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Ozawa sake brewery and Kajikaen in Ome.
After visiting Kajikaen and enjoying beautiful scenery, art, and architecture, we hiked the riverside trail to Ozawa sake brewery. We joined 30-min-tour inside the brewery. Tasting sake (Amazake, as well!) followed. What a perfect day✨️🍶
Hydrangea festival at Takahata fudo in Hino. They run through until the end of June.
I had a wonderful opportunity to join vegan halal ramen class the other day.
Nahoko san At home with Nahoko
provides vegan/vegetarian/ gluten-free ramen classes at her house. Her ramen is made of all natural, healthy ingredients and really tasty!
This time, it was a class with Muslim and non-Muslim participants, and we had a wonderful cultural exchange through this class.
One of my highlights was that I got to observe the Muslim prayers. Thank you so much, .safwa
.ehsan.khan
for this opportunity. It was a very beautiful and touching experience for me!
Thank you so much for an excellent and intercultural ramen cooking class!
The monthly shrine sale will be held this Sunday, June 16th, at Takahata fudo temple in Hino city. Some shops usually open from 6:30am. The annual hydrangea festival is going on this month. They will open a traditional tea room where it is usually not open to public, and you can also enjoy matcha!
Takahata fudo temple
733 Takahata, Hino city, Tokyo
The rice planting song was fun to sing during our planting. Back in the old days, people sang it to boost motivation against hard work and to pray good harvest.
Here are the words and translations:
こめというじを ほどいてみたれば はちじゅうはちと よめまする よめまする
こめをつくるにゃ はる、なつ、あき、ふゆ、はちじゅうはちの てまかかる てまかかる
When you disassemble the Kanji "rice" 米, you'll find that it is formed with three different kanji: "eighty-eight" 八十八.
Rice making goes through spring, summer, fall, and winter, and it requires time and effort with eighty-eight procedures.
Rice planting 2024 was successfully over with 76 wonderful participants!
We had people from America, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland, Singapore, India, England, Argentina Norway, and more!
Thank you for joining!
I also can't appreciate enough for Baba san Christina, .lopp.art
and students for helping and making this event a very special one!
Our harvest event will be on Octover 6th! Can't wait!
76名のみなさんと田植えが無事に終わりました！参加者のみなさんは、アメリカ、カナダ、ブラジル、スイス、インド、シンガポール、イギリス、ノルウェーの方々など。みなさん東京に在住の方々です。
もちろん、馬場さん、クリスティーナ、大学生のボランティアのみなさんをはじめとするお手伝いのみなさんのご協力なしでは実現しませんでした。どうもありがとうございました！
次は稲刈り！10月6日です！🌾
The Rice farmer Baba san is mixing the soil with water in the rice field. He is busy preparing his field so that we can experience planting on June 9th!
We still have a few more spots left. Please let me know if you would like to join!
Baba san is thinking of issuing a certificate for children who join both the rice planting and rice harvest on Oct 6th.
It will be a good achievement and proof or being exposed in cultural experience and also something to turn in school/college.
Every 1st, 15th and 28th are the day of shire sale at Tomioka Hachimangu shrine. My guests enjoyed it and were happy to find old post cards from around 100 years ago. I found the postcard of an old Mitsukoshi department store!
I was lucky to be able to help the lovely group of ladies plan a special farewell party as one of the ladies leaves Tokyo soon.
We had a kimono dressing, lunch with Geisha, and we got an opportunity to visit a nearby Asakusa Geisha Union office.
Seeing the practice of traditional Nagauta music, the stage, and a real working place of staff members were very interesting!
Ikebana, the traditional Japanese flower arrangement class. Sensei taught us the basics of Ikebana arrangement, and my guests enjoyed it very much!
Unlike the western style flower arrangement, Sensei told us that having "space" in between flowers is important.
This way, the breeze can come through.
Well, it applies to many things, including our mindset , in fact!
Avatar cafe DAWN was very interesting. My guests and I liked the experience there because the robot, which takes order, entertains, and serves are not AI, but it was actual people who have difficulties getting out from home because of varies reasons such as physical disabilities, depression, and etc. Great way for such people to be connected with society.
Beautiful Japanese garden with Irises at Nezu museum. The peak has already passed, but still pretty. Of course, I also loved the moment of sitting in front of the folding screens of Irises at the exhbition and observing them! It is worth coming every year.
I frequently get to join the tea ceremony with my guests. I love each time because it is never the same, and there are always learning and beauty in it.
Today, the scroll the sensei picked said "薫風自南来 "Fresh May breeze is coming from the south." I thought it was perfect for the guests today. They were so lovely and pleasant, like a spring breeze. They were very respectful and eager to learn.
It was rainy and chilly outside, but I felt the warmth of spring in the tea room🌸
I was with guests near Kawaguchiko and Saiko yesterday. Although Mt. Fuji never showed her face, the cherryblosooms were everywhere🌸
The bloom of cherryblosooms is usually around this time at the area. The guests were so happy!
I also saw a wild Japanese serow. It's very rare to encounter!
Showa Kinen National Park was full of tulip and cherry blossoms yesterday!🌷🌸
(April 14)
Sakura is in bloom in Asakusa🌸I celebrated with 3D art latte of .
They latte artsit there nicely made Mt. Fuji & Sakura latte by my request!
Gunma is also very famous for kokeshi dolls. The traditional kokeshi dolls are famous in Tohoku, the northeastern area of Japan, but the production of modern kokshi dolls is no.1 in Gunma in all of Japan.
I stopped by at Usaburo Kokahi doll gallery and factory and was mesmerized by the variety of kokeshi dolls for sale, museum, and the factory you get to come in and watch artisans make kokeshi dolls. You can also experience painting your own kokeshi dolls.
https://usaburokokeshi.com/
Daruma temple!
Takasaki daruma is very famous in Japan. The production of daruma in Gunma pref. is No.1 in Japan!
One of my favorite activities with guests - visiting the only one Kokeshi maker in Tokyo and painting on the doll.
It was so fun to see my creative young guests experience wood curving and painting!
Also, it was so nice to see this family because they used to live in Tokyo, and I got to help them celebrate Shichigosan and got to do rice planting together several years ago! It was such a treat to see children's growth!😊
Shinjuku gyoen park with a lovely family🌸 Someiyoshino were not in bloom yet just like other places, but one big weeping cherry was. I am very glad I got to show them this😊
新宿御苑。ソメイヨシノは他と同じでまだまだ。枝垂れ桜は綺麗だった。やっぱりせっかくこの時期だしこちらの素敵なファミリーに桜をお見せできて良かった🌸
After a tour today (March 14), I went to check sakura to see if any of the trees are in bloom.
Most of them are still not, but I found a couple of them in bloom🌸 Can't wait to see Sumida river full of sakura in bloom soon!
Beautiful reunion day of a family from the US and Japan. They had not seen each other for 5 years because of the pandemic.
The family from the US dressed up in Kimono, and the family here were just so happy seeing them enjoy Japan. It was such a cold day, but the Japanese quince was in bloom (It was a week ago)🌸
So happy and honored to be part of my small guest's special celebration!
I am grateful for the restaurant owner who let me bring strawberry mochi (my guest loves mochi😉), the cookie plate that my baker friend made , and candles🎂
Also, thank you for the tea master who gave her beautiful picks for tea cake as her birthday present. Knot represents a good connection, and crane a longevity✨️
Miso workshop #2
Just another great day with ladies who are fun and passionate in learning just like the other day!
Today, a lady who joined our class 2 years ago joined again! She loved her miso so much and finished all her 3.5kg of miso. Miyako sesei was very happy!😊
Thank you again for all the ladies who joined this week and Miyako sense, Mayumi san, all the staff members of !
Miso workshop #1 with amazing Miyako sensei & lovely ladies!
Lots of mashing, mixing, pounding... we'll see how our organic miso will taste after 9 months!
Meanwhile, don't forget to do "Tenchi gaeshi", the stirrings! The first stirring should be around when cherry blossoms start to bloom🌸
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There is one more spot for the miso making class on Jan 25th! If you are interested, please send me a message!
You will be making 3.5 kg of miso with the finest ingredients. You can enjoy your homemade miso at home!
Wishing you all peace and love for the New Year.
I am on the way back right now from the trip to Wakayama, Himeji, Kobe, and Nagoya.
Just as usual, It was very nice seeing all my family, and I realized being able to spend time as usual is such a fortunate thing.
I hope 2024 will be a year filled with peace and love. I hope we can be grateful for what we are and what we have!
"Underground shrine"
I joined the tour of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel.
This facility not only secures this area in Saitama from flooding but also provides an underground tour, which is informative, thrilling, and photo worthy😉
I was so scared when I looked down the shaft, 70m in depth and 30m inner diameter, which can accommodate the Statue of Liberty🗽
https://www.mlit.go.jp/sogoseisaku/region/infratourism/en/infralist/saitama/index01.html
Last weekend with this beautiful family for the Shichigosan celebrations✨️
Both the 3-year-old boy and the 7 year-old-boy did so well at the rite at the shrine and the family photo session afterward.
The Shichigosan celebrations I got to help for this season are all over.
It was wonderful being part of each family's special day!✨️ I miss when my children were small😌💓
Mogusaen, the Japanese garden in Hino, located in the west of Tokyo, is now having a foliage festival with light up at night till tomorrow (Dec 3)
Very serene garden and famous for its plum festival in spring had a totally different look at night😁
Of course, the leaves during daytime now are also pretty🍁
📍Keio Mogusaen
560 Mogusaen, Hino city, Tokyo
(About 1 hour from the center of Tokyo)
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The rice planting song was fun to sing during our planting. Back in the old days, people sang it to boost motivation against hard work and to pray good harvest. Here are the words and translations: こめというじを ほどいてみたれば はちじゅうはちと よめまする よめまする こめをつくるにゃ はる、なつ、あき、ふゆ、はちじゅうはちの てまかかる てまかかる When you disassemble the Kanji "rice" 米, you'll find that it is formed with three different kanji: "eighty-eight" 八十八. Rice making goes through spring, summer, fall, and winter, and it requires time and effort with eighty-eight procedures.
Beautiful gingko trees at Gaien✨️
On the way back from Wakayama. My favorite train & the view😍
(日本語は下に) We had an amazing experience with a swordsmith the other day. My guests got so excited when the swordsmith showed us the row material of sword "Tamahagane", and also by the fact that he could tell the temperature of the frame by only seeing the shape of it! 先日刀匠のところでお客様に楽しんでいただきました。 こちらのご家族のお父様はエンジニア。刀の原材料である玉鋼の作り方や、刀匠が火の状態をみただけで温度も分かってしまうことが驚きだったようです。
Getting more and more colorful around Kajikaen in Mitake, the west of Tokyo. It will be the best color in about a week🍁 御嶽の河鹿園のあたりはどんどん紅葉が美しくなってきました。今年は早く、あと１週間でピークを迎えるかと思われます。
Beautiful Mitake. It will be even more gorgeous with colors at the end of November🍁 Thank you At home with Nahoko for this wondetful clip capturing my tour at Kajikaen & Mitake are!!
Thank you very muc for Hino Ohayash grop - the traditiona festival music band (@_hinobayashi_) for coming to celebrate our harvest! 稲刈りを盛り上げに来てくださった日野囃子保存会のみなさま(@_hinobayashi_)、素晴らしいパフォーマンスをありがとうございました！
Baba san's rice field the other day! The rice seedlings we planted in June got so big with lots of rice. It will be ready for our harvest on Oct 15! Almost full, but few more families can still join for the event. Let me know if you are interested!
Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition “Flower Prelude” June 8 (Wed) - 26(Sun), 2022 https://www.sogetsu.or.jp/e/events/hq-org/hq-building/27120/
Beautiful music of Koto, the traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument. The song is “Sakura sakura”. Eriko san played Koto for us in Kimono with my friend Yuko san when we did the group tour at Kiyosumi garden in 2018. They played some traditional songs and the National anthems of each participant from different countries! Do you remember? I'd love to invite them to play in my tour again! お琴での独奏 「さくら さくら」です。日本人でなくてもきっと心に響く音色ですよね。 この演奏をされているのは2018年9月に行った清澄庭園庭園でのツアーで、私たちにお琴を披露してくださったえりこさんです。ゆうこさんとお二人で、伝統的な曲や、参加者の方それぞれ全員の国歌をお琴で演奏してくださいました。 またぜひお二人の演奏をゆっくり楽しめるツアーも企画したいです！
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