The O-Bon or Bon only (the O is an honorary prefix) is a Buddhist feast to honor the ancestors and also to ease the suffering of those in hell. However, O-Bon has also developed into a family festival, in which all of them meet and celebrate. The graves are also visited and specially well-kept.Continue Reading
Shizuoka – Kunōzan Tōshō-gū
Yesterday on 11.08 was a new national holiday, the mountain day. On this day the mountains are to be paid attention. There is also a same UN day of holiday, but it has nothing to do with it, and the Japanese who asked me could not tell me exactly why it really exists.
So I went to the mountain that day to celebrate him…
OK, I would have gone there without the day, but rather because of what is there and that is the Shinto shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu (family / clan name, first name).Continue Reading
Hanabi
Hanabi means fireworks, but at the same time it has a much larger and stronger meaning. Hanabi is deeply rooted in Japanese culture. It belongs to the summer here that there are fireworks. Not just a few, but many and large. A colleague had problems to imagine a summer without fireworks when I told that in Germany there is actually only New Year’s fireworks, apart from a few exceptions. The Japanese fireworksContinue Reading
Shizuoka – Excavation Toro
Last weekend I was too busy to do something because of a lot of presentations and a after work party of my research group. After that, I was still very long time with some colleagues at a Karaoke bar. Karaoke is partly already known in Germany Here in the country of origin it is almost impossible not to find a karaoke bar. They are not everywhere
Rainy season and storm Nanmadol
As perhaps already noticed, I write less of places I have visited. This is mainly on the one hand that I lack time, but on the other hand also that it is just getting hotter here with quite high humidity. Since it makes now no fun to walk longer distances over a long time.
For this time: I had the pleasure of getting to know the Japanese rainy season. This is actually an exaggeration.The rainy season is here in ShizuokaContinue Reading
Culture 2
Since I tried last weekend with Japanese colleagues to bake German apple pie, because ingredients are difficult to get and I have in the dorm only the microwave oven, I had no time / interest to write something, so I will today write a little what I noticed about cultural things or what is perhaps also typical for Japan. First of all, I must say that I hadn’t a cultural shock. Japan or at least this area here is totally Continue Reading
Japan Climate
This time I will tell something about the climate and temperatures here. Since Japan is very long, it also has different climate zones. It is also exposed to both continental and pacific Continue Reading
Food 3
Because everything goes through the stomach or at least hits him, there is today a small selection of dishes which are possible here.Continue Reading
Mount Kunō – Bamboo forest
Since this time I was very busy and just want to relax, there is this time just a small article differently than planned. The others will follow in a foreseeable future. Today, I only deliver a few impressions of Continue Reading
Shizuoka – Mount Kunō part 1
Yesterday I explored the mountain Kunō. For which I will need several days, as it spans such a large area. At its highest point, it should be 216 m high. From my map I knew that there are paths with which I can cross parts of the mountain and Continue Reading