Tradition

Tea Ceremony- About the ritual way of preparing and drinking tea.

Geisha- About entertainers performing traditional Japanese arts.

Gardens- About Japanese gardens.

Cherry Blossoms - About cherry blossoms or sakura.

Japanese Plum - About the Japanese plum or ume.

Autumn Leaves - About autumn foliage (koyo).

Traditional music - About traditional music and instruments.

Sumo - About Sumo wrestling.SwordsAbout Japanese swords.

Public Bath - About public baths (sento).

Festivals - About Japanese festivals (matsuri).

Annual Events - About national holidays and other annual events.

Calendar - About Japanese calendars.

Hanetsuki - About Japanese badminton.

Festivals

Festivals are the most common event found all around japan. They have a large number of festivals occurring all around the year celebrating different events such as historical events, seasonality, etc. Matsuri, or how it is referred to in Japanese, is unique only to japan. The festivals usually includes many decorated floats which are carried or pulled through the event route during the festival. Every festival has it’s own unique characteristic, which is why it makes all the different matsuris in japan different and special.

Japanese Gardens

Garden Design are a very important aspect in the Japanese life. Most Tv shows filmed in an authentic Japanese houses always showcase a huge garden that are well designed. There are 3 types of landscaping design for the garden art, mainly Tsukiyama Garden (hill gardens), Karesansui Garden (dry gardens) and Chaniwa Garden (tea garden).

Tsukiyama gardens are mainly replication of a natural scenery of a famous landscape area in japan or china.

Karesansui gardens are a replication of a natural landscape using more abstract approach such as using gravels, stone, sand and sometimes patches of moss to symbolise mountain, islands, sea, etc.

Chaniwa garden are built specially for tea ceremonies. They usually contain a house where the ceremony will take place with stepping stones that lead into the house, stone lanterns and a stone basin.