最後の紫陽花を見納めに、旧三井家下賀茂別邸を訪ねました。 Visited Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa to take a last look at the hydrangea. 財閥の三井家が、祖霊社を参拝するための参拝休憩所として建築した広い御屋敷は歴史的価値が高く、国の重要文化財に指定されています。 The Mitsui combine, one of the biggest financial groups in Japan constructed theit villa as a resting place before worshipping at their ancestral shrine. Later, it was designated as an Important Cultural Property, which turned out to be a fine example of a large-scale classical Japanese residence. 広い庭園

古都の風和道会・和のマナークラス、コロナ以来、久しぶりの現地開催でした。 It has been a while since I took my last face-to-face lessons of acquiring various traditional Japanese manners at the venue of a traditional wooden house in Kyoto. 今回のクラスでは「香袋と総角結びの吊るし飾り」を手作りしました。 This time, we had a lesson of making an original incense bag and a hanging decoration with a unique braided cord knotting motif, named “Agemaki-musubi.” まずは、素敵な和柄のはぎれから、好きな生地を選びます。 First, selected two favorite cloths of mine from various Japanes