TriviaJapan’s Aesthetics/日本の美意識 Aside from construction sites, the traffic cones sometimes are used to warn people to avoid entering into the certa... 2023.01.24Trivia
TriviaCharity-Saba-/生飯 Buddhist vegetable meal including rice porridge with red beans at Myoshinji Shourinin temple, Kyoto/京都妙心寺塔頭東林院の小豆粥 T... 2023.01.10Trivia
TriviaFirst Dream of the New Year/初夢 What was your first dream of the New Year?The first dream usually mentions the one that people dream during the nig... 2023.01.03Trivia
TriviaProverb curved in water basin/吾唯足るを知る When you go to Zen temples, you may often find this style's water basin.What is this? An important teaching is c... 2022.12.20Trivia
What's TODAY?Niitakayama nobore 1208/ニイタカヤマノボレ1208 Continuation of the previous blog.How to transmit the signals?An antenna-like structure used to be put at each top.... 2022.12.06What's TODAY?
TriviaLucky Taxi in Kyoto/京都のラッキータクシー In general, a four- leaf clover is famous as a lucky item. There is another lucky item in Kyoto, which is a luck... 2022.11.15Trivia
TriviaThe secret of a mirror in Shrines/神社の鏡の秘密 Iya Shrine in Shimane prefecture/揖夜神社(島根県) Have you ever been to Shinto Shrines?For your information, the shrines ar... 2022.11.08Trivia
CultureCopying Buddhist sutras/写経 Have you heard that copying Buddhist sutras has the same merits as meditation?Most Japanese believe both in Shintoi... 2022.11.01Culture
TriviaThe statue of Shoki-san/鍾馗さん Have you remembered Onigawara?It's Ogre's face-shaped tiles which can be seen as the decoration of ridge-end tiles.... 2022.10.25Trivia
TriviaBicycle-parking Space/自転車置き場 When you hear the word, a bicycle-parking space, what kind of view comes into your mind?Is it the spacious area whe... 2022.10.18Trivia