My Hodgepodge

Christmas was over and it's time for many housewives in Japan to prepare to welcome the New Year. I would say not all, but many of ...

Yesterday evening, when I heard the rain, an idea came to me.  I went outside and from just out the windows picked some Japanese anemone f...

This Fountain Tower was built in time for the 10th Kansai Area Prefectural Union Joint Exhibition of 1910 at Tsuruma Park in Nagoya.  ...

 Japanese Anemone Flowers are gracefully in full bloom in my garden.

Tsuruma Park was constructed in 1909 as the first public park in Nagoya. It was in 1868 when the three-hundred-year-long samurai gov...

水流間 Please take a look at these three Japanese kanji characters. It used to be a name of a place. It reads “tsu-ru-ma”, which means “...

My daughter came home to stay overnight on the way to Ena, a mountainous town in Gifu, which is the prefecture next to ours. She was on a ...

September 19th, the third Monday of September,  was a national holiday named the Respect for the Aged Day. Various public ceremonies were...

Tsuruma Park in Nagoya was the first public park in the region. It was established in 1909. The existing modern and classic buildings and ...

Just last week on February 3 , we celebrated ”Setsubun", the Bean-Throwing Festival in our homes, at shrines and in temples throughout...