10 - Japanese Landscaping

Ja p a ne s e G a r de n E - n e w s
Volume 10
January
TA K E
Eiji (Age) Morozumi
Landscape Designer
Consultant
2007
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“Have a break, have a Green tea”
M Y F AVO U R I T E G A R D E N
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
In Japan
My favourite Garden
Garden of the month
Women’s Quotation
Men’s rule for Women
If we ask what is wrong
and you say “nothing,” we
will act like nothing’s
wrong. We know you are
lying, but it is just not worth
the hassle.
A nun is in the shower
when there’s a loud banging at the convent door. All
the other nuns are out the
back, in the garden.
“Who is it? “ She called out
“I’m the blind man from the
village,” is the reply. So she
runs downstairs in the
nude and opens the door.
“Great knockers,” says the
visitor.
“Where do you want the
blinds?”
Happy New Year to you.
I would like to show you how different faces of a garden can still be
very attractive.
The photos on the right and below
were taken from a hard-working
lady’s bedroom and she said
“Waking up in the morning and having a cup of tea brought to me by
my hard-working husband on a Sunday morning bed while looking
through the window is one of my
favourite things. In the summer I
love to see the sunlight filtering gen-
tly through the leaves of our big
Liquidamber .
This garden doesn’t have a special
feature like a water basin or a stone
lantern but a 20 year old tree which
has been carefully pruned to show
the seasons or a different face for
each season. In autumn it is brilliant in red and oranges, then in winter after it has warmed the ground
with its carpet of leaves lets the
warmth of the winter sun into my
bedroom through its bare branches.
In spring it comes to life again with
its beautiful fresh new green growth,
and provides me with a different picture outside my bedroom window
with each change of season.
We would love to hear about your favourite garden or anything else you’d
like to share with us.
Please send us e-mail with possibly one
or two photos attached. Or any garden
question you have. I can’t answer everything but I will try my best as always.
© Copyright Japanese Landscaping 2006
Spring comes after
Winter finish
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals.
It is creation in the pure sense.
– Phyllis McGinley –
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January 2007 Volume 10
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In Japan
Ramen
Chinese noodles made mainly of wheat flour and
seasoned to suit the Japanese palate: the name
is thought to be a corruption of ‘la mian’ (la mien),
the Chinese word for ‘stretched noodle’, so called
because the noodles are pulled out by hand into a
thin thread. The noodles are eaten with a broth
seasoned with soy sauce or miso (fermented soy
bean past) and garnished with thin slices of roast
pork, bean sprouts, Chinese bamboo shoots, and
other ingredients.
Restaurants specializing in ’ramen’ are found all
over Japan. Dehydrated and Packaged ’Instant
ramen’ is also popular.
I always go to ramen restaurants while in Japan
for lunch or dinner.
Some ramen restaurants
get long queues at lunch
time, sometimes 30 minutes waiting. It is cheap and quick just like KFC.
You can find a ramen shop on just about every
street in Tokyo.
Starting from $8.00 is a not too bad price.
I order a bottle of Kirin beer and gyoza (like dumpling) to start and finish with ramen for dinner.
I even try to sneak out on my tour to go to my favourite ramen restaurants by myself. These restaurants are small
and you have to
find table to sit or
wait until some
ramen lovers have
finished
eating,
then you quickly
sit there and order
straight away. Oh,
you must share
the table with
strange but at
least you have
something in common and that is
love to eat ramen.
Kay and I went to one of our favourite Chinese Restaurant the other day.
We met new waiter and he is like Basil from Faulty towers. We ordered a few dishes and steam rice as usually we like to eat with steam rice than fried rice.
We know by now most of dishes in this Restaurant. But this night, this charactered waiter brought one dish
we had never seen or couldn’t see. It was on silver plate and shiny half ball like silver cover over it. “Enjoy
your dinner” said waiter and he went to serve other customer before I could ask what it is.
Anyway all dishes are always good and they never disappoint us, so we start eating. When just about I was
reaching to silver cover, the corner opened a bit by itself and
we could see eyes and a beak. It went down quickly. “What
the….” Kay and I looked each other and looking for words,
then it opened a bit again. This time we saw feather and eyes
and a beak looking at us and shut the cover again. It still alive
and I know Japanese eat raw fish and live prawn but I don’t
know any Chinese dish have such a meal. I stopped this character waiter whom just passed by and asked him what this dish
was. He looked annoyed and looked at his trusted order paper
and said “Oh….. I thought you ordered……..PEEKING DUCK”.
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January 2007 Volume 10
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GARDEN OF THE MONTH
Kenrokuen
Garden in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central
Honshu. With “Kairakuen” and “Korakuen”, one of
the three most famous gardens in Japan.
It was laid out in 1822 as the garden of the daimyo
Maeda Narinaga (1782-1824). The remains of Kanazawa Castle are located near the garden.
Area 25 acres.
For the landscaper like me, this garden is the one
of best garden I can study . I can easily spend one
full day in there to see how stepping stones are
laid out or where they placed accent stones in the
garden and in the stream or……...balance between
Pine trees and Maple trees.
You will see sea of Iris in the streams in May and
find out where Monet got ideas from for his garden
with Bridge and Iris.
Within this “Kaiyu” (Many-pleasure) garden are a
variety of miniature landscapes. Across
“Kasumigaike pond”, the delicate pines are
dressed with protective ropes known as “Yukizuri”
to deflect the heavy snowfall and prevent damage
to the trees.
We will be visiting this garden in 2007 tour in May.
Sex is like air.
It only becomes really
important when you
aren't getting any.
J a p a n es e G a rd en E-n ews
TAKE
Women’s rule for Men
We don’t shave our legs every day, get over it.
Hans Margolius: Cute Love Quotes
One man all by himself is nothing.
Two people who belong together make a world.
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