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GREETING

#234 New Year, 2026

#1 GREETING
Past issues of GREETING

2026 is a year of  Horse.
Run free, run wild!

Beautiful things
Hello, dear friends.
How have you been?
My husband and I are not very well, but still all right.
We are not travelling much now.
So I would like to show you some beautiful things around us we saw in 2025.

 
  January
A big rainbow beyond our buildings.
 
   February
Camellia flowers.
My favorite.
   
   March
Cherry blossoms and Karatsu Castle
   
 
April
Pine trees are getting ready to fly their pollen.
Fortunately, pine pollen does not cause allergy.
Cedar does.
 
   May
A view of Karatsu Bay and the pine forest seen from the top of Mt. Kagami.
Wheat is ripen.
   
  June
 Mikaeri Waterfall with the hydrangea flowers
 
   .July
Sunset behind our building.
Do you see Karatsu Castle right to the sun?
   
   August
The time of Obon Festival
Our ancestors come home from the other world for a short while. Lotus flower is the symbol of Buddhism.

   
  September
Licorice flower blooms at Higan, Autumn Equinox. So this is called Higan Bana(flower)
.It looks like Nerine, but a little different.
A spangle was drinking the honey from the flower.
Higan is also an important time in Buddhism.
   
   October
Autumn sky
   
   November
Tsuwabuki
Leopard Plant (Farfugium japnicum) Also called Japanese silver leaf.
After the flower, it flies much fluff.
Next year, you will have many new sprouts. Sometimes too many.

   
   December
On December 5'th night, we had the last supermoon of 2025.
Good-bye until the next full moon.
I see the moon and the moon sees me.
God bless the moon and God bless me.

   
   Snow purifies everything.
If you had something bad last year, please let this picture purifiy your unfavorable luck.

Dear friends, stay well, and good bye for a while.
I will be back. 

 
Thank you for visiting this page.
I hope you will return.





Harumi Okochi
Proprietress
Yoyokaku
mail to: info@yoyokaku.com