Natalia Ciuchta

The decision about becoming a vegetarian is not really easy but I think I would comfort it. Knowing that being 100% vegetarian is better for me or our planet would help me stay with this decision. What I mean by "being 100% vegetarian" is that I am a half vegetarian. I gave up eating meat like beef, chicken, pork etc. but I am still eating fish. I just can not stop eating fish. But I would try to do this because of a good of Earth.

Is the £600 per night at the Mandarin Oriental good value of money? I have to say of course it is. The hotel offers a lot of luxury services which we will not find in others, cheaper hotels. For example, in our hotels, we will never find the possibility to order washing our clothes or order something to eat in the middle of the night. Furthermore, we will meet there qualified staff who will do everything to make us feel the best while staying in the hotel. Naturally, we can find a less expensive place to feel good, comfortable and even luxurious but this place is worth the money.

Bunraku puppets and puppeteers Bunraku is traditional Japanese puppet theatre. The puppets consist of hundreds moving parts. Each one puppet is controlled by three highly trained puppeteers. Some puppets can transform from human to supernatural forms such as demons before the audience's eyes. Takarazuka Review Takarazuka female actresses The group of all-female theatre troops founded in 1914 by a powerful Japanese industrialist. It is a unique theatre company which perform western style musicals with melodramatic plots. They sell around 2.5 million tickets a year. The audience usually consists of 90 percent of women. After each performance, Takarazuka fan clubs wait outside the theatre to see the actresses as they depart. Members stand in a strict order based on their status within the club as they wait. This is an amazing spectacle as it is unusual to see hundreds of people standing in a perfectly straight line. Dancing Geishas Geisha Dances There...

Kabuki actors Kabuki is a type of Japanese dance-drama in which all roles are played by male actors. it historically created in pleasure districts and plays ran all night surrounded by food and drinks. Kabuki actors' names take the stage of their teacher, who is often their father or grandfather. they are first expected to live up to the height oh their teacher's career in terms of spirit, style, and skill. Noh actors Noh is a type of traditional dance-drama performed in masks. It is a unique art because all Noh plays are performed by only five schools. These schools have passed their traditions down for centuries. The masks are wooden and some of them have the ability to show different emotions by facing the audience from different angles. Kyogen actors Kyogen is a type of traditional comedy that features stock characters such a master and servant. It is heavy in slapstick and satire. Although actors are using an archaic version of the Japanese lang...

Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Inari Taisha) is an important Shinto shire. It is located in southern part of Kyoto. It is famous for the thousands vermilion torii gates, which surround the paths behind the temple. The paths lead into the forest of the sacred Mount Inari. The temple is the most important of several thousands of shrines dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice. We can see there many of fox statues. The reason of this is that foxes are thought to be Inari’s messengers. The foxes often hold the key in their mouths. They symbolize the keys to the granaries. At the very back of the shrine's main grounds is the entrance to the torii gate-covered hiking trail. It starts with two compact, parallel rows of gates called Senbon Torii ("thousands of torii gates"). The gates along the trail are are donations by individuals and companies whose names and dates of donation you will find inscribed on the back of each gate.The cost starts around 400,000 yen for a smal...

The Japanese tea ceremony, Chanoyu, is a choreographic ritual unique to Japan that features preparing and serving green tea-Matcha. The ready infusion is served together with traditional Japanese sweets to balance with the bitter taste of the tea. During this ceremony preparing tea means pouring all one's attention into the predefined movements. The whole event is not about drinking tea. It is about aesthetics, preparing a bowl of tea from one's heart. The host of the ceremony always performs every movement and gesture with a thought about guests. Even the placement of the tea utensils is considered from the guests' viewpoint, especially the main guests called the Shokyaku. Everything is done in a traditional clothing.   A full-length ceremony takes about 4 hours and includes a meal and two servings of tea. In Zen philosophy, the tea ceremony is a spiritual process during the participants remove themselves from the mundane world, seeking harmony and inner peace. Pla...

Shinto is a major religion in Japan alongside Buddhism and it does not have a founder. The literally meaning of Japanese word "Shinto" is "the way of the gods". Also, Shinto has sacred scriptures like the sutras in Buddhism or the Bible in Christianity. The Shinto gods are called "kami" and they are represented as sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life like wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers etc. Humans become kami after they die. The number of Shinto's gods is about 8 million or even more because everything that is unusual like a really big tree can be a god. The most important "kami" is the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. One of the Shinto myths says that her great-grandson was the first emperor of Japan. Sun Goddess Amaterasu. The most important and sacred shrine – Ise Jingu. This shire is dedicated to Goddess Amaterasu. sources: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2056.html h...