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Short walk view.
The beautiful season has come. Do you like to take a walk ? I want to go out and to breathe the fresh Spring air. We(my husband and I) usually take a walk same way. After a short walk on the...
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The golden rice paddy.
Four rice ears come out of a seed. 60 of fruits are born from a rice year. 60 by 4! 240 rice grains are born from every single seed....
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A Fall Festival in my town.
Japan's most beautiful season, autumn has come. There are many various types of festivals held throughout Japan. Every town, city and village either has a unique version of a festival.This is an autumn...
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Shimotsuki・・・November.
Shimotsuki is a Japanese traditional name for November. Literally, Shimotsuki means *a frost month*.It is getting frosty.Red leaves of a maple tree, which I can see from my window, have started to turn...
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Some of my memories.
December...Shiwasu(師走) is a Japanese traditional name for December. Shi (師) is the Japanese word for priest or teacher and Hasu (走) is the character for run. Together they literally mean “teachers and...
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Birds and Animals in a Wintery World.
Camellia.The buds of Japanese apricots were gradually growing in the cold.These photos were taken in the garden of the Shouhaku...
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The snow in Nara.
Rape blossoms enduring in the snow . Five years will have passed in the next sping since I moved to Nara after my husband retired. In Tokyo and Ibaraki prefecture, where I lived many years,...
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Hope
Five storied pagoda calmly towering into the sky. In the Nara park.An ancient city Nara with the history in 1300, which is grieved about the unrecorded disaster, watching the victims. The saw-toothed...
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Nara double cherry blossoms.
ChisokuinChisokuin, which is the sub temple of Todaij Temple, quietly stands in the corner of north in the vast garden of Todaiji Temple. The graceful cherry blossoms blooming in the back yard of this...
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The fragrance of roses.
Hello, everyone.The fluff of dandelions have gone with early summer breeze. I am in the rose garden in RoyousenjiTemple again like last Autumn.Last time, as it was just after I got my new camera, I...
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In search of freshness.
The rainy season has begun in Nara. We sometimes feel gloomy during the rainy season which lasts about one month, but everything looks vivid and colorful, especially green...
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How about some Japanese Green Tea?
Chinese Trumpet Vine is in full bloom here and there. This is the Green Tea field in Kyoto, which is well known as the most fragrant Uji tea with the highest quality. I visited this tea field with...
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My Walk in The Green.
This is a small paddy field near my house, which is along the course of my usual one-hour walk. It has been so muggy these days that I have given up walking in the middle of the day. But I am not...
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Dear friends.
I have been away from my computer due to my brother's illness. He got pharynx cancer last year and was cured after treatment. But,unfortunately recurrent cancer was found and hospitalized on August 29....
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A walk around Tokyo station.
My brother has gone to the other world, being surrounded by many friends, relatives and flowers. I appreciate your heartwarming comments on my last post. His memorial service was finished on October...
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Here and there in my town.
A stone basin in my garden.The town I live in has been showing a sign of going into autumn day by day. It is always fun to take a walk in a rural area and a residential area and to visit the local...
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Tenri city...
天理市の銀杏並木Tenri city is thirty kilometers south of Nara city where I live.Ginkgo trees are the symbol of this town.It wasdrizzling in the morning, but I decided to visit this...
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Memories.
Again, this year is coming to the end soon. A Japanese Camellia.A Japanese camellia by "Tourou", the Japanese stone lantern in our garden has bloomed. A calendar by Sandy Lynam Clough.Ten years ago, I...
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Japanese Tea Ceremony
A Happy belated New Year!!Two weeks have already passed since the New Year's Day. Thank you for visiting my blog and making your hearty comments on my previous...
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The Kitchen of The Nation
The Osaka City Central Public Hall. Completed in 1918.This building, which was built in a time that Osaka city was a busy commercial center, still remains in Nakanoshima Osaka. This...
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