I had been waiting for this to come out for awhile and it finally arrived this morning by special delivery. A friend of mine’s company, down in south Kyoto, where they brew all the sake, has been developing really nice futons, blankets and pajamas with a very interesting layered gauzy cotton fabric, that I think …
The last few weeks the tulips have been blooming in my little garden. This morning, after a night of heavy rain, I went out to have a look around and took a few photos. Elsewhere, in the garden the chabana ‘tea flowers’ are also blooming. Chabana are flowers that are used to decorate the tea …
I stopped in at Soba Ryori Nicolas (pronounced ‘nikola’ in Japanese) for lunch this afternoon and was impressed! I had the ’fruit tomato’ soba and the annindofu (Chinese almond jelly) with soba honey for dessert. The ‘fruit tomato’ is popular in Japan and is greenhouse grown with a minimum of water which produces a very …
Cherry blossoms only last a few days. They are blown away by the spring winds and washed away by spring downpours. Therefore, the sakura (cherry blossom) is one of the symbols of the samurai warrior – as they could lose their lives at any moment. Today, as I was on my way back from a …
After a day of rain, and my dinner, I was biking home and when I crossed the Gojo Bridge, I looked up the Kamo River and saw a great view of Mt Hiei shrouded in evening mist and clouds. The photo, taken with my phone doesn’t quite do it justice.
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