An American Girl in Japan

あついのあきた。

ご無沙汰さんしております。忙しゅうしておりました。またよろしゅうおねがいします。

I've had enough of the heat.

入道雲

ハンバーグタワー＆巨大パフェいろいろ // Hamburg Tower & Giant Parfait At a cafe near Nagoya Port Aquarium. (I should note, the menu just calls it the hamburg plate - no mention of the unusual size.) So if, after your ten hamburg patties with rice and two sides (about $35), you still have room for dessert, there’s the Challenge (~$22), the Never Give Up (~$31), or the Unbelievable ($~40), depending on how big a bucket you want for your ice cream.

Antique summer/early autumn outfit, pairing a hozuki (physalis/ground cherry) kimono with glittering silver ground, paired with a delicate embroidered mushi kago (insect cage) obi (can you see the subtle woven ground?)

下鴨神社 御手洗祭

Shimogamo Mitarai Festival.  Japan

大原 - Ohhara by Yuya Horikawa

Look what I found at the store yesterday! Star Wars Giant Pocky! I was just going to get one, but I really couldn’t decide which one I liked better. I’m a Luke Skywalker fan but Darth Vader is Darth Vader. I ended up just buying both as you can see.

Truthfully, I’m not a huge fan of Giant Pocky. They come individually packaged so you open one, eat it, and that’s it. I don’t find them nearly as satisfying as normal Pocky. But they were still delicious. :) This set came with three flavors; green tea, strawberry, and grape. The grape was a little over powering, but the strawberry and green tea ones were great.

Masaboshi

Marco Albiero aka the guy who has been doing all the re-print art, did a set of Usagi’s Forms pictures. I just made it a gif and used some color changes to give it a softer, Naoko-type look. 

🍵ラベルが小さくなった伊右衛門と、友達に貰った染井吉野の香りがするお香。幸せなリラックス タイム🌸

by Japanese photographer みた @mita3_

Sense of Wonder, Shinjuku 新宿

Minka Spaces

The main room and bedroom of our minka. Very nice spaces to live and work with the warm breezes flowing through the house… 

Underbelly I, Shinjuku 新宿