Japanese Silence
The Japanese are extremely quiet and one of the things that catches their attention (andleast liked) when traveling to other countries, especially Spain and the U.S., is as high as itis spoken and how noisy is its people.
The taste for the silence takes you to the extent that in places such as subways or trains is prohibited to use mobile phone to call, making the Japanese set eyes on their screens to play or write messages.
Undoubtedly one of the great contrasts that are seen in Tokyo (and all over Japan) are the laws regarding snuff. While in some streets and parks is prohibited from smoking, there are places like restaurants where this measure does not apply. Even more surprising is to findsome cars for smokers in the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto.
extremely sorted
Japanese people love to queue, especially respect them. It is not uncommon along the street or subway stop you and the person behind you will just wait for that progress. Find it hard to dodge obstacles.
Bars with cats and dogs hire
Although I love animals, the grueling work schedules and the houses are extremely smallthat many Japanese choose not to have pets. As everything has a solution to fill this gapmany turn to the bars with cats or dogs rentals.
If you want to do one of these activities typically Japanese, you must mentalizaros of having to pay a considerable sum in view of a Westerner. Odaiba rent a dog will cost 2,500 yenper hour. If you want the evening to be perfect, you can bring your dog to dinner at one of the restaurants with canine menu.
Japanese women are beautiful and some seem wrists but are they really? The truth is thatno trip to Tokyo can complete without visiting the section of female beauty in any mall, falsesection is endless.
Star as an invention is the "glue-eyes", a purely Japanese invention that many girls dreamcome true Nipponese have larger eyes and a Western air.
bathrooms
While traditional Japanese toilets are simply holes in the ground, modern toilets should attach a manual instrucciones.Tapas that rise alone, several jets for cleaning, dryingmachine, air freshener and music have become a standard. The modern bathrooms featurecard readers and even screens to enjoy your own music or viewing pictures.
Japanese Tramps
Something that has survived since the crisis in Japan of the 90 is the high number of homeless people roaming the streets and parks. At night ride "home" and the days have allpicked up and covered with a tarp to prevent rain.
Unlike other countries, Japanese homeless living on the street but do not beg, do not ask for money and are entirely peaceful. Many have cleaning supplies, bicycles, and even othermobile gadgets.
Surely you will have you ever raised the question: how does a Japanese firm?. Well you might not, but if I spend my head for this question and found the answer.
A Japanese company with its kanji by writing rubrics as is without the name or hidebetween the lines as we Westerners with our firm, this would be equivalent to Western firms, but this signature mas.Para the Japanese do use a few seals ink to sign, these are called inkan or hanko which is equivalent to the signature.
This seal in ancient times as the rings of the nobles of the Middle Ages which used to authenticate the signature in the West, reserved for the nobles in Japan and then used bythe samurai, came into use by the population in the late XIX.Este types of seals areelongated cylindrical shape and use red ink.
The Japanese get these seals between the end of school and beforeuniversidad.Normalmente have two: one officer who gets into the hall of residence, and is used to sign official documents, and other personnel used for all that are not official documents.
In stores "everything at 100 yen" can be found, that if, just for Japanese names, although insome tourist areas can be found with foreign names written in Katakana.Este method is also used by other Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam among others.
The Maneki Neko, also known as "lucky cat" or "fortune cat" is a popular Japanesesculpture is said to bring good luck. It is commonly seen in the bar of the sushi bars andJapanese restaurants. The sculpture depicts a cat waving a paw raised.
It can be often seen in shops, restaurants and other businesses. Usually a cat raising itsleft paw invites people to go into business in the right leg and holds an ancient coin namedKoban Japanese. Generally has a collar with a bell is believed scares the evil spirits, oftenmade of porcelain or ceramic, and plastic now. In the original versions of porcelain, the legused to be always up, even in the newer versions usually plastic leg move up and down.The height at which the leg is raised can vary from one sculpture to another. It is said thatthe higher is the so-called cat attract customers from greater distances.
The Bonsai Tree is a woody perennial plant stem. Bonsai name consists of two Japanesegraphic signs. UPS BON means container and tree. The literal translation is, therefore,another potted trees or, more accurately, plants grown in pots. In fact they arereproductions of the old trees that grow freely in nature, and with some proper techniquesof pruning, wiring and composition, you get to give that air of giant tree despite its tiny size.
As a plant base is used in a nursery purchased material, recovered from the nature ortrees that come from cuttings, seeds are also used, but these are slow to become realtrees and the hobbyist can get tired and bored while waiting.
After a while we ourselves who we expand our collection, acquiring new or retrievingcopies of nature.
As fashion imposes its criteria, usually exposed Bonsai shops are within species, the beginner may think that all are indoor bonsais. Well there is no interior species, bonsai are trees and as such they all live outside in their places of origin. There is therefore nospecies living safely inside the house. Some of them may come to adapt more or less success to special atmosphere of our home.
The sushi is a Japanese dish made from rice cooked rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar and salt. This dish is one of the most renowned of Japanese cuisine and one of the most popular internationally.
One could investigate the origin of sushi before the fourth century BC in Southeast Asia.The salted and fermented fish with rice, was an important source of protein. The cleaned and gutted fish are put into rice so that the natural fermentation of rice to help conservation.This type of sushi is called nare-zushi. He stayed for a couple of months in fermentation and then consumed only fish and rice was discarded.
Over time it spread throughout China and later, around the eighth century in the Heian period, was introduced in Japan. Since Japanese preferred to eat rice with fish, sushi, called seisei-zushi, became popular at the end of Muromachi period. This type of sushi was consumed while the fish was still partly raw and the rice had not lost its flavor. In this way, sushi became part of the culinary art rather than a way to preserve food.
Later in the Edo era, Japanese began making haya-zushi, which was created as a way of eating rice and fish, this dish was unique to Japanese culture. Instead of being only used for fermentation, rice was mixed with vinegar and combined not only with fish but also with various vegetables and canned foods. Today, every region of Japan still retains its own flavor using local produce and doing different types of sushi that have remained for generations.
At the beginning of the century-19th century, when Tokyo was still called Edo, the food industry was mainly dominated by mobile food stands where nigiri-zushi originated.Edomae which literally means "in front of Tokyo Bay," was where he got the fresh fish and tasty seaweed for the nigiri-zushi. As a result, also called Edomae-zushi, and was popular among the people in Edo after Yohei Hanaya, a creative sushi chef, who improved the sushi as a simple but delicious food. Then, after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, nigiri sushi spread throughout Japan with experienced Edomae-zushi chefs from Edo.
In the years seventy to eighty, when he awoke the health concerns and people began to realize the importance of food, sushi, one of the healthiest foods in the world, began their race to overcrowding. Today his demand in the world is enormous. In our country every day there is a greater awareness of its nutritional goodness, and its sophisticated aesthetic taste.
Are the characters used in China for over 3000 years. Are ideograms (diagrams or pictures that represent ideas) developed from pictograms and signs. For example the character for sun was a sun-shaped design and the tree-like branches of a tree. Theseideograms were mixed together to form other words. Thus, wood is the combination of two trees and a forest is a combination of 3 trees.
He says there are about 50,000 kanji combination of them form the Japanese language.However, as the Japanese are very practical decided they were too many kanji and normally not used them all, so officially designated 1945 as use kanji "diary". These are the kanji for themselves and are combined with each other everyday language in companies, government agencies, newspapers etc..
Most kanji introduced from China can be read in two ways: China-readable form or shape"on" and readable form or shape Japanese "kun".
There are also fabricated and kanji unique to Japan for their own use.
It's amazing crop art that has emerged through the rice fields in Japan, but this is not analien creation ... designs have been cleverly planted.
To create images, farmers do not use ink ... Instead, they use rice plants of different colors, which have been strategically placed and grown in the rice fields ...
Planting: farmers make planting according to the chosen design.
After a few days ...
After a few weeks ...
As summer progresses and plants grow, the detailed illustrations begin to emergedramatically!
The colors are created through the use of different varieties of rice.
The farmers create the murals of planting rice using a little purple and yellow-Kodaimai-green leaves with local-Leaf-Tsugaru Roman variety, to create color patterns in time between planting and harvest in September.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and the spectators have to climb the castle tower of the village to get a glimpse of the work.
Zoom in, we can see how the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in paddy fields allow these designs.
This art started in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that emerged from themeetings of village committees.
Different varieties of rice plants grow next to each other to create masterpieces.
In the first nine years, the village workers and farmers expanded a simple design of MountIwaki every year ... but his ideas became more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of vast spaces of art withrice plants. A year later, the organizers began using computers to design with precisionplanting each plot of four rice varieties of different colors that are the images of life.
The tentacles of the yakuza hit many different areas, mainly corporate extortion, gambling, smuggling, money lending, money laundering, drug trafficking, the sale of real estate,sports, entertainment industry, handling stock, the tourist scam, sex, prostitution, slavery, pornography, and the arms trade.
Sex - one of the companies connected to the yakuza is the lifeblood of the same, and they provide the worker with high purchasing power, the "salary man" in Japan on the wild side.The yakuza smuggled shipments of pornographic magazines and movies in Japan from Europe and America. They control prostitution circles throughout the city, usually keepyoung women from other Asian countries as indentured servants in captivity, and forced to work as "workers of pleasure." The Japanese euphemistically refers to the act ofprostitution "selling thermal" and the Japanese are very attracted to girls, as evidenced by the national obsession with young women, schoolgirls dress, pleated short skirts and high socks the knee.
China is not the only source of young women of the yakuza. Many of the prostitutes of theyakuza come from the Philippines, where poor village girls are tricked into going abroadwith promises of respectable jobs and good wages. Once they arrive in Japan they are put to work as strippers and prostitutes by the heads of the yakuza. Often these girls succumbto the demands of their pimps yakuza because they can earn much more money than they could do in the Philippines. The joke that runs between the passers-Filipinos in the big cities of Japan, is that when they send money home to their families unknown, full of enthusiasm write letters describing in detail his work as "receptionists."
Sex tours are also popular in East Asia, and the yakuza has its hands in this trade, organizing holiday tours to cities such as Bangkok, Manila, Seoul and Taipei, where hotelsoffer sex prostitutes to satisfy any fantasy . 
Maiko: When she reaches Shikomi minarai stage before his debut as a maiko, her hairmust have grown long enough to enable him the elaborate hairstyles that will be made with your own hair. In developing these hairstyles, they used various decorative elements calledkanzashi. These forks are as flat-lined in colorful silks, multiple shapes, sizes and colors, and they have a large collection for each month of the year and for each station. Also used, pieces of silk ribbons Kanoko calls, and the dome-Kanoko miokuri and that are a kind of combs, rectangular in red, gold and bronze. The first hairstyle that carries the maiko is called Wareshinobu
When you have passed or have mizuage her danna, the style of the maiko hairstylechanges to Ofuku that although Wareshinobu style looks in the rear, is replaced by Kanokochirimen-teragami, which is a triangular shaped belt that takes inserted into the top of thebun, instead of interleave in the bow as Wareshinobu style.
Apart from these two hairstyles, the maiko used three. The Katsuyama or marumage, which is used in summer, and that it was known since the seventeenth century. This will take in the festivities of Gion in July, it was the same hairstyle worn by married women in Edo andShoowa Eras. The yakko-shima is reserved for special occasions such as festivals, banquets, and especially for the New Year festival.
Currently, women who choose to become geisha will do it for free, girls are not sold, and they do keep up the tradition of his country. The ceremonies remain the same, but thechoice is mizuage.
Many are students, allowing them to get money for college, speak several languages, and study the same arts of the geisha in antiquity (playing the shamisen, or flute, dance, tea ceremony, etc.). , some are even married and combine their activities housewives, to begeisha. Manage Internet, talk on the phone, and there's even one that even has a Webpage where it has a hanamachi life (I read somewhere, but I do not know your e = O (). The theme of sexuality, it is also something left to their choice, and there is even one that may have a danna.
The proliferation of pubs, discos and bars, has made other business was born, as are the bridesmaids, young Japanese who are in these stores, catering to clients attempting to consume large amounts of alcohol.
Because of this phenomenon, and after World War II, the number of geisha and maiko has decreased considerably, from 80,000, to 25,000 in the Meiji Era, and only 10,000 in the current era.
In any case, to see these beautiful women, full of many details and symbols transport us tothat time, and perhaps part of his sadness on their faces hid mime, reflecting a bucolic image of them, but in his role as theater have always shown the world the image of sympathy, charm and fascination. A world of women, controlled by women.
When we hear the word "Geisha" was followed by a series of images. These thin women wrapped in beautiful kimonos, walking fast, short little steps along the narrow streets of Kyoto, with his face painted white, looking like a mime or a Pierrot, staring, lost in her own thoughts.After the disappearance of the figure of the samurai, the geisha with sumo wrestlers are the only example of Japan's past. The Geisha still with the passage of time, after more than 400 years, and this continues to cause fascination, and many questions about it. The most awaited festival every year in Gion, is the cherry blossom, to see out in all its splendor to all maiko geisha and their hanamachi.
The word comes from the phonemes GEISHA Chinese "Gei", meaning art, skill, and "Sha" meaning person. That is what represents a Geisha, a person with skill in various arts.
In olden times, specifically in the Edo era to the Meiji Era, this word is used to refer to any person who belonged to the arts (poetry, theater, painting), but extended to other sectors (religious, sports, teachers foreign languages, and even to refer to the surgeons of the time), also was known by this name to those acting in a closed or private, which is perhaps what is also close to the idea of a Geisha. The Geisha appears in the Edo Era, also known as the "machi geisha", the Urban Geisha.
The predecessor of the Geisha, are Odoriko, who were the dancers, but if we go back years ago, we might draw their roots from the "kabuki odori" (street theater dancers).These dancers, beautifully dressed in silk kimonos, really were mostly men, and were responsible for the samurai dance before, performing the tea ceremony, serving sake, and playing the shamisen (string instrument like the guitar but with three strings, and a very melodic sound), this dance was known as Okuni.While its roots linked to the kabuki theater, we can infer that there also comes the tradition of painting his face blank.In the Edo period, those with economic power were the merchants. They sought ways to distraction, which represent the sites where they were growing kabuki. Arts were not only growing, but also prostitution, making certain harmful sites. The Tokugawa shogunate was not welcome kabuki performances in the Yoshiwara district, because they were the causes of which were started "new practices of pleasure." This led to the prohibition of all activity and distraction was established in what is called "pleasure districts." In other words, prostitution is not prohibited but was confined to these sites, and under government control.
In 1779, the Geishas were recognized as artists, and adopted the system "Kenber" to oversee the geisha in the area, and restricted the number below 100 artists, thus protecting the geisha who fell into prostitution . The kenban, is still operating today as a kind of union of the geisha.
Geisha and maiko lived in "hanamachis" (city of flowers, hana = flower, machi = city), which were authorized cities to be inhabited by them. Currently, there are five communities in Kyoto: Ponto-cho, Gion-Kobu, Gion-Higashi, Miyagawa-cho, and Kamishichiken. The Kyoto geisha spoke in dialect "kiotense" which is still spoken today. In kiotense geisha is geiko.
Many prostitutes tried to imitate the style of the geisha, but had no artistic training from them. They dressed in kimonos, with too much makeup and trim excess hair, so for new edict of the Tokugawa shogun, and to protect the image of the geisha, it forced them to moderate their costumes and makeup to differentiate prostitutes.
Perhaps for this reason that for a time confused the geisha with them, because they were also in the houses of "red lights", but the fact is we can not say that geishas were prostitutes.
They were responsible only to distract the men, with pleasant conversations, dancing, and playing the shamisen. Geisha and maiko dancing Tachikata were called, and those engaged in playing an instrument, Jikata.The time of the geisha and maiko with every man, half incense sticks, when it had finished its time consuming.
Geisha and maiko, had a pact of silence, so any man could be comfortable with the conversations that keep ahead of her, or her.
In those areas of pleasure, as they were called, came numerous ochaya, which are the teahouses where geisha serve their clients
