New Years Eve celebrations in Holland are as divers as the people, but with the recent economical situation a lot of people go back to old traditions like having the party at home, watching TV or playing boardgames together. My sister-in-law Inge, my son Roland and niece Esmee. ... Continue Reading
On Sunday, yesterday, we bicyled to Enoshima, which is a small island near Kamakura and famous for her goddess of Music and Entertainment, Benzaiten, who is enshrined on the island and who is said to have made it rise from the bottom of the sea in the sixth century. It was a bea ... Continue Reading
Last week, there was a festival “Matsuri” at our neighborhood temple (YOU TUBE video), the Komyoji. Every year they have an event at the temple called Ojuya, which means a Buddhist memorial service for the repose of the dead for 3 days. The temple belongs to the Jodo ... Continue Reading
We stayed at the Nan-in, the center temple of all festivities: meetings, eating, sleeping and performing art events. The Buddhist service started every morning at 6.30am and after that we had breakfast. At 9am we had a staff meeting. Ayako-san and Shinobu-san , the founders of Ha ... Continue Reading
Happy maker is an art festival in which works of different genres can be experienced while walking around Koya town. Many events have been organized for both adults and children. It’s exhibition space is Mount Koya which has a long history of artists. Beautiful art on folding s ... Continue Reading
The “zaimoku” in the name Zaimokuza means “lumber,” and the “za” generally means a guild of merchants and artisans who did business under the patronage of the large shrines, and temples in the Kamakura (1185/92-1333) and Muromachi periods (1335 ... Continue Reading
On New Years Eve we also went to the Hongakuji temple on our way back home. This temple is beautifully decorated with lighted lamps “akachochin” (red lamps) and “shirochochin” (white lamps). This is the Ebisu-do Hall built by the 1st shogun Minamoto Yorit ... Continue Reading
Today, I went to the Tableware Festival in Tokyo Dome. Like last year, again so many beautiful table settings and so much choice of ceramic ware. And then in combination with the interior of a dining room and especially also, ikebana, flower pieces. All very beautiful. Here is a ... Continue Reading
There were wonderful table settings at the Tableware Festival 2007 in Tokyo Dome. This one is the Autumn table setting. I like the warm feeling of it. The Lilly table setting. The Rose table setting. The Japanese Scroll table setting. A beautiful Oribe plate. Then there wer ... Continue Reading
So, in the afternoon, I went to Tokyo Dome to the Tableware Festival 2007. It was astonishing and so much to see. Yo Thom’s work. Her website: http://www.yothom.com Euan Craig’s work. Look also on my blog in the month of July for more of his work. http://www.d1.di ... Continue Reading
