JapanLive - Little Stories from Japan

Summertime in Japan means fireworks. And t here are plenty of these at the moment. To show the beauty of these fireworks, this picture is slightly modified. You can find the original by scrolling down.

Mostly art books in Japanese, Chinese dictionaries, books about fountainpens. Books to sell  

A fter 35 years, the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art closed at the end of March 2025.  Details see Wikipedia as they already shut down their homepage. Archive.org also saved the museum homepage in Japanese and English

  This sunset has a somewhat dystopian touch.

If you go there early enough in the day, the sun let the colors of the Japanese larch trees explode. Together with the Japanese maple (orange and red) and the Gingko tree (yellow), the Japanese larch produces extravibrant colors in autumn (orangebrown). They are especially beautiful when seen together with blue skies. I added a close-up photo of the leaves as some people couldn't believe that it is a larch. If you scroll through my account you can see many more photos of the Japanese autumn colors. Larix kaempferi or Japanese larch or karamatsu (唐松 or 落葉松) in Japanese, is a species of larch native to Japan, in the mountains of Chūbu and Kantō regions in central Honshū. Acer palmatum, commonly known as Japanese maple, palmate maple, or smooth Japanese maple (Japanese: irohamomiji, イロハモミジ, or momiji, 栴), is a species of woody plant native to Korea, Japan, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or gingko also known as the maidenhair tree...

  (Something for the older Germans among us: " Aufi muss I, I muss, I muss. ") Throughout my entire time in Japan, I never climbed it, and I don't think I ever will either , seeing the many people in videos or pictures. I can see it from Narita (distance about 130km), should be enough.