【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Morning glory was brought from China to Japan in the Nara period (710 - 794). Many gardeners started raising and breeding...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Japan has some endemic species of lily. Dietary habit of eating roots of lily dates from Yayoi period (B.C. 300 - A. D....

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 ●Happiness in Rainy Blue● In Japan, June is not only the season of the Tsuyu (rainy season), but also of the hydrangea....

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Time of spring flowers ended and relay of flowers is now moving toward green season of early summer. Yamabuki; it is...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 According to an old lunar calendar, today is the day of “Honnoji no Hen”*1. Nobunaga Oda (1534-1582) is well-known...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 I saw his name and paintings for the first time during my visit of Kakunodate, Akita prefecture. Also, learned the word...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Back in 1863, the mission of samurais returned from western Europe and brought bulbs of tulips to their motherland....

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 This is a story about discord of Minamoto brothers*1 back in 1185. Yoritomo (the first Shogun who founded Kamakura...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Compared to other flowers, wisteria doesn’t take up water well. Therefore, sake is added to water when we arrange...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Especially, samurai families used “Hana Shobu“ to celebrate “Boy’s Day*” because shape of leaf looks like samurai sword....

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Hyakunincho-cho is located very close to Today’s Shinjuku where you see many skyscrapers. Long time ago, this town was...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Same as cherry blossoms, chrysanthemum is considered as national flowers of Japan. Chrysanthemum is the family crest of...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 Received the picture of beautiful Ikebana work from Italian guests who took Ikebana lesson at my house last year. His...

【日本語版は英語版のあとです】 The new category “Column of flowers” is added to this blog. Besides pictures of flower works, I want to write about short...