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Now we're in the depressing rainy season of June.
Though it's fine today, it had been raining a few days in a row until yesterday. It seems that the unpleasant weather will continue some more weeks before summer comes.
As many of you know, the humidity is very high in Japanese summer, let alone the rainy season. It's hot and humid especially recently because warming by the greenhouse effect is, of course also here, influences the heat of our summer. The temperature is clearly higher than that of many years ago. Still summer is far better than winter for me as I can't stand the cold weather.
By the way, the theme of the handcraft frame in the picture above is the rainy season called tsuyu in Japanese. The items express the old fashioned Japanese summer.
If the cherry blossoms are the flowers of April and the azaleas are that of May, the flowers of June are hydrangeas in Japan. Many of purple ones are in the frame. And at the bottom of them, there is a wooden tarai, which means a wash tub. That is also a symbolic item of old fashioned Japan. A wood rack is also there next to the tub. Some gardening tools are on the rack.
Then there are an umbrella and the beads which are rain drops around the frame. And more, see the small doll is pinned with a brown ribbon at the right top of the frame. It's called teru treu bouzu, which is usually made of paper to pray for fine weather. Though it's a small frame, it contains full of funny items, doesn't it?
Anyway, now summer is approaching. I'm looking forward to go to Gion Festival in Kyoto next month. It's hot and humid but there are also a lot of pleasures in summer here. I love it!
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