Cherry Blossoms of Kyoto

Cherry blossom is called a "sakura" in Japanese which symbolizes the nation.

Japanese spring March through early April a town and the village become full of the pink of the cherry blossoms. It soooo beautiful.

I just bought a gorgeous English book called "Cherry Blossoms of Kyoto". The book features 48 superlative cherry blossom viewing locations in Kyoto.

The ancient city of Kyoto was the imperial seat for over a thousand years(~end of the 8 century), Kyoto develop a rich culture of courtly origins.

I was deeply fascinated by this book, the cherry blossoms and temples , shrines are just gorgeous. I don't know any other word to describe it. I need to read as many as English book*) to learn more words. By the way thank you for reading my blog which I think some times hard to understand because of my odd English.

It nearly took 2 hours to finish one blog:)

Craftsman made

I'm not too interested in a brand things which many people has. I'm rather prefer a pice of thing which an artist or a craftsman made.

That's has warm feeling and story behind products and such a feel special to have and use it.

This little"amulet bag" dyed one by one in Japanese traditional technique and has an auspicious pattern on it.

I enjoy tradition in life and enjoy value of thing.

Japanese sweet treat : green tea cake

Green tea cake for teatime treat! This is a my favorite cake from Utopia at Myaree.

Utopia has lots of variety of asian style breads and sweets. Australian cake

is too sweet for me but Utopia's cake are just nice and look so yummy:)

Utopia Myaree :near corner of Leach hwy and North Lake rd

　　　Perth : 73 Barrack st

I use a Japanese "Tenugui" for napkin and wooden fork to coordinate. The Japanese book below shows you how to fold and wrap many things using the beautiful Japanese tenugui and furoshiki.

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★Other TENUGUI books

Glasses design by Kazuo Kawasaki

"Kazuo Kawasaki MP 704" glasses maybe next my wish list.
The picture above is my broken glasses not MP704*)

During a 2008 presidential election period, interest gathered on the Sarah Palin's glasses. "Palin has created quite a stir..... with her designer glasses. The nation's eyes
aren't just on Gov, Sarah Palin- they are on her glasses." by USA TODAY.

Her glasses is "Kawasaki Kazuo MP704" , originally the glasses are popular among American politicians and Hollywood, after election the glasses more than 20,000 of them sold in U.S.A. The popular reason are stylish design, feeling of fitting has good and lightness. It doesn't use a screw for a part fixing a lens, as a result the number of parts became the half and lighter than other glasses also a high quality of the Made in Japan was accepted as for the popularity.

Kazuo Kawasaki is an award winning Japanese industrial designer.

Kyoto Cafe Time

"Kyoto cafe time" is a cafe special feature of Kyoto in Japan.

Kyoto was formerly the imperial capital of Japan and it also has extensive and well preserved heritages and traditional houses are still left along the city street.

In this book, the most cafe interior is just looks back to the olden days.

107 pages. Just look at pictures is still good.

One of my favorite time is read or just look at beautiful picture of interior books or magazines and this book makes happy feeling!

"kyoto Cafe Time"

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Green tea Gen Mai Cha

Good reason to have a cup of  "Gen Mai Cha" green tee.

Gen Mai Cha is green tea combined with roasted brown rice so it has a nutty, toasty flavor and less caffein than other green tea and  there is an effect to help health.

Let's boil the kettle and enjoy a wonderful balance of 

aroma Gen Mai Cha.

Jyubako : It's more than lunch box

This Japanese bento box (lunch box) is called "Jyubako".

beautiful design and traditional  color especially the red  and glossy looks that  

is more than  lunch box.

It can be use for a  storage box around the house like a stationery box, sewing box, jewelry box- bits and pieces.

 

Art of Japanese clligraphy

Japanese calligraphy is a one of creative art which express 

spiritual depth and beauty by means of "kanji"(Kanji are the

 Chinese characters which are used in modern Japanese

writing). Each of kanji character has a meaning.
What's in the box?

A. My Japanese calligraphy set.

Brush, sumi(ink) and some papers.

I took the box out from the depths of the shelf after I watch the  

I had begun to write the word while remembering that I learned Japanese calligraphy in a childhood.

I was able to spend time that is calm and meditating on the meaning of word.

There are 26 alphabet. Haw many Japanese characters are they?

"hiragana" "katakana" that is types of written characters that is 46 each and heaps of "kanji" characters. 

Today's word.