Hydrangea in the garden !

by Kazu

Every summer, the courtyard of Aoyama Bettei "Kihinkan" in the Port City Otaru is filled up with the flowers of hydrangea. Red, blue, sky blue and purple flowers decorate the garden so nicely. My wife was eager to visit there with Japanese traditional attire on that day.

It was not so hot for a sunny day in July. It was not so tough to wear Japanese kimono in the bright sunshine on that day. I wore shorts and tunk-top.

My wife makes a point of not urging me to wear Japanese traditional attire. Sometimes I wear Japanese kimono with my wife for Japanese traditional tea ceremony or dinner. We have to hand down our own culture to the next generation, showing the coolness of that.