菊：Kiku is chrysanthemum in English and 祭り：matsuri , festival. In Japan during a week of fall, there are many Kiku matsuri many places. Festival doesn’t mean festival , drinking , dancing, eating delicious food in this case. Japanese names some events 〇〇〇festival. Main purpose of kiku matsuri in Japan is to enjoy viewing chrysanthemum beautifully …
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Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I will start “Experience Japanese culture” class at Huffines Recreation Center in January 2015. This class will enable you to taste Japanese culture. I am Japanese native and I would like to share in joy of Japanese culture. Just a taste but it’ll be interesting. Just give it a …
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Hello! Please let me share some tips to make a beautiful flower arrangement or Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arranging. The most important thing is Flowers Yes, fresh flowers! When you try Ikebana, leaves and stems play a role so lines of stems and shapes and colors of leaves important. If you observe …
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Thank you for visiting my website. Thank you for joining my Ikebana sessions at Crow Collection. It’s a great pleasure to meet new people and sharing in joy of Ikebana. So happy to see you, enjoying Ikebana and beautiful unique flower arrangements. Your joy is my joy! I had prepared for long and the very …
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投稿 by Motoko Japanese Culture. I am writing e-book about Ikebana. I love Ikebana; Japanese art of flower arranging. I have been practicing around 30 years. In my house I need cut flowers arranged in a vase. It is not necessarily bunch of flowers. Just single flower makes me happy. Also it makes the space …
Try Ikebana and you will love it! Once you like, you can’t live without it. Read More »
I am planning to have a class for kids who are surrounded by so much information on line. I hope information they access enable them to have different perspectives so that they may accept and understand different sense of values and cultures. Off line traveling abroad, meet people, eat and stay there is one of …
Experiencing Japanese culture classes for kids coming soon! Read More »
In spring Japanese enjoy cherry blossom viewing and in fall moon viewing. Moon viewing is only one or two nights while cherry blossom round a week. Another viewing in fall we Momiji viewing, which maples and other trees changed their color red and yellow. This year I enjoyed moon viewing with many people in Dallas. …
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I just watched the full moon of the eights months of lunar calendar. I couldn’t have time o make Tsukimi dumpling. Here’s a links. You will get the idea of Tsukimi. The most fun part is to eat Tsukimi dumpling. there also night concerts and tea ceremony. 投稿 by Motoko Japanese Culture. 投稿 by …
Otsukimi which means moon viewing is one of popular events in fall Read More »
To learn a language needs a strong motivation. Even we have one but we are sometimes tired of using a textbook. You can experience heart of Japanese who live along side with nature in a small islands with mountains and surrounded by oceans. Though it’s small, there are varieties of plants. Japanese have not tried …
Experience Ikebana;the Japanese art of arranging flowers. Read More »
This article is for a little beautiful baby Christina who went through a surgery on Friday. She is strong. She is our sunflower. May God bless her and her family. Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers. Flowers and plants have their own characters and beauty. They give us beauty and energy. In Ikebana …
Sunflowers are beautiful! Sunflowers for Christina! Read More »
