Easter in Japan

In Japan, Easter is not celebrated. But on the other hand, a lot of rites, like rabbits and egg seaching were old traditions from older nature religions to rejoyce Spring and fertility. Like every year, we celebrate our Easter exactly that way ^^

A lovely walk in the nature, enjoying the blossom of different flowers and healing herbs...

On the picture above you see for example Esoengozaku... it's root is good against pain-relief, but we don't pick it down here. It's very rare in the south and you need to climb about at least 800m high to see it. It' such a lovely humble flower with a vibrant blue. The yellow and the purple one grow mostly here, but they are poisenous.

And here you see a carpet of Anemonae... Nirinsou in Japanese... also very rare here in the south.

Tsutsuji/Rhododnendron is awesome over here as well...

And here you see gentian. It grows everywhere in Spring and Autumn in the mountains near Fukuoka.

This is Shakunage... don't know the english name...

...we walked about 10km that day, but not only to see the flowers. To celebrate Easter properly, you always need to search, right ?!? Not eggs in our case, but...

Bamboo-sprouts...

Warabi...

Udo (aralia cordata)

Shiode

AND MORELS ^________^ 

And so we had our Easter-dinner, straigt from Mother nature...

HAPPY EASTER !!!!! HAPPY OSTARA !!!! HAPPY, HAPPY SPRING !!!!