Mihamaen(見浜園)

 I took a stroll around Mihamaen of Mihama-ku, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

In January 2014.

(千葉県美浜区の見浜園をぶらぶらと散歩しました。)

The admission ticket is 100 yen.

(入場券は100円です。)

The ticket of powdered green tea and the Japanese sweet is 400 yen.

(抹茶と和菓子の券は400円です。)

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The New Year's decorative pine trees.

(門松)

I went to the New Year of 2014.

(お正月に行きました。)

 

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Mihamaen is the small Japanese-style garden of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

(見浜園は小さな日本庭園です。)

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Duck too? Cold?

(鴨も寒いのカモ)

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Camellia hiemalis.

(寒椿, Kantsubaki)

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Keep out!

(立ち入り禁止!)

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This is near the tea-ceremony room.

(茶室の近くです。)

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I tasted the green tea and sweets while watching the garden.

(庭を見ながら抹茶と和菓子を楽しみました。)

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"心洗" is "Beautiful mind" in english.

(心洗は、まあ美しい心でいいのかな。)

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A Japanese sweet and origami.

(和菓子と折り紙。)

The origami is a horse.

(折り紙は馬です。)

Japan has the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(日本には十二支があります。)

Each year has a symbolic animal.

(それぞれの年に、動物の名前が付いています。)

The cycle is completed every twelfth year.

(干支は12年で一回りします。)

This is the year the horse.

(今年は馬です。)

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Powdered green tea.

(抹茶)

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A carp

(鯉)

 

**Map of Mihamaen**(見浜園の地図)

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