The elegant sake flavor is reminiscent of a sweet flower. The flavor is rich, but it disappears in a breath when you swallow down the sake, like a fairy. “Sakunohana spec d” is one of the greatest sakes brewed by Sakunohana shuzo. It has rich flower-like flavor and a clear after taste.

“Spec d” is the code name of Nagano kobo D, which was a sake yeast developed by Nagano Prefecture General Industrial Technology Center in 2006. Sakunohana shuzo has been making sake with Nagano kobo since it was developed.

“Sakunohana spec d” is a junmai ginjo sake. Junmai sake is made of only rice, water and yeast, no distilled alcohol added. Sakunohana bottles only junmai and spec d sake in a blue bottle.

The ingredient rice is “Hitogokochi”, it is the local sake rice in Nagano prefecture. Sakunohana shuzo was established in 1892. Since then, they have kept their own rice fields. There are few sake breweries which have their own rice fields.

Mr. Takahashi, the president of Sakunohana shuzo has been sticking to the basics of brewing sake. He says, “Keep the basics with rationalized methods, it is the best way to make fine sake.”

Mr. Takahashi said “By drinking our sake, I hope more people will become interested in the Japanese rice culture.” Sakunohana spec d complements authentic Japanese dishes. You can enjoy Japanese food much more with this sake.

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Gujo Hachiman is a very small town, deep in the mountains. The traffic is brutal, it looks to be a hidden town. That is why the town keeps its natural environment and traditional lifestyle.

You will be surprised that the town is neat and orderly. Gujo Hachiman has long history of about 400 years. The crystal rivers runs all over the town, and people use it in their daily life.
Of course the water from those rivers is clean and safe. You can enjoy playing in those rivers at ease. There are no factories or fields which discharge pollution.

The people in Gujo Hachiman call their town “The town of water” with pride. They have been trying to keep the beautiful water and town. In general, the summer in Japan is very hot and humid, but It is comparatively cool in Gujo Hachiman.

Gujo Hachiman has 2 famous unique features. Firstly, the “Gujo Odori (Gujo dance)”.
Gujo Odori is the largest Bon dance event in Japan. The small town seethes with exciting people wearing Yukata. The bon dance includes 10 kinds of steps, but you can easily learn them. From beginners to experts, they dance together all night. Gujo Odori is held every July and August.

Secondly, food models. Gujo Hachiman is well known as a production center for wax food samples. These food samples look exactly like the real food and you can try to make the samples.

In addition, Gujo Hachiman has various appeals as the beautiful sakura and autumn leaves and so on. Although my most recommended season is summer, you can enjoy the town from spring to autumn.

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The time-lapse motion picture looks like a miniature set, but it is a real night view of Osaka. Osaka is a large and teeming city, there are many people and cars gather day and night.

The movie was taken from the Umeda Sky Building which is the tallest building in Umeda. Shinnosuke took some time-lapse motion pictures in Osaka and Kyoto, and his beautiful and active movies are a lot of fun to watch.

When you watch the movies you can feel the bustling atmosphere in Osaka. The city looks like a toy box!

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Japanese summer is hot and humid. When you go out from your house, you sweat profusely.
But if you eat anmitsu, the heat of summer will vanish immediately!

Anmitsu is one of the most popular Japanese sweets in summer. It means bean jam, agar, and pieces of fruit served in syrup. You can eat it everywhere in Japanese cafes but I will introduce an especially delicious place in Tokyo this time.
Mihashi is a long-established sweet store which was founded in 1948. The main store is in Ueno, but there are another 6 stores in and around Tokyo. Although there are many sweet stores in Tokyo,　this one is famous for having a strong obsession for the ingredients. They always use Bean jam (adzuki beans) from Tokachi in Hokkaido. The brown sugar is from the south island 200km to the left of Okinawa.

The lightly coloured syrup between black syrup and white syrup. Agar is made from agar-agar blended in Miyake island, Hachijyou island, and Koudzu island.

Creamed anmitsu is 530 yen. Agar, syrup, red peas, bean jam, and oranges are topped with thick soft cream. It tastes very smooth. The Agar is chewy and fresh.
If you go there in the daytime of a weekend, maybe you have to have line up to eat it, but eating anmitsu in the hot summer must be very delicious!

(Translated by Humi)

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The humorous glass is the symbol of Japan, Mt, Fuji shaped. It looks a mountain which has snow on the top when it is filled with foamy beer.

Despite the stout design, the glass is very thin. Sugahara excels at making thin glasses, their glasses are very popular in that they bring out the flavor of the drinks. The Fujiyama glass is made by hand one by one carefully as are other Sugahara glasses.

You can make various types of mountains with this glass. If you fill it with tomato juice, it becomes red Fuji. The glass fires your imagination.

It is sold in a special solid Paulownia wood box, like a Japanese authentic tea cup. Why don’t you enjoy Japan with this humorous glass?

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The MacBook Pro case looks a mid-century modern style. It is suitable for MacBook Pro 13.
It has very simple outside and stylish liner. The style will show your accomplished sense.

The case is as thin as 3mm and made of 100% soft cotton, you can roll up it when it is empty.

Suono has produced more stylish gadget cases, for Nintendo DS, iPhone, cameras, and so on. They are also made of cotton, and protect your gadgets if they are dropped or bumped.

Not too simple, not too childish.– The gadget cases show your character casually but impressively.

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The bookshelf is angled at a 4 degree angle. It is designed to protect books from distortion.

When there are gaps on a bookshelf, one book leans against another book so it damages the book cover or bends the book. With this bookshelf, all books are gathered by its slant so you can keep all your books looking beautiful.

The bookshelves are stackable, so you can combine them as you like.

Microworks has produced some unique and rational bookshelves. The “Book Box” has bookshapes cut out of it so you can put your books in precise holes.

The “Pile up” is suitable to pile up books. It becomes a bookend when it is full of books.

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Some grass grows in the books so that the books look like flower pots.

The grass are sticky notes. The grass grows when you find an interesting point in the book.
The density of the grass represents your intellectual curiosity.

This unique sticky notes are also suitable as a gift.

Grow your mind like grass!

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What do you associate with summer? In Japan, fireworks are the real feeling of summer. We wear yukata (Japanese traditional costumes), go to festivals, eat or play something at stalls, and watch fireworks. This is the standard style in Japan and used as a date spot.

By the way, there are toy sparklers in our country. This is an epoch-making thing. Because we can play with sparklers (fireworks) easily very much. In fact, you can enjoy very much if you play with them with your family, friends, and boy or girl friend. Generally, these are made for children but can enjoy regardless of age or sex because sparklers are very safe if you don’t use them wrong.
For example, waving sparklers or pointing them to someone.

“senkou fireworks” is one of the most popular sparklers among Japanese. Senkou means an incense stick in Japan and this figure is similar to incense stick. This sparkler is very short-lived but very beautiful. If you get toy fireworks, you
should try to this!

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The brass crescent moon on the left is a bottle opener.
The unique texture of brass seems like the surface of the moon.

The other 2 objects are also bottle openers, they are unique and stylish too.
They don’t look like bottle openers, but you can open a bottle very easily with them.

FUTAGAMI is an established casting manufacturer which has been in business for over 100 years.
Their products are modern, sophisticated and high quality.

You can put the crescent on the bottle neck. Its beautiful shape will attract your guests at a party.
The crescent will warm up your night!

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