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。)
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。)
Mihamaen is the small Japanese-style garden of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
(見浜園は小さな日本庭園です。)
Duck too? Cold?
(鴨も寒いのカモ)
Camellia hiemalis.
(寒椿, Kantsubaki)
Keep out!
(立ち入り禁止!)
This is near the tea-ceremony room.
(茶室の近くです。)
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。)
"心洗" is "Beautiful mind" in english.
(心洗は、まあ美しい心でいいのかな。)
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。)
Powdered green tea.
(抹茶)
A carp
(鯉)
**Map of Mihamaen**(見浜園の地図)
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Thank you for reading.