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Bonsai sugar cookies are delicious way to show Japanese art
YOKOHAMA, Aug. 4 ― Risa Hirai decorates bonsai with royal icing on cookies. Bonsai translates in Japanese to “tray planting,” an art that uses cultivation techniques to produce small trees, which mimic larger scale ones, in shallow spaces. The 28-year-old Japanese cookie artiest specializes bonsai on baked cookies. She uses an icing bag like a pen to draw lines, swirls or any other designs that are as simple or complex as she likes. Once cookies are decorated, they can be stored in a freezer container for up to three months, she says. She sells her cookies, which cost about 700 yen ($6) and above per piece. Hirai also decorates sukiyaki, … Continue reading
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Abandoned world war factory sitting still in farmland
SAITAMA, Aug. 15 – The day to remember the end of the World War II came again on August 15. However, in a crop land in Kushibiki region, Fukaya city, Saitama Prefecture, a thick concrete building always sits still to help you recall the war. The 5-square-meter 10-meter-high 2-story building used to be a gunpowder factory built during the World War II. Both the building and the farmland belong to a local farmer, but he grows nothing there as the land is always shady because of the structure. During the war, it was, reportedly, part of the No.2 arsenal of the Tokyo army base. It was moved from Tokyo to … Continue reading
【Series】 Our Noh no Ikebana ： “We expresse the power of the Sun,” says Nobuko Ebisawa, 73, from Ibaraki town, Ibaraki Prefecture (Aug. 3)
“Five years ago, I participated in an event presented by a local all-female group of Noh no Ikebana arrangers. Then after that, I began Noh no Ikebana. The fun of Noh no Ikebana for me is how we arrange something very ordinary, vegetables and flowers, freely and using our senses. Usually, I enjoy having a small arrangement of a small number of materials at the entrance. I make dried flowers too so that I can enjoy them throughout the year. I made this arrangement with a friend of mine, Ritsuko Yasu, 75. The theme is the gift of summer. Sunflowers represent the Sun, while corns, tomatoes, and all other summer … Continue reading
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Kanekobara no Mushi-okuri Odori continuing to send away insects and pray for good harvest
July 29, SHIMANE – On July 20 every year, some villagers of Kanekobara, Shimane Prefecture, in summer yukata and with traditional straw hats with paper flowers and perform traditional dance named “Kanekobara no Mushi-okuri Odori,” which literally means “dance to send off insects” in Japanese. The dancers walk around the village to draw insects from the rice fields and flame them at the end of the ceremony. At 1:00 P.M., a straw-made soldier on horseback called Sanemori-san and 20 male villagers left the Mihoryo Shrine and started the 8-kilometer walk to the Suwa Shrine. Some with banners led the party and the others with traditional instruments such as kane (ching) … Continue reading
The nightmare remains – July 2018 torrential rain and floods in western Japan
EHIME, OKAYAMA, HIROSHIMA, July 14 – Several consecutive days of torrential rain that hit large parts of western Japan in July caused floods and landslides in a number of areas, with the death toll topping 200 in 14 prefectures. Farmlands and agricultural facilities were severely damaged, with floods killing crops and slopes with fruit trees collapsing. The extent of damage to agriculture is yet to be fully grasped.
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