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 #2: Food and the rest

Continue my photo travel journal to Hokkaido, this entry is about Hokkaido's delicious food, streets, people and so on.
Hokkaido has both the sea and mountain, so it is famous for not only fresh fruits and vegetables, but also seafood!!!!
First, at Chitose airport, I had ice-cream which I swear one of the most delicious ice-creams I've ever had in my life!!!

Cute~

Then, I came to Sapporo - main city of Hokkaido prefecture. Its famous dish is ramen ( Japanese style of noodles origin from China)

(It's now mid-night in Japan and seeing these pictures made me hungry *cry* T__T )

I've also been to a Izakaya (Japanese bar) in Sapporo and had seafood there.

Next day I went to Okura - a port city. There I had the most tasty SUSHI in my life >_<. I did enjoy them so much that I forgot to take photos T_T

Corn tea that is only sold in Hokkaido 

drink made from kind of berries of Hokkaido

cheese cake was delicious too because they had many farms there

pudding

products from milk are loved there <3

And some cute animals ^o^

alpaca <3

so cute ><

at Asahi Yama zoo 

*I'm boring* haha

Final day, I went to Hakodate and had a "local" seafood meal there.

melon 

The above photo is octopus's legs which were still moving when I was served T___T. I couldn't eat all of them because I was scared of the thought that they would be moving in my mouth and my stomach >__<

Last thing I ate in Hokkado was ice-cream, again. Felt so sad to leave there ...

Hope you enjoy the entry. If you are going to travel to Japan and have any questions just ask! I'd love to read your comments.

See you again in my next post, maybe it will be about traveling in Autumn ^_^
Good night, from Japan (*'▽'*)♪