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05/11/2024

Shichigosan celebration at the Hie shrine. Beautiful day with this wonderful family!✨️

After getting dressed at their house being helped by the professional dressers, we headed to the Hie shrine and had a fun and amazing photo shoot with

In the end, the family had special Shichigosan rites at the shrine to wish for the children's growth and well-being.

The family will move back to their country soon. I hope this Shichigosan celebration will be part of their good memory in Tokyo😊✨️

02/11/2024

Jimbocho Book Town! There are about 130 book stores, and they will never bore you! 📖

If you are also looking for something to decorate at your house, you find some stores with old kokeshi dolls and prints of art.

Jimbocho is also famous for one more thing...curry restaurants! 🍛 I didn't go to any this time, but there are 400 curry restaurants! I will for sure try the next time!

12/10/2024

My miso made with my guests in January is coming to a final fermentation!

During the 9 months of fermentation, we need to mix miso 3 times. First, around the cherry blossom season at the end of March/beginning of April, the second mix comes after the rainy season in June, and the last one is at the end of September/beginning of Oct.

Each time, we get rid of the mold that appears around miso. I have had many different kinds of mold in my miso in the past, which is very usual, but this time, there was none!

I mixed it well, put the plastic wrap,and put the weight stones back. I can't wait to eat it in about a month! My guests who moved to other countries will for sure enjoy it as well

I have not thought about holding a miso class next January yet, but if you are interested, I will! Please let me know😉

01/10/2024

Asakusa lantern festival was on at Asakusa shrine today! It was very pretty✨️It should be more gorgeous at night! It will be till Oct 5th!

I had a wonderful time with my dear guests today. Sensoji temple and Asakusa shrine are always nice, but we enjoy the backstreet of Asakusa more!

The dessert time at my favorite An-mitsu shop was especially fun and yummy😋

21/09/2024

The East Gardens of the Impreial Palace today. It was so hot that my guests and I immediately emptied the whole bottle of cold water at the rest area.😅

I only saw a few carps, and they even looked hot and tired. They were so slow! The tree of crape myrtle was in full bloom, and it was the only thing that didn't seem to care about the hot weather. It was very pretty.

14/09/2024

We planted two different kinds of rice - the black rice and the green rice.The black rice started to have many grains🌾 Can't wait for our harvest event on Oct 6th!

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21/06/2024

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✨️🍶

16/06/2024

Hydrangea festival at Takahata fudo in Hino. They run through until the end of June.

13/06/2024

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!

12/06/2024

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

11/06/2024

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.

10/06/2024

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！🌾

26/05/2024

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.

17/05/2024

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!

16/05/2024

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!

13/05/2024

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!

11/05/2024

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.

09/05/2024

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.

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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/

Sakura Sakura

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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