Video: Japanese Food - Winter Treat - Oden

Video: Japanese Food - Winter treat - Oden

Video: Japanese Food - Winter treat - Oden

What makes sakura or cherry blossom part of the Japanese spirit?

Picture: Japanese cherry blossom 

"If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!"

— Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), nativist thinker and poet

¨It was courtiers of the .....Heian Period (794-1185) who began making of ethereal sakura (cherry blossoms) what they later became in all their glory — living poems, living symbols of beauty, life, evanescence, death, "Japanese spirit."

Source: Sakura: Soul of Japan

Through the ages, cherry trees in blossom have inspired parties and poetry

By MICHAEL HOFFMAN

Sunday, March 25, 2012

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120325x1.html

Japanese household income estimated in 2014 at $US 45,232

Picture: Japanese vending machine drink brands

"¥5,372,000 ($US45,232.18)..Average yearly income of all households in Japan, according to the labor ministry"

 

Source: Small Print: February 11, 2015
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http://metropolisjapan.com/small-print-february-11-2015