No.16
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LOCAL NEWS
Flowers of hospitality in a Japanese-style house in Maiko.
Ikenobo Ikebana Exhibition
Saturday, November 21 to Monday, November 23 (holiday)
Former Kinoshita Residence
Three days of Ikenobo ikebana set in a sukiya-style house. Open 10:00-17:00; on the last day the exhibition closes at 16:00.
Admission is 100 yen for adults, 50 yen for those 70 and over, and free for high school students and younger. A small ikebana workshop is also held: 13:00-15:00, 5 people per day, reservation required, 1,100 yen.
Column by the Third Generation
What a single flower brought us.
The other day, when I went in to clean a room, I found a single flower arranged there. It was from a group of young women from China who stayed several nights and became a bit friendly with us. A stylish gift, quietly left in the room.
We have had fewer guests from the Chinese-speaking world than last year, but I sense they are slowly coming back. It makes me feel how relations between countries and the state of the world reach even the daily life of a small guesthouse like ours.
Even so, the person in front of us is always one traveller. Regardless of nationality, age, gender or disability, we treat each person as an equal and give them the care they need, as best we can.
We who welcome guests receive kindness like this, too. Looking at that single flower, I thought I want to keep valuing the small exchanges that happen between people.
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