In the middle of modern skyscrapers you’ll discover sliding wooden doors which lead to traditional chambers with tatami mats, shoji screens, and calligraphy, suitable for traditional tea ceremonies.
The most acclaimed restaurant in the country, which costs hundreds of dollars for dinner, is a small shop located in a subway station seating less than a dozen people. Japan has beautiful temples and gardens which are often surrounded by garish signs and ugly buildings.
Cities are as modern and high tech as anywhere else, but tumbledown wooden shacks can still be spotted next to glass fronted designer condominiums. Many Japanese corporations dominate their industries, yet if you read the financial news it seems like Japan is practically bankrupt. Japan is often difficult to understand for those educated in the west. Japanese culture stretches back millennia, yet has also been quick to adopt and create the latest modern fashions and trends. The "Land of the Rising Sun" is a country where the past meets the future. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out." - Ryokan Taigu Ten days' worth of rice in my bag a bundle of twigs in my fireplace.
Guest Houses or Share Houses or Gaikokujin Houses)Ĭherry blossoms in Kichijoji, Tokyo "Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself.
0 kommentar(er)
