Nippon Lovers

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides We will posting / reblogging about Japan's nature, food, customs & traditions, street style, poetry, quotes etc.

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Time waits for no one 

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"They say it's 5 centimeters per second... the speed at which cherry blossoms fall. It's 5 centimeters per second."

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Japanese Street Fashion

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A round window at Meigetsu-in temple

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Japan's national anthem, Kimi Ga Yo (君が代), is the world's oldest anthem. Its lyrics are based on a Waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), sung to a melody written in the later Meiji period.

Lyrics: May your reign Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, Until the pebbles Grow into boulders Lush with moss

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Morning in Yamakoshi Village

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The word that seemed the most sincere to me was not able to express my feelings

Author: Irakli Kakabadze / ｲｱｷ ｶﾍﾞ Illustration: The Nocturne for Sorrow by Shinobu Tanno

სიტყვა, რომელმაც ვერ გამოთქვა ჩემი სათქმელი, ყველაზე სუფთა და გულწრფელი მეგულებოდა ...

ავტორი: იაკი კაბე ილუსტრაცია:  "ღამის პეიზაჟი მწუხარებისათვის", შინობუ ტანნო

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Hakone Shrine

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Japanese Beauty In the Photo: Kō Shibasaki

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Eihei-ji Temple

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Kiwi vine and white roses, Ikebana

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February 11: National Foundation Day (建国記念の日 Kenkoku Kinen no Hi) 

Japan annually celebrates the foundation of Japan and the accession of its first Emperor, Emperor Jimmu on this day

Photo: Woodblock Print by Ginko Adachi

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Kanazawa Station is one of the most unique train station architectures of Japan

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Ca 1905 Meiji-era Portrait of a Japanese girl

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Great Buddha at Kamakura, 1930

― Hasui Kawase

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Gokayama Historic Village It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture.

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Kifune Shrine (貴船神社)

Kifune Shrine is a Shinto shrine located at Sakyō-ku in Kyoto, Japan. Although the area is called Kibune (貴船, lit. yellow boat), the shrine's name is pronounced Kifune.