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Filmed over a week in Kyoto and its surrounding areas. I've been to Kyoto many times before and always wanted to capture the beauty of its atmosphere. The place has an mysterious feeling, with ancient temples and tranquil forests.
Scenes include the Golden Pavilion Temple, Fushimi Inari, Kiyomizu Temple, Gion, Ryoanji, Todaiji, and Arashiyama. We also made trips out to nearby Osaka, Nara, and Koyasan. Especially in the winter, the snow was beautiful in the Mount Koya world-heritage.
皇居には大道庭園と呼ばれる盆栽仕立て場があり、約90種、600点の盆栽があるそうです。 樹齢数100年という名品も多く、中には樹齢550年というものまである。 皇居の盆栽の特徴は3つ。 ・大型盆栽の多さ ・人工的技術を抑えた自然重視の形づくり ・樹齢100年を超す年代物ぞろいという点。 これらが現代的盆栽とはひと味違う圧倒的な品格を醸し出す理由とされ、多くの愛好者の憧れ。 歴史ある盆栽をこうして目にすことができることをとても嬉しく思います。 <引用元> http://bonsai.shikoku-np.co.jp/imperial/ja/about.html Gracrful and elegant works are at the Imperial Palace in TOKYO JAPAN. There is a bonsai works called Omichi Teien Garden at the Imperial Palace. About 600 bonsai pieces of some 90 species of plants are cultivated there. Among them are many hundreds-of-year-old trees. Bonsai at the Imperial Palace is characterized by three major features -- many large bonsai works, nature-oriented bonsai formations that hold down artificial techniques as much as possible, and a number of antique trees aged more than 100. These are believed to have added overwhelming elegance to bonsai works at the palace that are different from modern bonsai works. Many bonsai lovers long to see bonsai pieces at the palace.
Gion Matsuri Festival is one of the three Japanese top festival.
It has been held in Kyoto since Heian era, when bad disease killed a lot of people.
The festival started for people to pray to God for stopping it. It is a summer festival from July 1st to 31st. On July 17th, Yamahoko, grand historical floats, parade around streets and entertain many tourists from inside and outside Japan.
人気のミニ盆栽。 The mini-bonsai is popular among young men and women in Japan. These bonsai is size less than 10cm, but there is the small thing so as to ride a finger-tip. We can find it in an interior shop and the general shop.