💙Spring in Japan 2023🦋
A blue harmony created by 5.4 million Nemophila, the sky, and the sea at Hitachi Seaside Park. 🌷🦋
Tulips are fully blooming and nemophila are 80% bloom; check the link for full details.
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"A Stroll in a Japanese Garden", ca. 1900, by British painter Ella Du Cane (1874-1943) who is best known for her watercolours of landscapes and exotic locales - including China, Japan, Egypt, the Canary Islands and Madeira.
I have only left Japan a couple of times in the last four years… Each time, I can’t wait for my return. Japan will always be my home no matter where I reside 💕✨
"Snow Country children going to a New Year's event, covered in straw capes to protect them from the weather", Niigata, Japan, 1956, by Hamaya Hiroshi (濱谷 浩, 1915 –1999), a Japanese photographer active from 1935 to 1999. Hamaya was well known for his photographs of rural Japan.
"Love Letter" (恋文), 1980, by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島 潔, born 1943), a contemporary Nihonga painter, picture book author, and illustrator, who specialises in nostalgic children's paintings and ephemeral women's paintings. He is often referred to as "the painter of the wind."
Before dropping my parents off at the airport I made them Japanese egg salad sandwiches and homemade Hokkaido milk bread 😊 I use the steamer basket in my rice cooker to make soft-boiled eggs!
Kawase Hasui (川瀬 巴水, 1883–1957), Evening at Tago Bay (Tago no ura no yûbe), from the series Selected Views of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô fûkei senshû) 東海道風景選集「田子之浦の夕」, 1940
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Though he never visited Washington, in 1935, Japanese artist Kawase Hasui was commissioned to create a print he called “Washington Monument (Potomac Riverbank).” A copy is in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. 🌸✨
Matsumoto Castle Illuminated
From December 1st to February 28th, enjoy dazzling illuminations around Matsumoto City, including nightly projection mappings on Matsumoto Castle.
The brilliant displays will show this national treasure castle in a whole new light!
'Snow at the Shrine Entrance, Hakone Gongen', 1949, by Kawase Hasui (川瀬 巴水, 18 May, 1883 – 7 November, 1957), who was one of the most prominent print designers of the shin-hanga (new prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan.
The location is in Kanagawa Prefecture.
I absolutely love living in
#Japan
, but it’s also great to get to see my family in # Michigan #ミシガン州 once in a great while…
@Sharaku469
it’s the best of both worlds 😊 🇯🇵 🇺🇸