Blog　Blog

2019年5月9日

KYOTOGRAPHIE Kondaya Genbey Site

Currently, We YUMEYAKATA present a collaboration program with KYOTOGRAPHIE, International Photography Festival, with which users can enjoy watching photographic arts at many venues in Kyoto, while wearing beautiful Kimono (着物). How about that? I visited the festival to see the Kondaya Genbey (誉田屋源兵衛) site, an authentic Obi (帯) manufacturer in Kyoto established 280 years ago. ・・・

2019年5月8日

Kirishima Azalea at Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine

Nagaokakyo (長岡京) city, a former capital of Japan before Kyoto, is renowned for its histrical importance. Nagaoka Tenmangu (長岡天満宮) shrine is one of them. The deity of the shrine is Sir Sugawara Michizane (菅原道真) who was delegated to Dazaifu (大宰府) in Kyushu (九州), and the shrine was built at the place where Michizane stopped by ・・・

2019年5月2日

Flower Walk

Thanks to the cold weather in the early spring, Someiyoshino (そめいよしの, a breed of cherry blossom) this year lasted very long, and many poeple enjoyed it. Someiyoshino blossom quickly falls once their prime is over, yet we Japanese regard the way it falls as very graceful. Many of us reminise the brief but heavenly moment ・・・

2019年4月30日

Taiyaki, fish-shaped pancake, at Amairo

I love sweets, especially Wagashi (和菓子, Japanese confectionary). Lately I have realized the delicious taste of Anko (あんこ, sweet bean paste) which is very healthy. Wagashi taste good because they are often simpler than Western cakes in terms of ingredients, so that the tastes are required to be really good, and the shapes are to ・・・

2019年4月29日

Nice guide and translater

Very interesting! I learned a ton of information about the city. I never would have noticed how intentioned the design is in Kyoto and I appreciated the details. Seinsei was very knowledgeable and I appreciated our translator.