The rainy season is very important for rice. A young rice plant takes in a lot of water, so rain is essential when rice seedlings are transplanted onto a rice field. Good quality of healthy rice can grow with plenty of rain.
Sankayō is a name of a flower that lives in the mountain in Japan & Sakhalin Oblast. It blooms from May through July. The flower is normally white, but it turns clear like ice when it gets wet in the rain. Its scientific name is Diphylleia Grayi, and there is no name in English.
Traditional Japanese scenes (shrines, temples, old style houses, streets, gardens etc.) look particularly lovely in the rain. This is good because it rains often in Japan at certain times of year. Tourists typically prefer to visit during the dry and sunny days, but I still enjoy cloudy skies, and the look and sound of rain on the glistening streets and buildings.
Traditional Japanese scenes (shrines, temples, old style houses, streets, gardens etc.) look particularly lovely in the rain. This is good because it rains often in Japan at certain times of year. Tourists typically prefer to visit during the dry and sunny days, but I still enjoy cloudy skies, and the look and sound of rain on the glistening streets and buildings.
From young to old, most people in Japan use an umbrella in even a light rain. There are lots of umbrella shops throughout Japan, and many different styles of colorful umbrellas.
In a section of Tokyo called Horikiri there is a famous garden of irises (堀切菖蒲園). The flowers in this garden were pictured in ukiyo-e as one of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (produced in 1857 by Hiroshige Utagawa). We hold an iris festival there for about three weeks in June (during a rainy season). You can see 200 different varieties of iris, or 6000 iris plants in this garden.
Teru Teru Bōzu is a doll made out of cloth or paper (I used to make it with tissue) to wish for a sunny day. In the Japanese language “teru” means “(sun) shine” and “bōzu” means “boy”. If you wish tomorrow to be a sunny day, you display your teru teru bōzu under the eaves upright. Some people display it upside down to wish for rain.
Traditional Japanese scenes (shrines, temples, old style houses, streets, gardens etc.) look particularly lovely in the rain. This is good because it rains often in Japan at certain times of year. Tourists typically prefer to visit during the dry and sunny days, but I still enjoy cloudy skies, and the look and sound of rain on the glistening streets and buildings.
We have a rainy season every year in Japan. It arrives first in Okinawa (south) and moves up towards the north. It usually reaches Tokyo around the beginning of June and lasts for about a month to six weeks. This year it has already arrived in Okinawa and should reach Tokyo during the second week of June.
We hold an iris festival there for about three weeks in June (during a rainy season). You can see 200 different varieties of iris, or 6000 iris plants in this garden.
