Bonsai : meaning of the shape
Bonsai
The Japanese tradition describes bonsai tree designs using a set of commonly understood, named styles.The most common styles include formal upright, informal upright, slanting, semi-cascade, cascade, raft, literati, and group/forest.
Less common forms include windswept, weeping, split-trunk, and driftwood styles.Formal upright or chokkan style trees are characterized by a straight, upright, tapering trunk. Branches progress regularly from the thickest and broadest at the bottom to the finest and shortest at the top.
Sake and Japanese food
It comes to drinking places or eating places. You would be amazed in Japan. There are so many places that you want to go to try Japanese traditional sake or Japanese foods. There are a lot of fusion places in Japan. The pont is you can taste the greatness of Japan anywhere you go!! Enjoy Japan !
Akihabara Tokyo, Electronics Street
Akihabara Tokyo Electronics Street
When I come to Akihabara Tokyo I always feel like as if I were a totally different world where the all the lights and sounds and the sceneries that are all surrounded with the characters from Animations. If you are an animation lover or you want to find the particular electronics this is where you need to visit when you are in Tokyo. Electronics Hundreds of electronics shops, ranging from tiny one man stalls specializing in a particular electronic component to large electronics retailers, line the main Chuo Dori street and the crowded side streets around Akihabara. They offer everything from the newest computers, cameras, televisions, mobile phones, electronics parts and home appliances to second-hand goods and electronic junk.
Yes, there are starbucks in Japan
It comes down to Wifi location, there are Starbucks in Japan also. You will be able to have same coffee just at it is in your home town. The Wifi service just started recently. There will be small steps to log in. But it is very simple. So you will be able to connect to your PC and spred out how you are experiencing in Japan from Japan. Enjoy!
Nikko To-sho-gu
As I was in the school years, I visited this place a couple times. I looked back then, I did not know what the real meaning of this place and the places where are surrounding area. I have started deeply rearizing the meaning and trasitions and people’s perspectives that can reflect to people’s lives. The ideas are the accumulations of the culture and history. You can take take time and observe and absorb the culture itself, take deep breath and enjoy the moments
Nikkō Tōshō-gū (日光東照宮) is a Shinto shrine located in Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the “Shrines and Temples of Nikkō“, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
To-sho-gu is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Initially built in 1617, during the Edo period, while Ieyasu’s son Hidetada was shogun, it was enlarged during the time of the third shogun, Iemitsu. Ieyasu is enshrined here, and his remains are entombed here.
During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate carried out stately processions from Edo to the Nikkō Tōshō-gū along the Nikkō Kaidō. The shrine’s annual spring and autumn festivals reenact these occasions, and are known as “processions of a thousand warriors.”