I found that I should let more and more Japanese people know and try Ikebana/ Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging with over 550 year history. I moved to the States and I would like to share in joy of Ikebana with people living here in the States. I thought of non Japanese …
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Post by Motoko Japanese Culture.Constant dripping wears away the stone. The message I was moved was a woman who attended community college for 12 years and she is going to graduate this year. Amazing!!! She is a wife and mother and a student with a job. How she could keep learning, She introduced us a Chinese …
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Post by Motoko Japanese Culture. The biggest reason I am writing an ebook about Ikebana:the Japanese art of arranging flowers is to share joy and feeling I have experienced by doing Ikebana. To bring flowers’ beauty and lives to you. You will enjoy nature around you. You will know much more by experience. I have …
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This is a book for women who like Cosplay and you will see shops in Tokyo. You will love reading it! Fleeing almost walking in shops in Tokyo! The Author Mr. Hiroshi Satake wrote some more books about Tokyo and Japan guide in English. Go Amazon! Visit his facebook! http://goo.gl/HZQCaZ
My passion is to share joy and serenity of Japanese traditional culture such as Ikebana, Japanese art of flower arranging and tea ceremony. I woudl like to send a message about how enjoyable and peaceful to arrange flowers by ourselves but is that what readers woudl like to know about? My aim to write the …
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Hi Laura, I hope I spell your name correctly. Thank you for attending Ikebana class last Saturday. Thank you for consideration, thinking of participants who would come later. Actually we had enough flowers and green for Ikabana experience. Ikebana is not just arrange many beautiful flowers but more simple and more than that. Philosophy behind. …
January is the month which we can sense tradition of Japan. New year’s day Everything new and clean! My heart, mind and spirit are all clear and clean on January 1st. It is same day with day and night of 24 hours as the day of December 31st but different. I love the feeling of …
Dear my friends, Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you will find something new and fun here. Please watch thisvideo. Greetings of the new year and you will see the flower arrangement with pine tree. Pine is the most formal plant in Japan. It’s used for celebration of wedding and a new year. …
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笑う門には福来る。わらうかどには ふくきたる Warau kadoinha Fuki kitaru. http://youtu.be/-l1u54oqnGc It’s a Japanese proverb saing, “A house full of laughter brings good fortune.”At the beginning of the year we play this game and laugh, wishing for a good fortune of the new year. I introduced Fukuwarai at the event , Mochitsuki; New Year’s Celebration by Japan America Society. Thank you …
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Mochistuki ; New year Cerebration help by Japan America society Dallas/Fortwarth. SUNDAY 18 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Mochi is rice cake and you can’t miss mochi on the new year’s day. At the event called Mochistuki, you can eat mochi；rice cake. You can also try pounding rice ! not machine but by …
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