Mr. Jizo in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City Many of them are simple paintings that look like eyes and noses in chaos

Fukujukusou began to bloom in the Amano district of Katsura Town. Nearby, Seribao wren was also blooming dainty flowers.

🔪Delving into the Mystery of Blade Shapes🔪 📚Join Eric Chevalier, a blacksmith-trained native of France who apprenticed in Sakai, as he explores the many mysteries behind blade shapes! Blades are indispensable in our daily lives, and this event digs into the unique appeal of Sakai cutlery.✨ 📢“Untying the Threads of Sakai: Exploring Sakai’s Mysteries 2025”🎉 🗓️ Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 📍Sakai Hamono Museum “CUT” (inside Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum) 🔍For details, please check the notices on the Sakai Tourism Guide website. 📬Registration: First-come, first-served on the day (Participation fee: free) ※If you wish to participate, please speak to staff at the TAKUMI SHOP on the first floor. 📞Contact: 072-227-1001

🌸 Plum and Cherry Blossom Viewing Information at Arayama (Kouzen) Park 🌸 Arayama Park, spanning approximately 170,000 square meters, offers prime plum and cherry blossom viewing from February through April.✨ This year the plum blossoms appear to be blooming slightly later than usual, but the flowering status is being updated on Sakai City’s official website, so please check before you visit.👀 🌺 Plums (about 50 varieties, approximately 1,100 red and white plum trees) 🌸 Cherry blossoms 🚗 From February 7 to April 6, all parking lots in the park will be paid. We ask that visitors use public transportation when coming to the park. 📞 Inquiry: Izumigaoka Park Office 072-291-1800

Kintsugi Workshop 🖌️ Bring your favorite cracked or chipped dish back to life with an easy kintsugi method using putty and brass powder! 👀 📢“Himo Tokeba Sakai: Exploring the Mysteries of Sakai 2025” 🎉 🗓️ Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 📍Sakai Risho no Mori; held only on Saturday, March 22. Reservations open from Saturday, March 1! 🔍For details, please check the announcements on the Sakai Tourism Guide website 📬Apply: Sakai Risho no Mori reservation site 📞Inquiries: 072-260-4386

Frosty morning

Lost Landscapes

Kurama Station

Temple on a snowy day

Demonstration against Shinzo Abe's state funeral

Scenery of Someday

It was a snowfall that happened once a year #Kyoto City #Toji Temple #Five-story pagoda

🍵 Matcha experience with a golden tea bowl (seated tea ceremony)🍡 Enjoy matcha served in a golden tea bowl while seated, along with Sakai wagashi (fresh Japanese confections)✨ 📢 “Untie the Knot, Sakai: Delving into Sakai’s Mysteries 2025”🎉 🗓️ Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 📍 Sakai Rishō no Mori — reservations open from Saturday, March 1! 🔍 For details, please check the announcements on the Sakai Tourism Guide website 📬 Apply: via the Sakai Rishō no Mori reservation site 📞 Inquiries: 072-260-4386

🧵Unraveling the Mystery of the Tea Room – Hideyoshi’s Golden Tea Room and Rikyu’s Taian Sen no Rikyu, born in Sakai, perfected the tea ceremony culture 🍵 This event focuses on the tea room and features a special lecture by a curator along with an exhibition-guided tour visiting two tea rooms ✨ 📢“Untie the Cord: Exploring Sakai’s Mysteries 2025” 🎉 🗓️ Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 📍Sakai Risho no Mori; reservations open from Saturday, March 1! 🔍For details, please check the announcement on the Sakai Tourism Guide website 📬Apply via the Sakai Risho no Mori reservation site 📞Inquiries: 072-260-4386

🌼 Half a million rapeseed flowers are coming into bloom Like a yellow carpet!✨ Under the winter sky, enjoy a field of rapeseed flowers stretching as far as the eye can see♪ This week is peak viewing💕 📍 Location: Village Area Flower Fields (Hoshi Hill · Tsuki Hill) 🌿 Variety: Kanaki (Kanaki) 💛 Number of flowers: 500,000 📅 Blooming season: Now at peak – around mid-March (subject to weather) 🔍 The latest bloom updates are posted on the official Instagram ( @harvesthill_sakai )!

🔫 Special guided tour exploring the mystery of Sakai gunsmith Inoue Sekiemon! In the Edo period, Sakai was a major center for firearm production✨ This tour delves into the mystery of Sakai gunsmith Inoue Sekiemon, who inherited that history🕵️ 📢 “Untie the Threads, Uncover Sakai: Exploring Sakai’s Mysteries 2025”🎉 📅 Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 📍Teppo-kaji residence, about 8 participants per session, advance reservations accepted! 🔍 For details, please check the notices on the Sakai Tourism Guide website. 📬Application: Phone/Fax: 072-228-1501 Email: info@sakai-machiyamuseums.com

Samurai Teaceremony Zen is alive and well in traditional Japanese culture. Zen has greatly influenced traditional Japanese culture, including calligraphy, tea ceremony, and martial arts. Zen has had a great influence on traditional Japanese culture. It is also said that modern etiquette is based on the The Ogasawara school of etiquette, which is said to have become the standard of modern etiquette, is said to have been established by relating Zen manners to the lifestyle of the samurai class. #teaceremony #japanesetea #calligraphy #wabisabi

SamuraiCalligraphy 戦国時代、世を死と隣り合わせに駆け抜けたサムライとその妻たちが、死に際（死を覚悟）に儚くも美しい書を遺した。 During the Warring States period, samurai and their wives, who ran through the world side by side with death, left behind ephemeral but beautiful calligraphy on their deathbeds (prepared to die). #SamuraiCalligraphy Deathbed calligraphy is something a person writes down with a brush as their last words in this world when they foresee their death and look back on their life so far. #shodo #kanji

Samurai become  For those of us living in today's busy world, learning about the samurai spirit can give us insight into our attitude, attention and focus, and foster the determination needed to achieve our goals to the best of our ability. We must not only carefully consider the words of the Samurai, but we must also act on them. #katana #samuraisword #bushido

Bushido Samurai are born aware of their "honor" The goal of the aspiring samurai was not wealth or knowledge, but honor. Honor is a goal to be pursued "within oneself," without regard to profit or loss. Therefore, "honor" that is concerned with public reputation is not real honor. 〜I have found that bushido means to die〜

SAMURAI Armor Samurai fought fair and square in one-on-one battles, which was the samurai way of fighting. During this time, it was not acceptable for the adversary to initiate a fight. If they did, they were considered "cowards. #osakacastle #samurai #calligraphy #teaceremony #katana

A cold snap hits the Tsukigase Plum Valley Plum Festival! The plum blossoms haven’t opened yet, but a spectacular bloom of snow flowers has appeared ❄️ Photo: Yasuki Okamoto

Masterpiece One piece to buy in Japan

Tsukigase Plum Valley Plum Festival is now underway! At Romantopia Tsukigase, Yumekko Cafeteria is open♪ At Romantopia Tsukigase, enjoy the proud "irori set" cooked over a sunken hearth: you grill Tsukigase-grown log shiitake mushrooms, homemade konnyaku, and yomogi rice dumplings over charcoal yourself! Cover them generously with our special yuzu miso and enjoy♪ We also recommend our udon dishes, made with carefully prepared dashi broth!! The meat udon features Iga beef plus shiitake, spinach, and thinly sliced mochi for a luxurious bowl! We carry many souvenirs not only from Tsukigase but from neighboring areas as well! A cold snap has arrived, so the plum blossoms still haven't opened much yet... For now, food beats flowers♪ When the blossoms are at their peak, every teahouse gets extremely crowded! Come now for the food while you can♪

Spring has finally arrived in the southern part of Wakayama Prefecture. The flowers in the plum grove in Tanabe City also bloomed for 5~6 minutes, and bees were flying around. I took a picture of one of the seven herbs of Spring, Hotokenoza, in the foreground.

Honoring the Samurai girl The more onago is bullshit, the more the world will be bullshit. The stronger you are, the calmer you will be.  The more you can hang your head and bow low, the more genuine nobility and strength you will acquire. #osakacastle #samuraigirl #harakiri #bushido #katana

In Hinomotoichi's Calligraphy Trial Plan, students do not pick up a brush and start writing immediately after the lesson begins. Instead, we begin by explaining about the culture of calligraphy and the history of calligraphy in Japan. This is because it helps them to better understand the difference between Japanese calligraphy and caligraphy, which is a form of character decoration that also exists in other countries, and to appreciate the beauty of the Japanese language. #calligraphy #kanji #shodo

Samurai become For those of us living in today's busy world, learning about the samurai spirit can give us insight into our attitude, attention and focus, and foster the determination needed to achieve our goals to the best of our ability. We must not only carefully consider the words of the Samurai, but we must also act on them #samuraisword #katana

Held in Events to the Osaka-Kansai Expo, which is only 50 days away from the opening! Implementation plans to exhibit and sell in advance of the contents of Osaka Week together with local governments along the Kintetsu Line! 【Overview】 Date & Time: Saturday, February 22, 10 a.m. ~ 8:30 p.m. Location: Kintetsu Department Store Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store 2nd Floor Welcome Galleria In addition to Fujiidera City, Yao City, Higashiosaka City, Habikino City, and Tomitabayashi City will exhibit! *Please note that the contents of the program There are subject to change due to circumstances. Please come and visit us!

🚶‍♂️Four sightseeing tour courses! 🚲 🍵A route tracing Sen no Rikyū’s footsteps, an exploration of the moat-city’s history, a historic sites tour of the old port, and a special cycling course! 🚴 Experience Sakai’s profound history with a guided tour. ✨ 📢“Unraveling Sakai: Probing the Mysteries of Sakai 2025”🎉 📅 Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 🔍For details and applications, please check the announcements on the Sakai Tourism Guide website📬 This tour is perfect for history enthusiasts and anyone who wants to learn more about Sakai! We look forward to your participation✨