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These traditional inns are Japan’s version of the spa hotel – exquisite multi-course kaiseki Japanese meals, renowned omotenashi hospitality and even luxurious hot spring baths on your own private balcony. A ryokan stay is also a great opportunity to see more than most visitors to Japan do, as the best ones tend to be off the beaten track in small historic towns or charming rural areas.
hile Anna Wintour is abroad, Emily Blunt (who has some very relevant experience) fills her shoes and takes charge at the Vogue office while answering 73 questions. As Emily fulfills her duties as Vogue's Editor-in-Chief, she talks about the pizza in New York City, becoming Mary Poppins, and what she's learned about fashion from her movie roles.
The entry in the Nihon Kōki states that Eichū personally prepared and served sencha (unground Japanese green tea) to Emperor Saga who was on an excursion in Karasaki (in present Shiga Prefecture) in the year 815. By imperial order in the year 816, tea plantations began to be cultivated in the Kinki region of Japan. However, the interest in tea in Japan faded after this..
The oversized decorative alcove (tokonoma) is in keeping with the impressive size of this room. The suitably large hanging screen (kakejiku) displayed in it was painted by Hoan Kosugi, a famous artist. The walls are plastered with a unique plaster of fine sand. Fusumo doors are decorated with real gold and silver dust. The lacquered (urushi) frames of the shoji screens, the exquisite ornamental nail covers (kugi-kakushi) and door handles (hikite) are a sign of rare luxury..
[4K] Yugawara Onsen - Private bath - 2017.06...i love having private onsen...i really want to have a Japanese Ryokan home I design with a design team one day , & perhaps one nestled somewhere special in Japan..you can just be for months really in Japan taking peaceful...Ryokan journeys..i envisioned doing this before...& i still want to...
One of my little joys is truly having lovely fragrant + pure Japanese tea...here i was at the Four Seasons in Kyoto..that i love also...i could live there too lol :) it is so perfect...& you can own private residences there :) The spa, pool, setting, gentle caring, and the oriental preserved whisper of Kyoto song awakens in certain magical moments...
Japonisme I love...see i am pretty studied in Decorative art with many many courses from Jewellery design at Cartier in Paris, to Sotheby's to Hermitage..all my ideas & visions are very original, but i especially love to derive from older art,& living & make a newer version of it for slip silk dress line, skincare, sourcing japanese tea...it is always a joy for me to arrive at my own ideas:) the journey is as delightful as the arrival...
I have always loved this photo of me at Raffles, Singapore..i was so happy there then....i love how i am dreamy feeling in it, fluttering eyelashes, & my silhouette ,...it is rare a photo completes that I am loving of it entirely...most ladies are fussy about their photos, ...even celebrities for decades..you never really see the bad ones :)
0:07 / 0:15 Schubert - Serenade (Best Version..so beautiful to me eternally...i like to listen to classical music especially when i am in places & moods, atmospheres... that arouse my senses naturally, dream like...i believe life is so much more beautiful when it is in a place of embracing dream, kindness, love....
