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Manji-ike in Hasedera Kamakura

Let me tell you a story today! – The Manji

Let me tell you a story today. For emptying my mind, I am often scrolling through Instagram without paying much attention to the captions of videos or photos. Sometimes, however, single videos or photos catch my attention and I am reading the text and comments. Recently, I saw something that really made me sad and […]

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Real Japanese Gardens Calendar 2022

Hi there!I am sorry for only posting about products lately… I will make sure that the next post will be informative again! We released the Real Japanese Gardens Calendar 2022 a few days ago and it was a blast!There are only two calendars left and in case you haven’t seen it on our other platforms, […]

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Stone Lanterns in the Japanese Garden

Black Friday Bundle Sale @ Real Japanese Gardens

Hi there! I am exited to announce this year’s Black Friday deals on Real Japanese Gardens! You know, space here in the apartments in Japan and especially in Tokyo is limited and we LOVE digital goods for not taking up any of our small spaces. How about you?  So we decided to make super bundles […]

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Review: Sakuraco Box

Review: Sakuraco Box

This month we got the amazing opportunity to test one of TokyoTreat’s subscription boxes. Maybe you have already heard of these kind of boxes? If not, let me explain in few words. Over the last years, boxes with treats from Japan became quite popular. Most of them come as subscription boxes where you receive one […]

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Happy Holidays!

We are wishing you a great time and am looking forward to seeing you again in the next year! I will re-start this blog in 2021 with an update on Real Japanese Gardens and a blog about garden lanterns! So stay tuned 🙂 So long, feel free to visit us on Facebook or Instagram! And […]

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Japanese Gardens Calendar 2020

Real Japanese Gardens – Original Calendar 2020

Last year I found the perfect format for our Real Japanese Gardens calendar. It’s a format for the desk with a beautiful wooden stand. Of course, I created a new calendar for the next year too! This time I used the most popular pictures from our Instagram account and mixed them with seasonal flower pictures […]

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Christmas

Merry Christmas!

We wish you a very merry Christmas and a good start into the new year! May it be productive and prosperous! Anika Japanese Garden Terms Limited Christmas Edition 2018 I finished this book around a year ago but never published it. This year it will be available as a „Thank you“ to all our customers […]

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Japanese Garden Calendar 2019

Real Japanese Gardens – Original Calendar 2019

Since 2015 I wanted to create an original Real Japanese Gardens Calendar, but never found a format, which I really liked. Until this year! I always have a calendar on my desk for fast reference, but most of the ones, which are available, are boring paper ones. This year I found a Japanese printing company, […]

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Hatsumode at Meiji Jingu

Hatsumode with our company

Hatsumode is the first visit to a shrine or temple in the New Year, where you pray for a good, save, wealthy coming year. It is the tradition to visit the Meiji shrine every year with our company and a befriended architect. Last year and the year before I couldn’t participate due to illness and […]

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Book: Japanese Garden Design Parts

[Book review] Garden parts of traditional Japanese gardens

和の庭 図案集 Design Parts Collection In Japanese Traditional Style Garden design book 建築資料研究社出版部編 I found this book on the Garden & Exterior Design fair of Takasho. There is one publisher specialised in everything garden, design, exterior and interior. I already loved it for their magazines “Exterior & Garden” and “庭” (Niwa – Garden). However, when […]

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