Have you ever been Japan in Autumn? I recommend you to come Japan in Autumn for your first visit. Because a fallen maple leave may tell you aesthetic sense of Japanese. Autumn is also the best season for a lot of ingredients. My favorite autumn foods are chestnuts, a pacific saury, and Japanese persimmon! Ingredients … [Read more…]
Loosestrife is called “Toranoo” in Japan. It means a tail of a tiger. Nyagoo also has a tail is interested in Toranoo.(^^)
In Japan autumn is good for dry and air kimono(Japanese traditional cloth) to protect it from mold and insects. High quality kimono is made of silk. Silk is not appropriate to be washed often, and vulnerable to mold and insects. So people put kimono in special drawers(→drawers for kimono) and dry it regurally in … [Read more…]
In a Japanese traditional style room you can see a vacant space like a built-in closet without doors. This space is called Tokonoma, and the floor is higher than other area of a room. Tokonoma has hanging partition wall, so it can be called alcobe in English. We display flowers or art objects matches with … [Read more…]