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2018年9月1日

Light Festival at Tadasu no Mori at the World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine

The World Heritage site of Kamomioya-Jinja Shrine（賀茂御祖神社）is popularly known as Shimogamo Shrine (下鴨神社). It is one of the oldest shrines in Kyoto, and has been considered as a guardian of town ever since the relocation of the capital to Heian-kyo (平安京遷都). Around the entrance path of the shrine, there spread a primeval forest called Tadasu ・・・

2018年8月28日

Light-up in Shousei-en (Kikokutei)

The Shousei-en garden (where occurs one of Yumeyakata’s location photo courses) is a beautiful park that, while located in the middle of Kyoto, offers a beautiful view of Japanese four seasons with a wide variety of flowers, evergreen trees and a nice pond. The land of the garden was donated 1641 by the shogun Tokugawa ・・・

2018年8月26日

Yumeyakata offered yukata to figure skating player Ms. Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova

Photo by Kansai TV On August 4 2018, Yumeyakata offered yukata to Ms. Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova who appeared in Kansai TV “Kansai TV 60th Anniversary Special Program THE ICE ☆ Blumayo’s Figure All Star Summer Festival”. Photo by livedoor NEWS Many other medias have also been posted about it. Lots of overseas fans commented ”So ・・・

2018年8月24日

Unsewing Kimono

Previously, I have written an essay about Doyo no Mushiboshi (土用の虫干し, airing Kimono during hot summer days) here. Today, I would like to write about unsewing Kimono (着物). My mother and grand mother used to unsew their kimono and washed. The length of unsewed Kimono ran up to 12 meters, and the disassembled fabric were ・・・

2018年8月23日

Lovely! Shoujuin Temple

Many of my readers may know Shoujuin (正寿院) temple via my previous email magazine. The other day, I visited the temple to see the “Fu-rin Matsuri (風鈴まつり, Wind Bell festival), held from July 1 to September 18♪ Under the blue sky, a countless number of wind bells were swinging. Each of them has an illustration ・・・