As a grade level, students have been asked to take pictures of items that represent the history, geography and culture of Japan. We will be using these photos and comments to develop an understanding of how history and geography shape a culture.
Add comments or questions in English or Japanese in order to help us really develop a deeper understanding of Japan.
While at a train station, we discovered this machine going up and down the
stairs. The delivery men weren't straining their bodies. Technology was
doing the hardest work.
Furikake is crushed and driedfood. If you can put furikake onto rice, you
can eat delicious rice. For example, the furikake maker crushesdried
vegetable for making vegetable furikake, and crushes dried fish to
makefish furikake. It is convenient so you can take it outside of your
home.
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Monkeys sitting in a hot spring (onsen) to keep warm at the Monkey Park in
Nagano.
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Yakitori means grilled bird, because originally the Japanese used sparrows.
But today they use jidori chickens (free range) that are from near Mount Fuji.
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This is the special charcoal they use for Yakitori. It iscalled Binchotan
and is made of Japanese Holm Oak from Wakayama Prefecture.
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These fotos are made at Satty and I think fish is important to Japan
because they have a fish market and have a lot of fish restaurants.
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