In the Japanese tea ceremony, it is traditionally said that “first Raku, second Hagi, and third Karatsu (ichi Raku, ni Hagi, san Karatsu),” meaning Raku ware is the best pottery…

Bantoro (ten thousand garden lanterns) Festival was held at Kasugataisha Shrine on September 18 as one of the events to celebrate 1,300 anniversary of the establishment of Heijo-kyo. Copyright(C) Miki…

  In Japan, some people believe that cleaning toilet is good luck especially with money. It is a famous story that a film director, Takeshi Kitano has cleaned toilet since…

About 2,500 lanterns are lined up around the hall annually on August 15.  Copyright(C) Miki   →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

Let me introduce a blog post about ‘hamaya’ (sacred arrows) of one of my favorite entertainment blog sites. Do you know anything about ‘hamaya’? It is a good luck charm…

One of the ceremonies held as part of Fuchintaisai Festival at Tatsuta Shrine (Nara prefecture) on July 4.Copyright(C) Miki →Miki’s twitter← (English is OK)

The festival is held at Kamotsuba Shrine in Gose city.The festival floats with 10 hanging Japanese pampas paper lanterns are carried out from Katsuragi park to Kamotsuba Shurine in Gose…

  This is a Japanese traditional hand towel “Tenugui”. Poetry of Mitsuo Aida is written on this tenugui. It is also suitable for KENDO head cloth. The translation is like…

  When you turn on TV during New Year Holidays in Japan, you will notice that many performance shows are given on different channels. From traditional performance art to new…

You might have had many celebrations this past holiday season.  How many parties did you attend?  Did you enjoy them very much? Japanese people also throw many parties this time…

On January 3, “Karuta Hajime” ceremony was customarily held at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, and women and children in Japanese dynasty costumes performed karuta game to the visitors.    …