Tag: Japanese culture
I’m NOT a early bird, so it was a hard work to get up in the morning,
but earth day market is worth for it!
we can enjoy many good (taste and for health!) foods there, and can buy some fresh vegetables, eco-friendly goods or so :)
it’s better to ready small changes to pay at the market!
This book explains how to easily keep honeybees at home. Even if living in the urban city, many prople want to feel natural life.
You can study honeybee’s behavior, how to keep honeybees and how to make honey or beewax by reading this book.
Now we have a food camouflage ploblem. We don’t have a parfect way of distinction. So, I think that making foods by oneself will be one of global trends.
I went to Jingu Stadium to watch baseball game, Yakult vs. Hanshin on rany night. Yakult is home team of Tokyo (Giants, too) . Hanshin is home team of Osaka and Kobe area.
Hanshin is very popular in Tokyo, too. So many Hanshin fans are in Jingu Stadium. Hanshin fans fly blowing balloons at the 7th inning.
Yakult fan’s lucky item is the umbrella that is smaller than normal. Yakult’s mascot “Tsubakuro” (as a swallow) is on the tip.
The free space “BORN FREE WORKS” is in Yuigahama beach, Kamakura. Kamakura is the suburbs of Tokyo and Yokohama and along the seashore.
When I went the other day, The knit brand “n100″ held their exhibition sale. BORN FREE WORKS’s owner Kako-san is a surfer. She is usually selling a hammock there.
This is Otokomae(Handsome Guy) Tofu flavored white chocolate.
Processed Otokomae(Handsome Guy) Tofu is one of the ingredients. It’s amazing that I can taste tofu with chocolate !!
How do you imagine or know about Harajuku?
Yeah, it is very exciting young people’s fashion sacred place.
But this time I recommend you Ukiyo-e Ota memorial museum of art!
The museum is at the back of Laforet Harajuku.
You can see a lot of beautiful Ukiyo-e. just like into Japanese house,
you need to take off your shoes to enter the Museum. Unbelievably calm & serene place.
You can get some Ukiyo-e printed stationery at the reception.
Tsukimi is a Japanese festival honoring the first full moon of Autumn. The celebration takes place on the 14th of September on the lunisolar calendar this year.
Manju is a popular traditional Japanese confection.
There are many varieties of manju, but most have an outside made from flour, rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of an (red bean paste), made from boiled azuki beans and sugar.
We look at the moon, enjoying the beauty silence. Tsukimi also has the meaning of celebrating the autumn harvest.
I ride on Yakatabune, the traditional party boat with some friends.
the ship serves good Japanese dinner… sashimi, tofu and Tempura was served as soon as these are fried immediately.
If you’d like to ride that big group as 20 people or more, you can rent whole one Yakatabune.Or small group, you’ll ride it with other groups.
Yakatabune – Tokyo’s Party Boat (Yokoso! Japan article)
I went to Asakusa with my friend and we stopped by Funawa for sweets. We had Anmitsu and kusamochi.
Anmitsu is made of small cubes of agar jelly, a white translucent jelly made from red algae or seaweed which served in a bowl with sweet azuki bean paste or anko.
kusamochi is a rice cake mixed with yomogi. If you have a sweet tooth, you will love them!!
a day seems like hot summer is going, I went to eat oden :)
many kind of fish cakes and some vegetables are stewed in the large pan.
the shop master take care of these carefully.
hot oden warms us… not yet winter though. some sweat :P
oden - wikipedia
