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Rice Harvesting in October

On February 28, 2019February 26, 2019 By Mika SendaIn Country LifeLeave a comment

In October of 2018, rice harvesting season was upon us here in Usa. One warm, sunny day in the still balmy heat of autumn, I decided to go out for a walk. Around the corner from the apartment are several rice fields, and I noticed a harvest in progress. After asking for permission to watch …

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Cooking Rice in a Nabe and Local Seafood

On September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 By Mika SendaIn Country Life2 Comments

Seafood is a surprisingly affordable product in grocery stores, and there's a great variety available to us here. Not all attempts of cooking has been what I'd call a success, but it's a fun experience nonetheless. One way we've learned to cook with seafood is with a hot pot, or nabe (なべ) as it is …

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💥 A flashback earlier from this year 💥In June, I visited the historic samurai district in #Kitsuki during a weekday afternoon, where it felt like shadows cast by the #samurai were there only moments ago. . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
🌨️Well, it's December. THAT came fast.🌨️ It seems strange that I have my parka and toque gear out, even though it doesn't seem that long ago that the drone of several hundred frogs croaked into the night during the hot, summer months. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 With rice fields facing every which way from my apartment, amphibians of all kinds hopped their way from the nourishment of the fields and onto the glaring lights of vending machines. It was a temptation frogs couldn't ignore, and a mass of them would lay await against the cool glass for passing prey. If it wasn't for the conspicuous lighting that made me look like a radiating alien in the dark, I would have watched for longer. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
🔥“Strike while the irons hot.” 🔥I always knew what this meant, though never witnessed it in its complete, literal meaning. That is, until one a stormy day, while the furnace roars and hammers clang, as Mr. Matsunaga of Arao, Kumamoto leads us into the elusive world of katana sword making. 👉Read the full post w. link in my bio! 👈 #katanasword #kumamoto #localcrafts . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
In the beginning of November, I visited the city of Bungotakada to watch one of the largest semi-nude Shinto festivals in Japan. While a massive, 5-tonne torch was being lit by archers with arrows of fire, several men in loincloths carried a float down the freezing river towards the torch. A performance of taiko drum and flute resumed into the night, and I still feel the reverberations of it in my bones. 💓💓💓#hadakamatsuri . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
Just a right plumpness of this little persimmon, in all its ripe glory. 🙌 As a kid, this fruit was my absolute favourite. On the rare occasion that my family would dish out for the persimmon (or 'kaki' (柿)), I would greedily gobble and slurp up every last delicious drop before eyeing the next fruit. Now, with persimmons in full season in Japan, grocery stores are overflowing with the fruit, and I can get my fill until I'm *almost* sick of them. And there's always next year to get my persimmon fix. #persimmonseason #kakiseason #ontayaki .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
One of the many perfect sunsets in Oita. 👌☀️#perfectsunset .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #UnknownJapan #JapanDaily #instajapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
At Yutoku Inari Shrine in Saga prefecture, there's a line of tori gates taking you up to the top vantage point of a mountain. It's a hike you've got to be ready to sweat for, but the view of Saga prefecture and the grandeur of the shrine itself is worth the visit. While driving down the highway, the shrine's cadmium-painted grandiosity seemed to come out of nowhere, and this abrupt encounter still sits firmly in my memory.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan #saga #YutokuInariShrine
🌅Autumn Sunset 🌅It's been over an year now since I first arrived in the countryside of Oita, and I'm still taken by the beauty surrounding me in this place. Even a walk by a cemetery in my neighbourhood holds its own beautiful landscapes, especially when there's a red and purple sunsets in the evenings. 🙌🌞 . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
My job here in Japan can take me a few different scenic routes along the way to work. On the train headed to Yukuhashi, I always passed a beautiful big, brick building with faded white kanji writing on the side. Curious, I finally drove there to get a closer look at the now-abandoned building, and wondered about the interior space hidden inside. With doors chained up, I may never find out. But every time I pass by this building on the train, I fantasize about how it would make an awesome artists' studio. Or living space. 🌟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan

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💥 A flashback earlier from this year 💥In June, I visited the historic samurai district in #Kitsuki during a weekday afternoon, where it felt like shadows cast by the #samurai were there only moments ago. . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
🌨️Well, it's December. THAT came fast.🌨️ It seems strange that I have my parka and toque gear out, even though it doesn't seem that long ago that the drone of several hundred frogs croaked into the night during the hot, summer months. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 With rice fields facing every which way from my apartment, amphibians of all kinds hopped their way from the nourishment of the fields and onto the glaring lights of vending machines. It was a temptation frogs couldn't ignore, and a mass of them would lay await against the cool glass for passing prey. If it wasn't for the conspicuous lighting that made me look like a radiating alien in the dark, I would have watched for longer. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
🔥“Strike while the irons hot.” 🔥I always knew what this meant, though never witnessed it in its complete, literal meaning. That is, until one a stormy day, while the furnace roars and hammers clang, as Mr. Matsunaga of Arao, Kumamoto leads us into the elusive world of katana sword making. 👉Read the full post w. link in my bio! 👈 #katanasword #kumamoto #localcrafts . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
In the beginning of November, I visited the city of Bungotakada to watch one of the largest semi-nude Shinto festivals in Japan. While a massive, 5-tonne torch was being lit by archers with arrows of fire, several men in loincloths carried a float down the freezing river towards the torch. A performance of taiko drum and flute resumed into the night, and I still feel the reverberations of it in my bones. 💓💓💓#hadakamatsuri . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
Just a right plumpness of this little persimmon, in all its ripe glory. 🙌 As a kid, this fruit was my absolute favourite. On the rare occasion that my family would dish out for the persimmon (or 'kaki' (柿)), I would greedily gobble and slurp up every last delicious drop before eyeing the next fruit. Now, with persimmons in full season in Japan, grocery stores are overflowing with the fruit, and I can get my fill until I'm *almost* sick of them. And there's always next year to get my persimmon fix. #persimmonseason #kakiseason #ontayaki .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
One of the many perfect sunsets in Oita. 👌☀️#perfectsunset .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #UnknownJapan #JapanDaily #instajapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
At Yutoku Inari Shrine in Saga prefecture, there's a line of tori gates taking you up to the top vantage point of a mountain. It's a hike you've got to be ready to sweat for, but the view of Saga prefecture and the grandeur of the shrine itself is worth the visit. While driving down the highway, the shrine's cadmium-painted grandiosity seemed to come out of nowhere, and this abrupt encounter still sits firmly in my memory.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan #saga #YutokuInariShrine
🌅Autumn Sunset 🌅It's been over an year now since I first arrived in the countryside of Oita, and I'm still taken by the beauty surrounding me in this place. Even a walk by a cemetery in my neighbourhood holds its own beautiful landscapes, especially when there's a red and purple sunsets in the evenings. 🙌🌞 . . . #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan
My job here in Japan can take me a few different scenic routes along the way to work. On the train headed to Yukuhashi, I always passed a beautiful big, brick building with faded white kanji writing on the side. Curious, I finally drove there to get a closer look at the now-abandoned building, and wondered about the interior space hidden inside. With doors chained up, I may never find out. But every time I pass by this building on the train, I fantasize about how it would make an awesome artists' studio. Or living space. 🌟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KyushuAmbassador #DiscoverKyushu #LostinKyushu #宇佐市 #大分県 #日本生活 #dailyjapan #livinginjapan #japaneselifestyle #japanlife #田舎生活 #japancountryside #countrysideliving #japan_photo_now #DiscoverJapan #VisitJapanJP #UnknownJapan #Japan_Lovers #JapanDaily #instajapan #japantour #explorejapan #japanrevealed #OFFTheBeatenTrack #myJapan #japantraveljp #offbeatjapan

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