Beautiful Project. I wish one home has a flower to create happier home, community, country and the world. When I made this facebook page last year, I was so disappointed to see and hear terrible news everywhere. Battles, Gun violence, Terrorism. In Dallas police officers were shot. These problems are too much and too …
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Tanabata is a Japanese festival celebrated on July 7th. Every Japanese know this Tanabata legend and the song. I shared fun of Tanabata with college students. Please enjoy Tanabata ! Like most of Japanese culture the story of Tanabata came from a legend of ancient China. Japanese adopted, developed and changed to our own way …
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For me to arrange flowers is very relaxing . Sometimes I imaging ancient Japanese people, including emperor, Shogun, Samurai, town people facing to the flowers and admiring every stem and thinking how to arrange. Those moments, I think, are the moments to share history and principle of Ikebana. Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower …
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Happy Father’s Day!My father is like a tree. My father was busy with working and as most of other Japanese fathers when I was a child. I guess still Japanese father spend less time comparing to Americans. Since I migrated to the U.S I have been impressed to see how much fathers spend time with …
COOK PAD is the post popular cooking recipe cite in Japan. It has 2680000 recipes. It helps me tremendously! When I didn’t know how to cook or what to cook, I always go to this site. It is so much fun so I spend more time than I should. I recommend to you to come …
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In Japan I had never seen a blue jay so I imagined “The Blue Bird of Happiness” must look like a blue jay. The Blue bird happiness is well known from a story by Maeterlinck. When I found a blue jay and took a picture. I was so excited to post the picture on my …
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可愛い、カワイイ、かわいいKawaii is Japanese word to describe a thing/person that is beautiful, cute, tiny,in style and more to appreciate.love, and admire. Women use it quite often. I would like to show you some Kawaii things. It is a Japanese confectionary, called Manju 饅頭、まんじゅうor Omanju お饅頭 おまんじゅう; O adding politeness. This is 綺麗、キレイ、きれい Kirei too. This Omanju tasted very springy! …
I had a really good time with Ranjana yesterday. She is my Indian friend. I didn’t have any Indian friend when I was in Japan because there were not many Indians in Japan,especially my ares. I went to India in 2008 for the first time. I had wanted to see Mother Teresa but she passed …
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I am happily living in Dallas but always miss Japan around this time of the year, thinking of Japanese people enjoy viewing cherry blossom, Hamami花見.Pale pink petals and rich pink buds. Though their life is short, every Japanese has memories of cherry blossom. In April is the beginning of school year and fiscal year. Entrance ceremony …
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Ikebana is translated the Japanese art of flower arranging. It is art in the sense of we can express our message, impression, feeling. If you don;t appreciate the life of the flowers and respect its own character and beauty in front of you, you can’t create a beautiful Ikebana. My teacher always said to me, …
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