A couple of days ago, a professional Japanese baseball team's coach redesigned because of his domestic violence. He was arrested in front of his daughters. At first, he wanted to stop his daughters'

One day, my British friend Martyn, his daughter Anna, my husband, and I visited a sake brewery where our son-in-law has been working. He'll become the head sake brewer after the current brewer

Every November, I buy some red onion seedlings and plan them in several containers. Last year, I planted fifty. They grew slowly even during winter. This winter was especially cold, and it snowed

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an art exhibit in Kyoto. It was on a Saturday, so the museum was very crowed. I regretted to choose that day. I don't enjoy looking at artwork with lots of people

The other day, my husband and I introduced traditional Japanese kaiseki cuisine to my British friend Martyn and his daughter Anna. Kaiseki originated as a light meal served before the tea ceremony,

It has passed six years since I started growing roses. Every year I added new rose bushes, and now I have more than thirty varieties. I've already showed some of them on my journal entries, but I'd

If you could sneak in a historical scene and experience it as if you were there, what would you do? I think it would be so much fun! You could become a witness of the historical moment. A couple of

Martyn, Anna and I visited Heian Shrine after visiting Kiyomizu Temple. In that area, there are several art museums, so I used to go there quite often, but it was my first time visiting the shrine in

I've been busy harvesting strawberries and chamomiles every morning. Last year, my chamomile harvest was poor, but the plants dropped seeds, so some sprouts have started growing. I didn't sow seeds,

After visiting Kiyomizu Temple, Martyn, Anna and I stopped by a sweet shop for a snack. Anna is a vegetarian, and Martyn told me that in the UK, rice cakes includes gelatin, so she can't eat them.

Last week, I was very excited to meet my British friend, Martyn, for the first time since I visited him two years ago. I was heading to our meeting spot in Kyoto. Unfortunately, the train I was on

A couple weeks ago, I attended an art exhibit featuring Yumeji Takehisa who is one of my favorite Japanese artists, so I was really looking forward to it. When I visited Okayama Prefecture with my

I have some good friends all over the world. Most of them are from the porcelain world, but some of them are my language partners. My British friend and his daughter had been visiting us for a while,

Last week, we celebrated our grandson's birthday at a crab restaurant. To be honest, I wanted to have the party at home, but our puppy is still hard to control, so we decided to celebrate outside the

Rose season has arrived! I've been busy taking care of my own roses while also visiting some rose gardens. Today, I'd like to share a rose garden near my house that my husband and I visited a couple

Are you interested in history? When I was a student, I didn't like it. I was better at math or science, but now I'm curious about history. A couple of days ago, I came across some interesting YouTube

A Japanese snack company announced that it'll change its colorful packages into black and white because of a shortage of printing materials. Japan has been directly affected by the conflict involving

I'm busy picking strawberries every morning, but I've been enjoying my new routine. I've been growing them in 12 pots, so I need to check each of them very carefully. If I miss picking any, they'll

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I visited the oldest botanical garden at Kasuga-taisha. There are over 200 wisteria plants in the garden, and I was very excited because wisteria is one of my

I'd been working on a pair of mittens and finally finished. Their pattern is the same as the one I used for my previous project, a cap. It was my first time knitting a pair of mittens in a couple