Aug.28, 2012: FURUSATOBUNKAZAINOMORI

The governmental education and awareness building activity: FORESTS for Japan's Cultural Heritages－Preservation of Cultural Material

Aug.28, 2012: KOJINOMORI

Governmental forestation to get giant trees for cultural assets with the volunterees' help.

Aug.28, 2012: Giant tree depletion problem

Japanese 4,000 wooden cultural assets have been encountering giant tree depletion.

Aug. 14, 2912: Syncrezitation of Shinto between Buddhism

Why and how such a phenomenon unique to Japan appeared?

June 20, 2012: Hi conifers, where are you from?

Where the conifers are from and how they have prevailed in Japan, focusing on the 3 typical and popular conifers: pine, Japanese cedar, and Japanese cypress.

May 25, 2012: Differences of love for trees between Westerners & Japanese

Remarkable differences in their preferences for tree pieces between Westerners and Japanese.

Feb.20, 2012: Self-discovery: The forests and Japanese

Enjoy your journey of self-detection in Nara!

Feb. 18, 2012: Ponzu, Japanese citrus-based soy sauce

How to make ponzu?

Feb.10, 2012: Nabe-ryori, or Japanese hot pot dishes

How to cook, and how to enjoy Nabe-ryori.

Mar.23, 2011: Wooden Buddhist statue materials

Enjoy in Nara the intercommunication of man with nature: those wild material woods and the masterpieces made of them.

Sep.23, 2010: All-you-can-eat restaurant in Nara

Enjoy many different kinds of all-you-can-eat dish in Nara.

Sep.20, 2010: Moon viewing

Although the Chinese people started this event and introduced it into Japan, it's Japan's own custom to offer pampas grass, rice dumplings, fruit & vegetables while viewing the moon. The ears of pampas grass have been thought to be the symbol of fall in Japan since the old days. People say that rice damplings came to be offered to the moon because they are similar in shape to the full moon. Be care the event date changes every year accoprding to the full moon date.

July 14, 2010: Taro and Lucky Music

Taro is really a nice polyhedral guy: music, language.....

June 26, 2010: The Buddhist Memorial Services

The bereaved enshrine the soul of the dead, while putting up with the agony.

June 19, 2010: The Christian hymn No.21-493

I think the crucial difference between Christian ideal and Buddhist ideal is that: "love in Christianity" indicates love for a particular person, while "compassion, or jihi, in Buddhism" represents one's friendship with all people, not with a particular person.

April 16, 2010: A Requiem for my late wife

My wife, Shoko, passed away suddenly on Mar.19, 2010 at the age of 65 due to acute heart failure.
I don't think that our relationship which lasted 40 years is fragile even in the case of her demise.
See you in the next world, Shoko.

Mar.19, 2010: Let's enjoy cherry-blossom viewing in Nara: strolling to your nearby site

In Nara there're many famous cherry-blossom viewing sites such as Mt.Yoshino, nice spot to visit, however, I would here prefer to tell you nearby good places to enjoy it.

Mar.17, 2010: In Pursuit of the Idealism of Japanese Buddhism

Japanese Buddhism has got to differ significantly from the original one. Well, how about the denial of desires?

Mar.9, 2010: Free services in Japan

Weekly Diamond Vol.98 on Mar.13, 2010 introduced typical free services in Japan.

Mar.6, 2010: Japanese Buddhism looks as if it were indigenous

Buddhism was founded in India and introduced through China and Korea to Japan, and it took in Japan's substratum indigenous religious sense: equality, endless cycle of life and death, and a set of a recited Mass & Ancestor worship, which featured Japanese Buddhism.