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Thanks my Alaska friend. Have ever done any fishing on any of your numerous trips to Japan, obviously not for Koi, but for any sport fish? I know that you enjoy fishing in Alaska.A Sequel to the Koi Search:
In this minute long video watch dozens of the beautiful Japanese Koi as they swim under the branches of a Cherry Tree in bloom. This intended visual treat offered for meditation and reflection is accompanied by the soothing sounds of the pond's flowing waters.
This video, also filmed during the first week of April, is one of three one-minute features filmed at Sangetsu Garden and posted on my YouTube Channel. The other two are titled, "Listen to the soothing waters of an Open Air Onsen Public Bath under the Cherry Blossoms in Hakone, Japan," and the one above, "Find the Darting Koi in this Mesmerizing Reflecting Pond at Hakone Japan's Sangetsu Garden."
The Sangetsu Garden is located in the mountain-side valley adjacent to Yoshiike Onsen located within walking distance of Hakone Yumoto train station. The garden was once part of the private estate built by a Mitsubishi tycoon in 1904.
Included in the garden is a teahouse that was relocated from the Summer Palace of an early 1800s Tokugawa Shogun who ruled Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Admiral Perry and his Black Ships brought a reopening of a Japan that had been under isolation for the some 250 years that the Tokugawa Clan had held power during the Samurai Era
Thanks. My friend here in Alaska who authors the YouTube Channel "Outdoor Boys" took his family to Japan last year and he filmed a video on their fishing in Japan efforts. Watching that is as close as I have gotten to casting a hook there although decades ago I was present for ocean net fishing on Noto Peninsula north of Kanazawa where the recent earthquake struck.Thanks my Alaska friend. Have ever done any fishing on any of your numerous trips to Japan, obviously not for Koi, but for any sport fish? I know that you enjoy fishing in Alaska.
Wow my Alaska amigo. I need to get back to Anchorage to do some fishing with you and take your course on Japanese history. Maybe in 2025. I've already booked 2 sub-arctic fishing trips for 2024.Thanks. My friend here in Alaska who authors the YouTube Channel "Outdoor Boys" took his family to Japan last year and he filmed a video on their fishing in Japan efforts. Watching that is as close as I have gotten to casting a hook there although decades ago I was present for ocean net fishing on Noto Peninsula north of Kanazawa where the recent earthquake struck.
Elaborating on my above posting, here is added historical information regarding the referenced teahouse:
For the history aficionados here is a take on the history of an iconic Japanese Teahouse from the pre 1867 Edo Era prefaced by movie history related to the early 1950s novel/play/movie "The Teahouse of the August Moon."
In homage to the classic 1956 Movie, "The Teahouse of the August Moon," the 1953 Broadway Play from which it was adapted, and the original 1951 Novel, all of the same name, here is my photo tribute.
First, a little background regarding "The Teahouse of the August Moon." The teahouse in the book, play, and movie was the product of well intentioned efforts by the occupation forces in Okinawa to assist the locals. In the movie Marlon Brando as the interpreter, along with a geisha played by Japanese Actress Machiko Kyo, play pivotal roles in repurposing an intended school house and social center into the eventually built teahouse that the locals preferred.
In the movie's trailer, when the teahouse comes into view, the narrator elaborates:
"When the sun sets it is the custom to visit the Teahouse of the August Moon and there to meditate, absorb the customs and culture passed along through the centuries."
Pictured below are my exterior photos of an actual teahouse that was built during the Edo a/k/a Samurai Period in Japan prior to 1867. Now relocated within the historic Sangetsuen Garden adjacent to Yoshiike Onsen Ryokan, this teahouse was actually built for the 16th in succession Tokugawa Shogun ruler of Japan.
(See the included below pictured plaques offering more details about the history of the teahouse and Sangetsuen Garden.)
The last below pictured interior photo with its symbolic "August Moon" lighting I took in Wakayama Japan.
That sounds like fun, but the Alaska Guy who really knows fishing is my friend Luke of the Outdoor Boys YouTube Channel with its millions of subscribers. If you could get him to join you that would be epic. (I did get to spend an afternoon with him on an ice fishing venture at my neighborhood lake.)Wow my Alaska amigo. I need to get back to Anchorage to do some fishing with you and take your course on Japanese history. Maybe in 2025. I've already booked 2 sub-arctic fishing trips for 2024.
I used to put together photo books until Costco eliminated their photo department.Thanks my Alaska friend. You need to put all this info and your photos into a book, and I want a copy!