#fuji yama

[tanuki-kimono]

[Akimitsu (autumn light)] openwork decorative round fan, with beautiful golden dawn on Mount Fuji seen throught turning maples.

[simplisticmotherhood]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[dimensionsintime]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[zomboyofficial]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[midnightdiscord]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[urbanchiccoral]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[aboutsignos]

Cherry blossom by the river with Mount Fuji in the background / Japan

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Hatsuhinode | Observing The First Sunrise of The New Year 

Hatsuhinode represents hope and renewal, and is meant to be a rejuvenating and serene practice. Many Japanese will leave their homes early in the morning and find a place that offers a spectacular view of the sunrise such as the beach, mountaintops, and open fields.

[lil-ichigo-bunny]

baby and their army of froggies :3c💖

[a-pixel-perfect-world]

Shibazakura Flower Festival with Mount Fuji in the background, Japan

[tanuki-kimono]

Joyful furisode outfit inspired by auspicious custom of hatsuhinode (going to see the first sunrise of the year), nicely put together by Tsubomi Photo studio.

The Fuji-san in the back is also a nod to hatsuyume (first dream of the year) custom, where dreaming of the mount Fuji, a falcon or an eggplant is seen as good luck!

[perennialyouth]

Shibazakura Flower Festival with Mount Fuji in the background, Japan

[supthemes]

Aokigahara, the forest at the bottom of Mt. Fuji, the top suicide area in Japan. Over seventy-eight bodies have been discovered, supposedly confining the spirits of these individuals to forever haunt…

[my--little--corner]

May 2023

The standard wisteria is starting to bloom, its flowers smell like bubblegum 💜

[apothecaryscript]

Kanji are Chinese characters made in ancient China, and brought to Japan. Each kanji has its own meaning.

The easiest kanji is "一"(one). We write a bar from left to right.

For "二"(two), we write a short bar and a long bar below it.

And for "三"(three), we write three bars from top to bottom.

(More than four, it's completely different.)

The other 3 characters above are hieroglyphs type. I think you can understand how they were made, at a glance.

Even for us Japanese, kanji are difficult to write and read as well, because one character can have multiple readings. For example, 山 can be read as "yama", "san" or "zan", like Mt.Fuji is 富士山(Fuji-san).

It's said that we use around 2,000 kanji in our daily lives, and there are still so many kanji that we don't know.

Kanji help us quickly understand the meaning of sentences, and sentences without kanji are even more difficult for us to read.