Yes, I know, I’ve been awfully quiet here lately. You know, it’s the usual excuse: too many things to do, not enough time to do all. Work, family, of course the virus. It’s causing more work which causes more fatigue, which also means less time and energy for blogging, I’m […]
Tea House
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So, a few days ago, I went to Ritsurin Garden for a very special visit (as a “linguistic consultant” if you like), so I didn’t take any pictures, except from one spot: Kikugetsu-tei, that is Ritsurin Garden’s main tea house. I hadn’t been inside in years, literally (not a […]
Kikugetsu-tei is the largest tea house in Ritsurin Garden. It is also the one tea house that is open every day to the public. There, you can have matcha while enjoying the view of the South Pond of the garden. Sometimes it is also used to host traditional […]
Last week, we went to Shodoshima – where I hadn’t been for way too long – in order to see what the Setouchi Triennale 2016 had to offer there. This year, there are about 40 artworks on the island, and it will be a difficult task to manage to see all of […]
For this first post about my recent trip to Kyoto I’m going to tell you about one of the most famous neighborhoods in the city: Gion. Famous because, on top of being one of the traditional neighborhoods, it also is Kyoto’s main Hanamachi, if not Japan’s. What is a […]
With months (years?) of delay, I’ve finally done the research and I now know the name of the main tea house in the Ritsurin Garden. It’s Kikugetsutei! Now you know it too.
I know this is not the first time I post a picture of the Ritsurin Garden Tea House (or at least the main one that is open the most often), but I just never get tired of it, and I hope you don’t either.
Very often in Japan, the limit between outdoors and indoors is pretty blurred. It’s great when you’re in a tea house in the Ritsurin Garden. Not so much like now in the middle of winter when it’s almost as cold inside as it is outside. On a completely […]
(and I’ll let you with this picture for a few days as I’m travelling to Paris for an extended week-end, if you miss me too much, feel free to rummage through the archive, I’m sure you missed some entries)