Recommendation of Unique Japanese Products and Culture
Product Introduction through My Daily Life in Japan
Salt has been used to preserve foods from ancient times.It prevents the food from rotting because it has a sterilizing action, but have you ever heard that Japanese use salt in the different ways for...
Centering on the spring equinox and autumnal equinox, a traditional week-long seasonal event is held in Japan.That is Ohigan (お彼岸). Ohigan is a Buddhist event exclusively held by Japanese sects, during which we have a...
Summer is upon us.Now here in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the temperature has reached over 30 degrees Celsius.The hotter it gets, the more cold things or the ones that give pleasant cooling sensation attract me. When it comes...
In Japan, when a mother makes a bento as the lunch that her kid has at school, she sometimes makes rice balls as staple foods, together with side dishes. Besides, if you go shopping...
The other day, I wrote about the type of Shinto shrines.As I explained in the article, there are broadly 6 types of Shinto shrines in Japan, and the most common type is the Shinto...
Shito (神道) is the native religion of Japan.The Japanese religion doesn’t have either scriptures or teachings or even any founders, but it has a religious culture based on polytheism such as the eight million gods,...
Have you ever heard that we Japanese eat the sticky red-colored rice steamed with Azuki beans in celebration of something?The Japanese red rice is called Sekihan (赤飯), which literally means red rice. For example,...
The summer season is approaching day by day in Japan.Now here in Niigata Prefecture, the temperature is going up to 27 degrees Celsius. When it comes to Japanese summer traditions, fireworks displays are the essential...
