My ever-blooming sakura tree

Welcome to our third #sakurandom event! It is a pleasure for me to meet you all once a year sharing inspiring things of what we like the most about the hanami season even without being in Japan!

Remember my first-time-Ikebana of last year? I did love the result so, inspired by a quite different project seen on Kinfolk Volume Eight (page 92), I put myself into something very smart: an ever-blooming sakura tree made by origami. What a great idea for all those who live in still quite freezing places not yet ready for blooming! 

Enjoy your hanami ;)

Origami tutorial here

{sorry for my super bad pics of that but I've broken my camera and still trying to fix it}

#sakurandom 2015 {third edition}

Start the countdown: #sakurandom 2015 is finally back, ready to bloom!

This is the third edition of our social hanami, an on-line-appointment for those who want to share some “cherry blossom” inspirations even without being in Japan having a pic-nic under a sakura tree (and for nostalgic ones, of course). Just pick your smartphone and share pics, theme recipes, illustrations, poems, thoughts … whatever inspires you! Everyone is invited, just show you up next week-end on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest using our favorite hashtag: #SAKURANDOM. We’re waiting for you and your friends to come!

 

Previous editions:
> First
> Second

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B&W

A new week is about to start. Here you are some B&W inspirations too much great not to share with you straight from my dedicated Pinterest board. 

All these pictures come from the 1950s when Japan started open mind and boundaries to the Western way of life. In all of them you can breath that "everything's new and possible" sensation. Japanese welcomed all these changes with big smiles, surprise feelings and unexpected enthusiasm.
Enjoy!

1958. A young Japanese woman in a kimono playing with Hula-Hoop. (Mitsunori Chigita)

1949. Dancers resting on the rooftop of SKD Theatre in Asakusa. (Takeyoshi Tanuma)

1950. Ginza. (Toni Schneiders)

1958. Two young girls in kimono in a street near the almost completed Tokyo Tower.

1958. Streets of Tokyo. (Marc Riboud)

1954. Ginza skyline. (Kimura Ihee)

1958. Telephoning home. (Marc Riboud)