The Way of the Brush 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 fullest. #kangi #calligraphy #kimono #osakacastle

Summer in Japan never lets you down, although it's humid. The lush green nature, the sound of cicadas and wind chimes, light breeze, beautiful sunsets, and peaceful life make summer here calm and soulful. The vibrant and magnificent fresh green view from Furano are a of Hokkaido

This is the Asakusa Samba Carnival held near Sensō-ji Temple, one of the famous samba carnival of Japan. It was really a beautiful experience. Very lively enjoyable performances.

On this day, Shokushinbo Kasai visited "Tokoro Terrace" in Shiga Akanuma, Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture. This is a very stylish shop ☕ where you can have a café and Meals in a shop that sells Famous Kanten (agar-agar) in Suwa 　Tokoro Terrace said, "Make Kanten (agar-agar) more accessible! We are sending out the ease with which customers can incorporate Kanten (agar-agar) into their daily lives. 　On this day, the person who introduced the store was Mr. Kurane, the manager. This is a factory specializing in tokoroten, and there is a shop and café next to it, so the tokoroten will be Fresh made from the factory next door!!　I don't like vinegar and soy sauce, and I've been ♪ scared since I learned about black honey because it's real zero calories (except for black honey www)!! The Kanten (agar-agar) is diverse, such as square Kanten (agar-agar) (stick Kanten (agar-agar)), thread Kanten (agar-agar), and powdered Kanten (agar-agar), There is a it is a multiplayer Kanten (agar-agar) that can be added to rice, miso soup, and salads!　When I was a child, on the day of the school lunch of mandarin orange milk Kanten (agar-agar), I was a student who couldn't wait and wandered around the serving room of the school lunch room.　It also provides dietary fiber and does not interfere with other ingredients, so it is the "Shohei Otani of the food world" who is active in main dishes, appetizers, and desserts!!　On this day, the gluttonous Kasai found a Kanten (agar-agar) of 100 bottles, and it seems that there are people who buy it several times a year!!　It was a surprising amount and a masterpiece www 　At the café, Restrooms available Tokoroten, cream Anmitsu (sweet bean jam) (popular No. 1), soft serve ice cream, and even the Popular pudding, which uses the Kanten (agar-agar) as an ingredients. lunch (11:00 – 14:00) is also Restrooms available, and the salad with Kanten (agar-agar) added to the appetizer enhances the deliciousness of the main dish! It is easy for men to enter, and there are counter seats, so you can 🍴 easily enjoy a café or lunch. Along with sweets, you can also enjoy coffee using beans from Matsumoto's Yuigahama Coffee, so please ☕ join us　 The shop itself is all barrier-free, so you can enter the store with peace of mind even in a car, and it seems that there are many customers who come to the café with three generations, grandmothers, mothers, and grandchildren, and enjoy it at the café. 　How about as a souvenir in Suwa? ◎ Tokoro Terrace 📍 1545-1 Shiga, Suwa City (5 minutes by car from Suwa IC towards Lake Suwa Lake, 40 🅿 cars) ☎0266-52-1056 ◎ Business hours: 10:00 ~ 18:00 ・ Shop business hours... 10:00 ～ 18:00 ・ Cafe business hours... 10:00 ~ 17:00 (Lunch time 11:00 ~ 14:30) ◎Regular holiday : Closed on Thursdays, year-end and New Year holidays (12/31~1/2) ◎ Restrooms available is also available.

Nouvelle Plum Grove Suwa (Sweets House Nouvel) 　 On this day, Shokushinbo Kasai visited the Nouvelle Plum Grove Suwa store (Sweets House Nouvel). It's such a famous store that "there is no one who doesn't know it in the Suwa City area"! The exterior is stylish and reminiscent of a candy house as the name suggests. Among the Nouvelles, the mainstay "Kurumi Yamabiko" is a Gastronomical delicacies that Kasai also loves. A special walnut caramel that is slowly simmered using Fresh milk from Shinshu Yatsugatake mountain foothills is wrapped in a crispy cookie. The cookies around it are not sweet, and the walnut caramel inside is moderately sweet, and the balance with the wrapped cookies is excellent!!　This is really unstoppable deliciousness. Except for my eldest son and second daughter, who are allergic to nuts, the entire family, including my parents, is a big fan www This hit product of Plum Grove is said to be a Traditional Japanese straw raincoat parent by the current president!　Restrooms available for the most delicious walnuts and mabiko!　It was released in 1985 and is now in its 39th year!! The person who responded on this day was Mr. Yudazaka, the chief of the Administration Department. According to the story, Plum Grove seems to have a strong desire to "use Local ingredients and materials". And did you know that there are store-only sweets that can only be found in each store? That's it here ↓ ・ Suwa store → cream puff ・Okaya Main Store → Waffles ・ Shimo Suwa store → Oyster ice / pie (common to all stores custard pie + lower Suwa limited original flavor) ・ Chino store → soft serve ice cream Also available at the Okaya store (Yamabiko Soft is limited to Chino) ・ Cheesecake seems to be a store-only sweet that can only be found in each store, so please come and visit us! Following in the footsteps of "Kurumi Yamabiko" is "Suwa no Tsuki". Here, the walnut caramel inside is the same as walnuts and mabiko, but even if you mix white bean paste here and eat walnuts and mabiko, it is Popular with elderly people who have difficulty swallowing! It seems that the fact that by mixing white bean paste, it is easier to cut and clear the throat than walnuts and mabiko, which is a proof of its popularity!　It's a great ingenuity, isn't it? It was a story that showed a glimpse of evidence of its popularity among all. In the top three is Suwakurumi Caramel!! Suwa→Karin, Shimo Suwa→Manji Stone Buddha, Okaya → Silkworm, Chino → Jomon Venus, started with four, but Haramura, Fujimi was eager to manufacture them, and Haramura→ celery and Fujimi →Tomatoes were born, and the characters of Town/Village six neighboring cities were all available. The red ruby of the Fujimi Highlands actually has a secret story of its birth. In fact, at the Tokyo Olympics, a Tomatoes made by students of the horticulture department of Fuji Midaka School was decided to pass the judging, but as you know, the Held in was delayed by one year, right?! Then, when the president learned of the Tomatoes of a student who had nowhere to go, he said, "Let's use it as a material for Highlands rubies!! One word. It's numbing, isn't it? It is still being traded today. This kind of thinking about the president's "things of the earth" has created a blockbuster product!! That's what I think. 　Lastly, Mr. Yudazaka's recommendation, which we talked to on this day, is "Kokko Sable First Thing in the Morning"!　The egg is a simple sable using fresh eggs raised by the people of Yatsugatake Central Agricultural Practical College in Haramura, and although it is soft, it is a sable that retains the firm Butter feeling of the sable. For the gluttonous Kasai, the best walnuts and mabiko are recommended!!　I learned about it for the first time, but it sells the original form after manufacturing and before cutting. It comes in a wooden box, comes with a special knife, etc. A dream-like product 🌟 I think that if no one saw it, it would be stuck as it is www Here, it seems that several films come out a year!! I wonder if I'll buy it as a birthday present ~ 🎶 It's an unbearable Gastronomical delicacies for walnuts and mabiko lovers! 　 Nouvelle Plum Grove's products are very appreciated as "Souvenirs". Some sweets are made with motifs from the Suwa region and some use things from the Suwa region. If my family were to take Souvenirs, Nouvelle Plum Grove Hall would be the only choice w Speaking of Souvenirs of sweets that are appreciated in the Suwa region, it is "Nouvelle Plum Grove Hall".　If you come to the Suwa area or find it at a dealership, please purchase it and Gari it!! ◎ Nouvel Plum Grove Suwa store (Sweets House Nouvel) 📍 1-2556-7 Jominami, Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture ☎0266-54-7971 Business hours & Regular holiday : 10:00~19:00 Closed only on New Year's Day

The sound of wind chimes lowers the perceived temperature. But it was a 😊 hot summer Inabe City, Mie Prefecture "Kanai Shrine"

Tone River Grand Fireworks Festival Fireworks are a traditional culture that Representatives Japan. It was the first time I went to this Tone River Grand Fireworks Festival, and the night sky was lit up by 30,000 flowers, one of the largest in Japan. Ibaraki Prefecture's proud fireworks masters, Yamazaki Smoke and Fire Factory, No Village fireworks Industry, Beniya Aoki Smoke and Fire Shop, and Margaux, the four major fireworks masters one of the best in Japan, performed gorgeously, and I am grateful and grateful that this scenery seen with Kan inn Castle was born in Japan.

🎆 Tone River fireworks festival It is a fireworks festival that starts tomorrow. Restrooms available is the largest fireworks festival in the Kanto region, and 40,000 fireworks color the 🤤 night sky

The Milky Way 🌌 streams through Kawagoe This is located in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture 　　　　　　　　　Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine It is 🤤 colored like the Milky Way from August to early September every year

Red Rice and Sunset "Red Rice" when the ears of rice turn red at the end of summer Sunset sways glitteringly. Daian Towns, Inabe City, Mie Prefecture "Daan Sakura Rice"

Driving through 🚄 Tokyo This is the doctor yellow I took the other day when I passed Hamamatsu Towns 🤤 Station First Doctor Yellow! It took less than 5 seconds to pass by, it was a 😅 blink of an eye

Surrounded by 🌻 sunflower fields in full bloom This is Higashimatsuyama Agriculture and Forestry Park in Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture. Restrooms available 🤤 because the sunflowers bloom in full bloom in summer and are tall

Beninoda "Red Rice" in which rice ears turn red at the end of summer However, it seems that the red one is about a week. Compared to white Rice, it is rich in polyphenols and minerals, and is sold here as "Daan Sakura Rice". Daan Towns, Inabe City, Mie Prefecture

Dancing 💃 at the end of summer This is Awa Odori Held in in front of Minamikoshigaya Station in Saitama Prefecture. Famous as one of the three major Awa odori in Japan, a total of 600,000 people visit 🤤 for two days You'll want 🤤 to dance along to the shouts of Yatsa

Hyogo Prefecture Minamiawaji Youth Square Park It was the first place I visit, and the view from here was the best, and I had been visit Awaji for many years, but this was a hidden gem and I had never seen it on the Internet, but it was recommended by a friend and I knew for the first time that there was such a place. In a building designed by world-renowned architect Kenzo Tange in commemoration of students who died in the war I hoped that love and peace without war would continue, and that people all over the world would be able to laugh.

Minamiawaji, Hyogo Prefecture The Rural Scenery seen from the place I visited for the first time was the best Rice is quite expensive this year due to the shortage, so I hope 😌 that this Rice will be cherished forever and passed on to the future

The fresh greenery of the Torii (shrine gate) in the sky is beautiful This is Takaya Shrine in Kagawa Prefecture! It is also known as [Torii (shrine gate) in the sky]. The view of the Seto Inland Sea from here is truly spectacular 🤤

In search of coolness deep in the mountains This is Saitama prefecture Mt. Moro Town Located in Kuroyama Three Waterfalls. I went there 🤤 in search of coolness in the hot summer

Three-city joint fireworks festival 🎆 This year, the event was 🤤 held jointly by the three municipalities I was able 🤤 to see some nice fireworks at the end of summer

向日葵镑で暮れゆく色を楽しむ刻 Mie Prefectural Yokkaichi City

Iron in blue Reflection ✨ of the summer sky and the factory with a puddle Shiohama, Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture

Under the summer sky where the Hokusei Line runs, rice waiting to be harvested announces the visit of autumn. But it was hot. Inabe City, Mie Prefecture Megane Bridge

Although it is Hanachozu of Obihiro Shrine At night only for the two days of Obon It is prepared in a hand water bowl Turn on the underwater light. Hanachozu also started in May September will finally be the last.

Himawari-no-oka Park, Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture ⭕ In consideration of the children around us, we take ❗ pictures with the permission of parents and children whose faces are not visible After playing in the park, to prevent heat stroke, the children were chatting and I was making a lot of noise because my camera was soaked

Himawari-no-oka Park, Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture ⭕ In consideration of the children around us, we take ❗ pictures with the permission of parents and children whose faces are not visible After playing in the park, to prevent heat stroke, the children were chatting and I was making a lot of noise because my camera was soaked

Sunflower Hill Park in Ono, Hyogo ⭕ In consideration of the children around us, we take ❗ pictures with the permission of parents and children so that their faces are not shown After playing in the park, take precautions against heat stroke The kids were chatting and I was making a lot of noise because my camera was 😵 soaked

Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture Summer Limited Last summer vacation, I had a Horseback Riding Experience in the sea with my family I had planned and similar experience in Okinawa before, but I had given up due to time constraints, but I was able to have such a valuable experience nearby, and it became 😃 a memorable memory that can only be tasted here

Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture Summer Limited Last summer vacation, I had a Horseback Riding Experience in the sea with my 😃 family

Awaji Island, Hyogo Last summer Vacation limited It was 😃 the best summer Vacation with my family to experience horseback riding experience in the sea

Summer in Japan is refreshing and soothing. Yes, it is humid, but every season has its pros and cons. The noisy cicadas, green forests, cool breeze, and lots of fun activities make it worth it. During my visit to Okutama this summer, I enjoyed summer water activities. One of the activities I tried for the first time was canyoning, and it was so relaxing and peaceful.