Red Path 【Beautiful Japan #18】

dbooster (64)in #japan • 7 years ago

Surrounded by the red leaves, it's hard not to stop and enjoy.

This is from inside the grounds of a small tea house near Okazaki Castle. The tea house sells overpriced bowls of matcha to tourists, but they also offer classes training people how to preform tea ceremony. And there are a few traditional tea rooms for those lucky enough to be invited to a tea ceremony.

I am friends with an older Japanese woman who has been training to do tea ceremony for many many years (as with any of these traditional crafts, you have to do it for decades before you might be considered skilled at it, let alone a master). She often invites me to tea ceremony, so I am lucky enough to enjoy it on a fairly regular basis.

The tea house grounds are always well maintained and always lovely, but my favorite season to visit is in autumn when all the Japanese maples that are packed around the grounds turn fire red.

As much as I enjoy the warm bowls of matcha inside, it's hard not to linger out here enjoying the leaves.

(BTW, is anyone else having problems posting to Steemit? I couldn't post my daily haiku yesterday morning, nor could I post this photo last night. Now this morning I have tried posting this five times. Will it work this time...?)

Don't miss the other great photos in the Beautiful Japan photo series!

#1 - The Shogun's Keep
#2 - Gate to the Shogun's Shrine
#3 - The Golden Torii
#4 - Across the Universe
#5 - To Walk With You Under the Cherry Blossoms
#6 - I Once Knew This Place
#7 - Okazaki Tenmangu Shrine
#8 - The White Walls of Zui'nenji
#9 - Curious Kitsune Watches
#10 - Meeting Place of the Kitsune
#11 - What a Blur
#12 - The Watcher at the Shrine
#13 - Giant Torii in Road
#14 - Resting Leaves
#15 - The Family that Drinks Together, Stays Together
#16 - Fire in the Sky
#17 - The Streets of Takayama

Thank you for reading. :)

If you enjoyed this post, please like and resteem. Also be sure to follow me to see more from Japan everyday.

I post one photo everyday, as well as some misc posts such as haiku, videos, more Japanese history, and so on. Let me know if there is anything about Japan you would like to know more about or would like to see.

Hi there

David LaSpina is an American photographer lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time.

#travel #photography #culture #photo

7 years ago in #japan by dbooster (64)

Sort:

minnowpond (62) 7 years ago

@eileenbeach has voted on behalf of @minnowpond. If you would like to recieve upvotes from minnowponds team on all your posts, simply FOLLOW @minnowpond.

    To receive an upvote send 0.25 SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo
    To receive an reSteem send 0.75 SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo
    To receive an upvote and a reSteem send 1.00SBD to @minnowpond with your posts url as the memo

$0.00

[-]

acolucky (64) 7 years ago

Hello. Where I am (Minnesota) the site has gone down, or at least partially down, for a few hours every morning for the last three days. I don't know why, but you are not the first on my reading list to have trouble posting.

$0.00

[-]

maxinpower (73) 7 years ago

Nice photo. Already Kouyou time down there?

$0.00

[-]

dbooster (64) 7 years ago

Thanks! It is a little so far, but not this much yet. This photo is from a few years ago. ;^^

$0.00

[-]

gaman (-5)(1) 7 years ago

Resteemed your article. This article was resteemed because you are part of the New Steemians project. You can learn more about it here: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@gaman/new-steemians-project-launch

$0.00

STEEM 0.16

TRX 0.15

JST 0.028

BTC 54391.40

ETH 2283.95

USDT 1.00

SBD 2.29

Red Path 【Beautiful Japan #18】

Coin Marketplace