Twin Tails and Ice Princes The emotional roller coaster episode. Alice is afraid of choking to death on mochi. Mochi pounding festival memories. Arcade decline update. Are those cherry blossoms already?!? We’ve come full circle. Alice gets angry at Starbucks sakura merch resellers.  Olympic pressure and toxic politics. Let us in! Alice gets cranky about foreigners who stay in their bubble. Alice gets emotional remembering the Ramen Lord of Joetsu-shi. Longing for affordable arts and crafts classes. Alice goes Ron Swanson. Twin Tail Day and other uniquely Japanese holidays. Deadly Mochi Mochi Pounding @ Nakatanidou , Nara Japan Natural Dyeing in Ide Town Kyoto. 野の花草木染工房 京都府井手町 Sumiyama Pottery Village in Uji-CityＫyoto. 炭山陶芸村： 京都府宇治市 Japan Twin Tail Association Savvy Tokyo’s Guide to Japanese Faux Holidays Thanks for listening. Stay safe and healthy. Feel free to send any questions, comments, or business inquiries to natsukashiipodcast@gmail.com You can also send us a voicemail through Anchor’s voice messaging system Social Media Natsukashi Facebook ( You can listen, rate, and review here now as well) Natsukashii Instagram Alice's Instagram Alice's YouTube Alice’s Twitter Alice’s Darkroom Photos For Sale (including ichigogare and hanami) Support Please support Natsukashii by following, rating, and reviewing us on your favorite listening platform or by subscribing for a small monthly fee at Anchor https://anchor.fm/natsukashii/support. Your contribution helps sustain the podcast. If you're not ready to subscribe but want to contribute you can also leave a tip at https://ko-fi.com/natsukashiipodcast Natuskashii is: Host: Melody Alice VO Audio Engineer and Editor: Marty Sheldon

Hello, happy new year and welcome to Natsukashii the podcast where I reminisce about all the things that we love and miss about living in Japan. This time I'm talking about Oshogatsu, fukubukuro or lucky bags, kagami mochi, horoyai, and missing friends overseas.

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This episode is a little different. It's a more casual episode even though it's a long one. Turn it up and listen to the last of the summer cicadas as we talk about some of the movies, books, and activities that have been getting us through 2021 so far, along with the usual tangents as we remember our time in Japan. Enjoy. 

Movies and Anime

Cathode TV
Cathode TV Instagram

Letterboxd
Alice's Letterboxd profile 

Odd Taxi

Books (Fiction)

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Books (Non-fiction)

Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball by Robert Whiting

Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes by Winifred Bird

Art Activities

Suminagashi - the Japanese art of silk or paper marbling (Starter Kit)

Renga and haiku

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Tokyo parks ban hanami this year.

https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/tokyo-parks-are-banning-cherry-blossom-picnics-this-year-030921

Love Hotels and Ichigo Gari (strawberry picking)

An Uncertain Future For Japan's Love Hotels - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/16/an-uncertain-future-for-japans-love-hotels-in-pictures

$8 Strawberries: https://nationalpost.com/life/food/before-you-lose-your-cool-over-an-8-strawberry-consider-the-effort-put-into-growing-it

Strawberry Farm Kujiranami

http://www.farm-kujiranami.com/

AAPI Organizations:61 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html

ToshikiGirl: AAPI Charity Sticker. All proceeds from this item will be donated to the Stop AAPI Hate fundraiser.

https://toshikigirl.com

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Background music is The Fountain of Living Waters by Siddhartha Corsus and used under CC international license.

In this first episode of the Natsukashii Podcast, we talk about how much we miss attending hanami, cherry blossom viewing, and Comiket, a bi-annual doujinshi convention in Tokyo. Hanami Bloom Schedule: https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/19704665/ 50 Hanami Videos from 2020: https://weathernews.jp/s/sakura/vr/index.html Current Blooming Sakura in 4K: https://www.youtube.com/c/JapanBackpackersXpress Fuji Shibazakura Festival Official Site(EN):  https://www.shibazakura.jp/ Comiket, Anime Expo, and Naka-Con Conventions both abroad and local. Fan made doujinshi and goods, cosplay, manga, and anime related events. Comiket Official Site (JP): https://www.comiket.co.jp/ Comic Market’s Twitter (JP): https://twitter.com/comiketofficial Comic Market’s Facebook (EN): https://www.facebook.com/ComicMarketOfficial/ Comic Market 45th Anniversary Book: https://animate.shop/products/1872028 Anime Expo 30th Anniversary 2021 (California): http://anime-expo.org Naka-Con (Midwest/MO) : http://www.naka-con.com Thanks for listening. Stay safe and healthy. We’ll be talking about Love Hotels and Strawberry Farms next time. Two very different date related activities. Feel free to send any questions,  comments, or business inquiries to natsukashiipodcast@gmail.com You can also send us a voicemail through Anchor’s voice messaging system to include on the next episode. Social Media Linkage Stuffs Natsukashi Facebook: https://facebook.com/natsukashiipodcast Natsukashii Instagram: https://instagram.com/natsukashiipodcast Alice’s Twitter:  https://twitter.com/melodyalicevo Alice’s Darkroom Photos For Sale (including ichigoame and hanami): http://melodyalicevo.darkroom.tech Support Please support Natsukashii by following on your favorite listening platform or through our page at Anchor anchor.fm/natsukashii/support so that we can continue to bring you Japan related content. You can also leave a tip at https://ko-fi.com/natsukashiipodcast Background music is The Fountain of Living Waters by Siddhartha Corsus and used under CC international license.