Japanese Tea Ceremony

I will tell you about the condition of Japanese tradition “tea ceremony” now.
Tea ceremony is one of the Japanese traditions. Tea is green tea in Japanese “maccha” People make “maccha” in a certain way when they serve it to the guest and there are a lot of schools. For example, “rikyuryuu” was made by Senrikyu. Tea ceremony is very popular traditions from both Japanese and foreigner. From Japanese view, people who do tea ceremony have image that those people are quiet and good-looking. Therefore, women who want to have husband in a meeting with a view of marriage often say one of her hobbies is “tea ceremony”. If women say that man may regard the women that she become good wife. In that case good wife mean who work hard for husband without saying dissatisfaction. The reason of this kind of vies toward people who do “tea ceremony” is that Japanese people have a feeling of respect for “tea ceremony” itself.
From foreigner view, “tea ceremony” is representative of Japanese culture. A lot of foreigner want experience it at lease once. In one of the schools in “urasenke”, there are seminar of “tea ceremony” for foreigner. Why “tea ceremony” is popular among both Japanese and foreigner? The atmospheres in the room of “tea ceremony” make people calm and forget the stressful daily life. In fact, green tea contains the ingredient that make people relax. Moreover, flowers and ceramics that are used in “tea ceremony” are art of Japan. Therefore, foreigner can see not only “tea ceremony” itself but also another aspect of Japanese tradition.
For those reasons “tea ceremony” is very popular traditions.

breakfast

I will tell you about breakfast in Japan. A lot of Japanese eat Western style breakfast now. The reason is because it is tasty and very easy to make in the morning. We do not have time in the morning so it is very important that we save the time as possible. In the picture, the first one is the breakfast that I eat every day: milk, bread and a fried egg. The birthplace of bread is Mesopotamia and fried egg is America or England. A flavor that you use for fried egg is often argued in Japan. The popular flavors are soy sauce, sauce or salt and pepper.
Many restaurants also serve western style breakfast that is called “morning set”. The contents of breakfast are different in any restaurants. From few years ago, McDonald’s has started serving menus in the morning. The reason why these kinds of menus are popular is sometimes people miss eating breakfast or sometimes it is troublesome for them to make breakfast. Therefore, “morning set” is very popular.
There are many young people who do not eat breakfast in Japan. However, we cannot work our brain without eating breakfast. Therefore, people recommend younger to eat breakfast every day.

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cell phone

I will tell you about Japanese “keitai” culture.
Japanese cell phone is the most advanced all over the world. There are a lot of functions and most of Japanese people have more than one their own cell phone. When you walk around Japan, you can find the scene like these pictures many times. There are two reasons why Japanese people often use cell phone. The first reason is to kill time. Japanese people do not like to be in situation that they do not have nothing to do. The second reason is that cell phone becomes one of the communication skills in daily life for Japanese people. We often get in touch with someone through cell phone.
“Keitai” has become indispensable thing in our daily life in a few years.

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