Pond lily and Goldfish(SUIREN TO KINGYO)

I bought goldfishes yesterday.
KINGYO WO KATTE KIMASHITA.
I put them in a pond after let them become accustomed the new water for a while.
IKE NI HANATTE OKIMASHITA.
Everyone was swimming actively when I look them this morning.
MINNA GENKI NI OYOIDE IMASU.

What I bought are WAKIN, the cheapest and tiny kind of goldfishes.
The price is 15 yen per a fish.
I bought 10 goldfishes.
WATASHI WA JUPPIKI KAIMASHITA.

They are sold cheaply because they might not be selected when the seller choose goldfishes which are dealt by high price as pets.

WAKIN are also used for "Goldfish scooping" KINGYO-SUKUI game which is the typical stall in Japanese summer festival.
In KINGYO-SUKUI, we try to get many goldfishes until the breaking of  POI.

YABURERU MADE KINGYO WO SUKUU which is paper net for KINGYO-SUKUI.

The white fish next a goldfish is Japanese killifish.(MEDAKA).
Japanese killifishes used to be every ponds and rivers in old time, but now they have been rare by the changing of environment.

So I also bought it at a pet shop.

This is a fish counter at a pet booth in DIY store.
The shop staff put goldfishes that I bought inside vinyl bag.

In summer, many kind of goldfishes are sold there.
Goldfishes are the image of summer in Japan!

By the way!
I wrote that "My pond" just now, "pond" is just the name of place that my family call.
It is actually・・・how  can i say・・・?

My husband made this one that is adapt to a barrel of Japanese whisky manufacturer.
KAIZOU SHITE TSUKURI MASHITA.
The water of the pond circulates by the pump for water tank for aquarium inside the barrel.

He said that he wants the sound of flow of water when he and I make this garden.
But our garden is too small to make brook for brooklet, so we made the compact water flow like this.
When we open the window, we can hear the sound of water flow (MIZU NO NAGARERU OTO GA KIKOEMASU) even we are inside.
I feel that is cool and fresh in summer.
If there is not the sound of water flow and song by birds  in my garden...I would miss these...

I planted the pond lilies SUIREN WO UEMASHITA in the pond as the hidden house of goldfishes.
when I try to take pictures, they hide soon behind (KAKURETE SHIMAIMASU) the leaves of pond lilies.

Speaking of pond lilies, the painter Monet in France

made the pond in his garden(TEIEN NI IKE WO TSUKURIMASHITA) ,

build the Japanese bridge is called to TAIKOBASHI(HASHI WO KAKEMASHITA) and made bloom the pond lilies on the pondHANAWO SAKASE MASHITA).
As you know, he drew many pictures of this.
TAKUSAN KAITE IMASUNE.
In fact, there is a garden that embodies Monet's garden in a park which theme is various gardens in Hamamatsu.
In the pond in that garden, the pond lilies which stock is divided from Monet's garden are blooming.

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The Monet's garden in Hamamatsu.
What floating on the pond are the pond lilies from the home Monet's garden.
This is beautiful as if it is a picture, isn't it?
E MITAI NI KIREI DESHO!

By the way, the other day when I wrote about green tea, it had the big response.
You can buy the first Japanese green tea of the season NIHON NO SHINCHA WO KAUKOTOGA DEKIMASU through this web site, in the left side of it.
This is made in Kagoshima where is the 2nd most famous area for green tea folloing Shizuoka, and it is made from tea leaves that was harvested only from the middle to the end of April.
You can enjoy thick taste by using water not too hot.
Why don't you try it?

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