The gold patched on Kinkakuji temple
Gold leaf in Kyoto Japan. Walking Oike street opposite side of Kyoto city hall, there is a small shop of Gold, Horikinpakuko.co. It has 300 years’ history since…
The scenery of “plum blossoms and a nightingale” has been loved by Japanese since over 1000 years ago!
It was warm winter this year, so plum blossoms in Kitano tenmangu shrine in Kyoto have started blooming earlier than usual. The friend of plum blossoms is a bir…
Hina doll’s (Girl’s festival) Tea Ceremony
Tea Ceremony Koto starts special seasonal tea ceremony from February 17th to March 20th. It’s Tea Ceremony for Hina doll’s festival, which is an occasion to pra…
The healthy home cuisine in the Japanese house
Healthy Japanese home cuisine Kyosendo is a Japanese lunch restaurant in Aneyakoji Kyoto. Its buildings remains the old Japanese style and their home cuisine is…
Cafés near Kyoto station where we can have Matcha tea
Matcha Cafe around Kyoto station There are some cafes I’d like to drop in when I go to Kyoto station. Not only matcha ice cream, we can enjoy parfaits, matcha s…
Valentine’s Tea Ceremony
Artistic Valentine’s Tea Ceremony It’s Valentine’s day in February 14th. It’s popular to give chocolates from girls to her boy friends in Japan. But how a…
Tea Ceremony for table and chair style “Chitose-bon”
Chitose-bon way of tea, we can perform on the table as well! “Chitose-bon” plate is the way of tea created by a wife of 14th grand master of Urasenke tea school…
Japanese sweets for the early spring; Tsubaki rice cake
Japanese sweets for the early spring Tsubaki mochi is the traditional Japanese sweets, the rice cake with a sweet bean ball inside is put between 2 camellia lea…