season - Noemi Noemi

7 décembre 2015

Winter will never come

This year, the red and gold autumn foliage has been slow to quietly invade Tokyo. It is almost mid-December, only two weeks from Christmas and still, it seems that Nature is not ready to sleep. Let us play outside! Let us enjoy the sunshine! shout the...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, city, autumn, red, yellow, nature, gingko, leaves, foliage, momoji

23 septembre 2015

Silver Week in Izu

The Izu peninsula is one of the Tokyoites' favorite weekend destination. Atami, the entry spot of the area, is located only 40 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen. Then, you need to leave the world of fast and comfortable public transportation to enter the...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, holidays, mountain, river, autumn, nature, izu, hiking, pure, beautiful, fall, izu kogen, jogasaki, kawazu, kawazu nanadaru, landscapes, september

1 mai 2015

Sakura & The City

It's not very difficult to capture the poetry of sakura when you shoot it in gardens and parks; but it doesn't express how magical the city can turn at the blossoming season. Sakura in the nature is glorious, but sakura in the city is more than that....

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Tags: japanese, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, street, sakura, pink, white, blossom, april

30 novembre 2014

Pure gold made trees

Gingkos are back this autumn, blonder and brighter than ever ! I love them even more than the red momiji. I can't imagine anything more joyful than their yellow leaves on pure blue sky. They warm up the city, bringing light at every corner. Icho-namiki,...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, holidays, beauty, autumn, blond, trees, nature, golden week, gingko, koyo

29 novembre 2014

Dye and die

When you stay for a long time in Japan, you understand why the philosophy of this country can be summarized as "let it die in all its glory". This is a civilization of paper, not stone. Joy, relationship, love, life : let it die in all its glory. Something...

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Tags: japan, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, autumn, trees, red, yellow, nature, yoyogi, koyo, leaves, contemplation, philosophy

25 avril 2014

Nezu Jinja azaleas

How could I have spent 5 spring seasons in Tokyo without paying a visit to Nezu Shrine (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) when the tsutsuji (Japanese azaleas) are blossoming? It's just like... like... A herd of pink and white sheeps. Strawberry-vanilla bushes. A matress...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, nature, flowers, shrine, ohanami, bunkyo, nezu, parc

8 mars 2014

Ume festival at Yushima Tenjin

In two weeks, the sakura will start to blossom, luring admirers from the five continents. But don't forget that this is the blossoming ume plum-trees that really open the hanami season in Japan. Shy, discrete, perfumed ume flowers that the Japanese were...

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 13:58 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, hanami, pink, flowers, relax, life is beautiful, ume, haru

16 novembre 2013

Red & Gold Tragedy

Last week on the Japanese morning news, between two essentiel pieces of information like where to find the best pop-corn in town or which combini is offering the most competitive pumpkin pudding, there was a program about this year's autumn leaves. Be...

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Tags: japan, colors, season, tokyo, beauty, love, autumn, trees, nature, koyo, showa kinen park

10 novembre 2013

Koyo 2013 preview

Every year you're dying to see them again : the splendid koyo are coming again soon! Preview!

Posté par NoemiMonogatari à 13:46 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: japan, season, beauty, autumn, nature, koyo, leaves

22 juin 2013

Advantages of the Japanese rainy season

Every year in Japan, this is the same story : after the magic of blossoming sakura in April/May, we are slowly slipping into the hot season. And before the sweaty summer, there is the grey, the wet, the uncomfortable rainy season. Grey sky, heavy rain,...

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Tags: art, roppongi hills, season, tokyo, fun, beauty, summer, fireflies, rain, pleasure, yayoi