Japan: One of my favourite countries

Well, when someone who don’t know much about Japan have to talk about it, he surely says that Japan is a an island, in the Pacific Ocean. Maybe some people want to go further, saying that Japan is the worldwide leader in technology. And there’s some of these people who know about the traditional Japan.
I don’t know much about traditions or manners of Japanese people, but I know one thing as minimum... And that’s Japan most important thing for me: In that country, the flowers have a very strong presence, and are the protagonists of some traditional rituals, like Ikebana, which consists on making compostion with flowers/plants in a recipient (bowl,...), normally made of ceramic.

Yes, it can be a little weird coming from a boy to talk about flowers, but I don’t mind. I love to watch flowers. I love to smell their sweet fragance, touching softly their petals to sense their mildness. The flowers are very important in my life, because I relay them with my feelings and some significant memories.
That’s why I like Japan. I want to travel there to feel free for doing that, without the typical people with prejudices about boys watching flowers. Here, in Spain, you can’t do that; maybe you can ignore those people, but that can evolute into a bulling situation, or you can feel very violent, because it’s a sensitive moment. One of my dreams is to watch the cherry flowers falling in the floor with my couple. I’ve seen it on videos, but it’s not the same.

Here you can know more about Ikebana: Here.


And for extra, this is a friend’s blog for learning Japanese. It’s in Spanish: Here.


Photo source: My camera!