Peony - king of flowers. ボタンシーズンの写真

Good evening from Japan~ 

The peony is among the longest-used flowers in Eastern culture and is one of the smallest living creature national emblems in China. Along with the plum blossom, it is a traditional floral symbol of China, and is used symbolically in Chinese art.In Japan, peony is called 牡丹 - ぼたん (Botan) or 牡丹の花. It is also considered as the "King of Flowers" or the "Prime Minister of Flowers."

Last week I had a chance to visit a peony garden in Ueno. The garden is located inside Toshogu shrine （東照宮神社）. It is very common in Japan that many flower gardens are developed inside a shrine, and as new season comes, every body goes to seeing those.

Sakura season has ended one month ago. In Japan, thinking of May it's rose season!!! But it hasn't started yet, may be from middle of May...

But, we have peonies (*'▽'*)♪. Let me show you some photos I took at peony garden !

I thought that peony is rose-relatives, but am I wrong?

Pink, white...

Can you image how big the flowers are?

one of my favorite photos

Yae-sakura, its name?

beautiful color, right?

the garden is decorated with big umbrella, adding more romantic and traditional sense

Finally, let me introduce my buddy: Minolta srt 101 film camera!! It's really heavy

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Very first shots with film camera

Hello from Japan,

Today is Monday, the day is said to be hated most in one week because it ends the weekend and everybody has to go to work :)

But it's now one of the "biggest" holidays in Japan (which actually means national holidays + weekend = a LONG off-day). It's called "Golden Week" in Japan, although the "golden" part has no history or culture meaning at all (≧∇≦)

Yeah after finishing job-hunting I'm taking quite a long break before coming back to school. To kill my free time I has just started some projects with DIY, fabric and film camera.

Film camera is very new to me. Actually I bought my film camera Minolta srt101 last year's winter and took some shots, but because of my stupidness (and carelessness), I spoiled the film and all photos taken has gone forever (´；ω；｀)

I'm very careful this time, and here's the result: took 24 shots, all good. But only 10 shots were good enough to show to somebody... So...(;_;)

If you have any experience about choosing films or taking photos with film camera, please share!!! 

Thanks and enjoy ～　(*'▽'*)♪

late Tulip...

little spring

From somewhere above the clouds

Tokyo station

Tokyo station night shot

long for summer

Mango-chan my model

Good night~

Tadaima! - I'm back

"Tadaima" means "I'm back" in Japanese.

And, yes I'm back!!!!!!
I mean I didn't really post anything like say-goodbye entry or something, but I realized that I've left my blog for so long to focus on my job-hunting.

In Japan, there is so-called "job-hunting season" starting from December of the third school year. From that time until you graduate, you have more than one year to prepare for finding a job, getting one, and enjoying your last moments at university.

It involves in so many company seminars, interviews, online as well as written tests, along with black suits, black hair, stresses, tears and so on.

Thanks for everybody's support, I received job offer last week. That was such a good news to me during 5 months long. It also means that I can stop every job-hunting things to focus on WHAT I WANT TO DO!
Yeah that means I will start working from next year's April, which sounds not really fun, huh? Actually I has been thinking a lot about whether to become an OL (office lady - similar meaning with salary man in Japanese haha), or do my little shop. Finally I chose to do both lol. I will try to be a good OL and study new things as an "shakaijin", as well as take care of this blog and my future shop ^_^

Anyway, here are some cherry blossom photos,"hello, I'm back" greetings for everybody.

And, thank God it's Springggggggggggggg

Hope you enjoy spring and I'll be back soon with latest entry about shop's new items ^0^

[Traveling journal] Hokkaido #1 Nature &Landscape

I know it's quite weird to post a summer traveling entry in this winter time. But coldness these days made me miss the summer's warm (actually hot) days a lot. That's why I decided to bring a little warm sunshine into these cold days by recalling my summer travel to Hokkaido, Japan.

Hokkaido in the summer is really cool and I did enjoy it so much. It is surrounded by such beautiful nature that every body feel relaxed after working days in Tokyo. That's why Hokkaido is one of the places that Japanese people want to travel most.

 I took too many photos to show you guys all in one entry. Therefore, in this entry please enjoy Hokkaido's nature <3

Hokkaido from airplane

Sapporo - Hokkaido's main city

Hokkaido university - a beautiful and large university (didn't understand why there were sheep in uni?)lol

summer memory

little daisy

Hokkaido is full of valley and large farms

it's me lol

cosmos

late lavender

Hakodate - a city famous for its night landscape

Are there too many photos? I hope you enjoy them ^_^.
Really miss summer, don't you?