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Umi no Sachi, Yama no Sachi (海の幸と山の幸) Part 2

09/26/201909/26/2019 Toru 0 Comments animal, arrow, fish, fishhook, gift, happiness, harvest, mountain, produce, product, sea, tool

Umi no Sachi, Yama no Sachi Part 2 海の幸、山の幸 Part 2 This entry is continuation of yesterday’s post. 今日は昨日の投稿の続きです。 Yesterday,

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Umi no Sachi, Yama no Sachi (海の幸と山の幸) Part 1

09/25/2019 Toru 0 Comments autumn, chestnut, fall, food, mountain, mountain products, mushroom, product, saury, sea, sea products

Umi no Sachi, Yama no Sachi Part 1 海の幸、山の幸 Part 1 Yesterday, I introduced some foods that are often eaten

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Yamawake (山分け – Dividing Equally)

09/03/2019 Toru 0 Comments benefit, crack, distribute, divide, divide equally, goods, mountain, share

Yamawake 山分け A few days ago, I introduced the term osusowake (おすそわけ), which means to distribute goods or benefits that

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Tōge (峠 – Mountain Pass)

06/04/201906/04/2019 Toru 0 Comments ancestor, down, environment, kami, mountain, mountain pass, offer, road, safety, Shinto, up, visitor, way

Tōge 峠 Mountain passes or boundaries between up and down ways are called tōge (峠). 山の上りと下りの境界のことを、日本語で「峠」と言います。 It is said that

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Monomi Yusan (物見遊山 – Sightseeing)

05/06/2019 Toru 0 Comments Buddhist term, four-character idiom, monk, mountain, place, play, see, sightseeing, temple, thing, training, Zen

Monomi Yusan 物見遊山 I would like to do Monomi Yusan (物見遊山) sometimes. たまには「物見遊山」したいものです。 Since mono (物) means “thing,” mi (見)

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Family Trip 2019

05/02/2019 Toru 0 Comments amusement park, barbecue, cruiser, dinner, Enakyō, family trip, hot spring, hotel, inn, kimono, mountain, nature, river, sheep, sheep shearing, table tennis, travel, yukata

Family Trip 2019 家族旅行2019 We are now in Enakyō (恵那峡 – “Ena Gorge”) on a family trip. 私は今、家族旅行で恵那峡に来ています。 First, we

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Mountain Climbing Alone

08/18/2018 Toru 0 Comments climbing, exercise, hiking, mountain, view

Mountain Climbing Alone 一人登山 Today I woke up early and tried to climb Mountain Hinode alone. 今日は早起きし、一人で日の出山を登りに行きました。 Since it takes

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Traffic Jams at Midnight

08/11/2018 Toru 0 Comments bon, car, expressway, holiday, midnight, mountain, parents, rest area, return home, Tokyo, traffic jam

Traffic Jams at Midnight 深夜の渋滞 Today is the Japanese national holiday called ‘Yama no Hi’ (山の日 – literally “Mountain Day”).

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Yamayama (山々 – Mountains)

07/27/2018 Toru 0 Comments beef, desire, feeling, mountain

Yamayama 山々 “Yama” (山) means “mountains,” and the kanji 々 means a repetition of the last character. 「山」は “mountain,” 漢字「々」は直前の漢字の繰り返しを意味します。

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