My Hodgepodge

One of my classmates arranged these flowers using (han-geshou) and nadeshiko (pink dianthus) in a tea ceremony class last week. These delica...

I enjoyed some delicious sake at dinner with my family tonight. I found it in a pop-up stall in Matsuzakaya Department store t...

It's one of our traditional events to eat a Japanese sweet cake called "Minazuki" at the end of June before July arrives. ...

I had a great time and really enjoyed my Kabuki day with my good friend Yuriko-san. What made it more fun for us was going to the theater i...

  Red spider lilies, in Japanese, “Higan-bana” (flowers which bloom on and around the Autumnal Equinox) have a very peculiar reputation amo...

    I had an important tea gathering to attend last month. It was called "Kuchikiri no Chaji", which literally means "to unse...

   We are in the midst of the Obon holidays in Japan.  Obon is a series of Buddhist memorial services for family ancestors which generally ...

 In Japanese folklore, we have many imaginary supernatural creatures called “youkai”, whose history mostly dates back to the period between...

This is the familiar view of the station building I saw this morning. It was good to see nothing had changed. That being said, I feel th...

Let me express how I feel in relation to the recent news of this girl's death. I feel the same way most mothers do. It is terri...