RIKI” in Kagoshima ❣️

It won the 8th prize 🏆 in the competition to decide King of Ramen in 2024 in Kagoshima 💖

Yuzu flavor makes this ramen very special 👍✨

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26/02/2024

“Japanese Dance and Tea Ceremony “ experience in Kagoshima

Geisha? No.😊
Matcha tea ceremony? No.😆

This is a traditional education system in Kagoshima started in Samurai era and still carried out in one area.

During the era, there’s a very unique education system in which little kids (over 6 years old) learned from seniors (16-25years old) about various kinds of subjects not only reading and writing but also martial arts, trouble solutions, debating, Confucianism, ethics and so on. But this was only for boys. (Please understand that this happened during the feudal era, not now)
There was a similar education system for girls and this is the one I visited today. (Today, this is conducted as an additional education by private sector other than compulsory education system)

They showed me green tea ceremony, Japanese dance and playing Japanese instruments. They learn these as sophisticated arts. It looks like Geisha’s performance, but actually it’s not. They don’t serve sake or any alcoholic drinks to their audience. Their talking is also very fun, entertaining and sometimes reaches to very deep history in Kagoshima that got me to think how amazing our ancestors’ knowledge and wisdom, and what we have to hand down to the next generation.

If you are interested in genuine local stories and traditional experiences, this is the one you should visit.

They are “Sumiyoshi Shachu” in Kagoshima.
This experience is conducted in Japanese (Kagoshima dialect 😆‼️) When you need translation, please contact me!! I can help you in English 😊👍

Please go to the link 👇

https://www.kagoshima-kankou.com/for/activities/70450

08/02/2024

On the third day of Birdwatching Tour City in Kagoshima.

This morning, it was the fantastic weather even standing in the field was freezing cold😆💦

🕊️were flying in a beautiful formation and it’s very artistic✨

We walked along a riverside and around a Koga dam. We were very patient and waited until some showed up on a stone of river, on a branch of a tree or plants. Eventually we found several tiny pretty, and gorgeous birds there, such as crested kingfisher❣️

Satisfying today’s results, we had a big dinner at a local Japanese food restaurant.
The staffs here are always kind and cheerful👍👍

Ok!
Tomorrow is the last day.
Time flies fast 😭

Let me share what happens with you again 😆❣️

07/02/2024

Birdwatching Tour - the 2nd day
City, Kagoshima

Izumi City is well known as a sanctuary of cranes. The city has more than 13,000 of cranes this year, which is consecutively more than 10,000 these years.

It was a little bit cloudy and wet this morning, but we observed the overwhelmingly beautiful flying of many cranes in the sky💖

Today’s main event is finding a Siberian crane, which is registered as an endangered species in the world and very difficult to see.

Luckily we found it and took pictures of it, but not to scare it, we did it through windows keeping a distance.

Today, we walked and walked, in the end I didn’t feel my legs as my own legs😂

Anyway, we had a huge dinner again to energize ourselves again 😆👍👍👍🍓🍽️

06/02/2024

This year’s birdwatching tour has begun‼️

Starting by picking up my guests at Kumamoto airport and we go to Yatsushiro to watch wild birds at a river mouth.

Amazingly the members of the group are good at finding a tiny tiny pretty bird at a long distance 😆❣️

We finished today’s mission with a big meal followed by beautifully decorated strawberry dessert 🍓

What can we watch tomorrow???
Let’s see😊💕

23/12/2023

Good morning, everyone 💕💕✨
from Kagoshima, Japan❣️

Mt.Takachiho and Mt. Sakurajima are observed very clearly this morning 💖

18/12/2023

The second day, actually the end of Rarumizu Tour!

Today’s mission is go cycling 🚴 for about 30 km from Sarugajo Gorge to a road station of Tarumizu City “Yuttari-Kan”.

It’s chilly early in the morning, but that is also very refreshing to me😊✨
After stretching muscles, we start the journey ❣️

Enjoying the views of the local river and sea coast and listening fascinating stories related to the nature and local people from the guide, the time flies, we completed the route😆👍‼️

Not using a car, but riding bicycle let us find many surprises.

Thank you, Seimo Nakaki(funny and thoughtful great guide😆), Nakamu, Kanzo and Naoko(Misora Link), the people organizing this tour💕

And more than anything, what I’d like to express my deep appreciation is the members of this tour😆💕
Thank you for giving me the chance to share the time with you, Hiroko, Rumi, Matt and Keiki 💖💖

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29/11/2023

On the 8th day.

The tour continues from Kumamoto to Nagasaki by a ferry ⛴️.

There are several hot spring sites on Shimabara Peninsula and three is them are actually from the same source of lava pool 🌋 and connected underground. But each of them has a different traits because of its character of soil.

Nature is beyond our expectations 😆❣️

A hotel in Nagasaki is quite cozy and the night city view from there is very beautiful ✨✨✨

27/11/2023

The 6th day.

Kagoshima ✨✨✨✨💕
It’s my hometown!!

“Does the volcano erupt almost every day? Unbelievable!”
“Do people live there? Unbelievable!”
“Does the local radish/mandarine orange grow in that size? Unbelievable!”

Welcome to Kagoshima😆❣️
This is the local life💕💕

26/11/2023

The 5th day.

Welcomed by sunlight from Pacific Ocean , today’s tour started!!

This was the very special day for my guests to have an opportunity to interact with local farmers and enjoy their produce.
Everybody’s smile faces and cheerful voices filled the place💕
“Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!”
“See you again !!!”

What a beautiful moment it was💖

What’s happening next???
The excitement will continue … 😊

24/11/2023

The 4th day.
(No post for the 3rd day because of no chance to take photos … .)

Mt. A*o is situated in the center of the world largest size of caldera in Kyushu.
Mt.Nakadake, which is one of the five mountain of Mt. A*o, is active and you can go very close to its creator.

On the way to there, the colorful trees entertained us a lot!

The beautiful gorge in Takachiho town in Miyazaki pref. is also covered with lots of red and yellow color. Its unique shape of column joints and rounded dents show the miracle of nature.

Let us stretch our legs and arms in a hotel in Miyazaki city…..😆

color

23/11/2023

The second day of the autumn leaves 🍁 hunting tour in Kyushu.

Did you know there are hells on the earth??
These colorful hells come from activities of nature; magma, rain and ground.

Such unique and extremely hot springs and autumn leaves make great harmonized views.

Beppu city in Oita pref. is a port town and has various kinds of fresh seafood !

My guests were so excited and enjoyed them a lot😆👍

To be continued …..

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