Cherry blossoms | TATE: The Diary of a Japanese Man

2023-04-09

The cherry blossoms are beautiful, but that isn’t all

The Imperial Moat named Chidori-ga-fuchi is famous for its cherry blossoms (many of them are a popular type named, “Somei-yoshino”). One day, I took a walk around the moat. The cherry blossoms were starting to fall, and a flurry of cherry blossoms poured down like snow. I found a small information board in some bushes near the British Embassy in...

Nature

2021-05-02

My way of appreciating “Saigyo-zakura”

“Saigyo-zakura” is a spring-like Noh play. Actually, it is performed between March and May. Saigyo-zakura has a particularly quiet and static mood. If you appreciated it without prior knowledge, you would fall asleep in the middle of the play. In other words, Saigyo-zakura is not suitable for a novice in Noh. This time, I will write some points so that...

Culture

2021-04-25

The cherry blossoms in Yoshino made me think about various things

On that day, I visited Yoshino to sightsee early in the morning. It was my first time visiting there. Yoshino is on a ridge of the Omine Mountains, in Nara Prefecture, and it has been famous for its cherry blossoms from ancient times. About 30,000 cherry blossoms are the symbol of Yoshino. Besides that, Yoshino had been the historically and...

Nature

2021-03-14

“Kabazaiku” really reflects Japan and its sense of beauty

Japanese tea is essential for my life, and I’m enjoying various kinds of Japanese tea, such as Sencya, Houjicya, Genmaicya, and more. So I have some tea canisters to store these tea leaves. This tea canister is one of them. It is called, “Kabazaiku”. Kabazaiku is a general term for handcrafts that are made from the bark of the cherry...

Crafts

Tag: Cherry blossoms

The cherry blossoms are beautiful, but that isn’t all

My way of appreciating “Saigyo-zakura”

The cherry blossoms in Yoshino made me think about various things

“Kabazaiku” really reflects Japan and its sense of beauty