The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » How to prepare for Hanami Sakura, the Japanese cherry blossom, is a miracle that happens over night! While the whole nation impatiently watches the Sakura-forecast on the news every night (When is it going to hit my town? Tomorrow or next week? When do I have to take a weekend off? Will it rain a lot this year or will it be warm???) written by Uleshka Hanami – watching flowers along the Meguro river Millions of Sakura songs, stories, paintings, Kimono patterns… have been inspired by this very flower. at the big variety of Sakura goods you can find around the stores. Sakura umbrellas – protecting from rain and too much sun Hanami – literally meaning flower viewing – is all about sitting outside under the beautiful cherry trees, meeting friends and family, drinking, eating, singing and having fun. All you need for outside: protecting masks against hayfever For some outside means hayfever! sheets for picnic under cherry trees festive decoration Decorating with Sakura There are tons of other decoration goods, too.
Nautiljon Aujourd'hui la Corée | Corée Information Japon Weird Le Monde.fr - Actualité à la Une The Transit Lounge Weekly Teinou 蜂 Woman Why people can’t say I’m a proper adult With today being Children’s Day in Japan, I present a survey that is sort-of connected to the theme, a look with goo Ranking at hidden secrets that prevent people rating themselves as proper adults, for both men and women. Demographics Between the 23rd and 25th of March 2009 1,043 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 52.2% of the sample were male, 7.8% in their teens, 17.1% in their twenties, 28.2% in their thirties, 24.8% in their forties, 11.4% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. With these silly goo Rankings I do occasionally get creative with my translation, and I get some feedback from my readers about my less than literal translations, but I hope that since these surveys are just a bit of fun, any creativity (or flat-out errors) can be excused. Ranking results
Checking out your Japanese girlfriend’s room goo Ranking recently took a look at what people would want to check out the first time they visited their partner’s room, for both women checking out their boyfriends and men checking out their girlfriends. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of August 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were male, 8.4% in their teens, 14.2% in their twenties, 26.7% in their thirties, 28.2% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 11.2% aged sixty or older. It is interesting to note that many of the answers seem to centre around checking out that your partner is not already attached – I don’t really know what the motivation for that is. I also haven’t a clue what’s behind sniffing your partner’s pillow, and I don’t really think I want to know! As a cross-reference, perhaps, last year I looked at scary home life of friends of the opposite sex. Ranking result