Ichigo-Ichie

I'm a Japanese woman living in Nara. This blog tells you how to be a "YAMATONADESHIKO". "Yamatonadeshiko" means an ideal Japanese lady who is intelligent, sophisticated and thoughtful. I learn Sado-Japanese traditional tea celemony and Ikebana-Japanese traditional flower arrangement. I introduce about Japan through my experiences. So you can get to know more about Japanese culture such as Sado,Ikebana, customs and seasonal events, especially the ones in Nara.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Japanese Food "Okonomiyaki"

"Okonomiyaki" is famous and popular food in Japan.
This is well known as a specail food in Osaka, and also Hiroshima.
And there is a lot of difference between Osaka's Okonomiyaki and Hiroshima's one.
This photo is Osaka style.

The left one is Okonomiyaki and the right one is Negiyaki.
We used to eat Okonomiyaki by little metalic turner like photo.
But now a days we use chopsticks to eat Okonomiyaki.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Window Decoration

The rainbow appear in my cafe's window.
I made this design by clear colored rubber goods.
My cafe is Hawaiian style.
And Hawaii is famous that we can often see rainbows.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Rock-Salt Lamp

I bought a globe‐shaped rock-salt lamp.
This rock-salt is red salt and this is from Myanmar.
Rock-salt has very strong energy, and it radiate minus ion.
Salt is known that purify air, water, soul, energy, and so on.

The rock-salt lamps has each different looks.
I like THIS(mine) look like Jupiter.

Friday, August 04, 2006

The ZENGO word "Take"

This Zengo word is "Take";Bamboo.
In Japan, bamboo is one of items that direct cool.