Updated: Mar 5, 2024
Today I'm in Nara. This place is an ancient capital in Japan. We have so many Buddhists temples and great Buddhists idols here since about more than 1000 years ago. Now many foreign tourists are coming here. Fortunately the pandemic is over.
Maybe you know Japanese sushi, and perhaps it's the type of rice ball. You may have seen raw fish put on a small rice ball. But we have another type of sushi called Chirashi-sushi. It's a rice dish put on a saucer. My mother often makes this type of sushi using a big leaf instead of a saucer. This is a very very traditional type and made in the countryside in my region. We can eat it only in June or July because we cannot get these leaves this season only. You will feel the smell of leaves when you eat this sushi.
Sakura is the most beloved flower for Japanese people. This year, at last this flower started to bloom. It’s earlier than usual. When sakura starts to bloom, many Japanese people cannot stay calm. It’s because they want to go out to look at it as soon as possible. It’s me too. And we have many kinds of food attached with the name of sakura. This is called “Sakura mochi”, it would be very beautiful, right?
