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2018年6月7日

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We love the photos!! Thank you very much 🙂 Nicknam : anonymousYour photographer :槇村太郎 TARO MAKIMURA[Photos]Came to the shop on : 4 / 21Rating : not select

2018年6月6日

Kofuku Jizo at Suzumushidera Temple

Kegon-ji (華厳寺) temple, also known as Suzumushidera (鈴虫寺, Cricket Temple), is very popular in Japan for the beautiful chirps of crickets on the premises. Visitors can join the Suzumushi Seppou (鈴虫説法, preaching ceremony while listening to crickets) in this season where light refreshments are served. Since there are certain rules for making wishes to this ・・・

2018年6月2日

Momi, Red Silk Lining

Momi (紅絹) is a term for thin silk fabric dyed in Beni (べに, crimson red) color traditionally used as linings or underwear for female Kimono in Japan. It is said that wearing red color keeps human body warm. I remember my grandma used to tell me, “Girls should not keep their body cold”. However, after ・・・

2018年5月30日

Misasagi, Graveyard of Tragic Empress

In Kyoto, there are many graveyards of emperors and empresses. Those graveyards are called Goryo (御陵) or Misasagi (陵). At a quiet place in the Higashiyama (東山) mountain, the graveyard of the Empress Fujiwara no Teishi (藤原定子), the wife of the Emperor Ichijo (一条天皇), is located. My readers might have heard a name, Seishonagon (清少納言), ・・・

2018年5月30日

A Shed Where Sakamoto Ryoma Hid Himself

Everybody knows that the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (坂本龍馬) was a short one, but his name remains as the man who established the monumental work called Saccho Domei (薩長同盟), an alliance between the Satsuma (薩摩, present Kagoshima Prefecture) and Choshu (長州, present Yamaguchi Prefecture) domains, which immeasurably contributed to the Meiji restoration (明治維新). In January ・・・