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@Tetsujin-28

Жыл бұрын

I just wish you could order 1 box . No subscription.

@anthonynelson6671

Жыл бұрын

You're funny to mention toned down RIGHT after the "I don't know what she's saying but gurl, I am living." restaurant.

@Nadia-ox1kf

Жыл бұрын

sad we didn't get to see your yukata in full length. Have you considered having one of your friend's film some shots so that way there is a variation of up close and further away videos?

@anthonynelson6671

Жыл бұрын

@@Nadia-ox1kf Some traditional, Japanese-fashion-focused topics like this sound quite interesting.

@KarateKim

Жыл бұрын

Such a pretty festival . And I would have bought all the plushies, sad to say, at the Ghibli store. Or, all the planters out front. And you looked so pretty, and elegant in your new ghee (?). I loved the color scheme. You make me smile. 🙂

An older Japanese woman taught me to always remember "Leftover rice" to remember left over right while we were living there! It has always helped me to keep it straight for my yukata and kimono and even my jinbei!

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Love that!!

@valerius8985

Жыл бұрын

That's such a good way to remember!

@leademi1387

Жыл бұрын

That’s an amazing way to remember! I always get confused which is for living and deceased. When I did kendo, the gi had specific internal ties so it was never something I thought about.

@cinematicjapan

Жыл бұрын

This is amazing!! Haha 👏🏻👏🏻

@Mtnred738

Жыл бұрын

That was a lovely festival. Your yukata is awesome. You look great in it. Thank you for sharing

It was so much fun meeting up! Let's do it again at another festival

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Let me know if there are any other cool festivals coming up near Sendai!! 🙌🏻

Chris being a goober at the end xD Those paper cranes were so beautiful! Hopefully I can see them in person one year 🙏 Also Tsuna is so cute! Getting so big ^^bb Ahh, one of the cutest cats ever!!!

@kueapel911

Жыл бұрын

One thing I've learned from cats is that the cuter they are, the more miserable you are. My cat back when she was a kitten often made my day a lot harder but as she grows up, she gradually getting calmer and more snuggly, though she's no longer a kitten. I had to make a trip to kitchen ware store twice in a week cause that lil bugger knocked the dishes I'm washing off the damn counter, twice in that week. Don't get fooled by their cuteness, you fell for it on your own peril.

@TimStamper89

Жыл бұрын

Love a good ball and that's what you get. So my long suffering wife says anyway

@frossiekete

Жыл бұрын

@@kueapel911 You think xD My old cat was a cutie and he was such a sweetie...Maybe I gave him too many treats...

@frossiekete

Жыл бұрын

@@TimStamper89 Don't worry my husband is a goober as well, its all love and well intended hehe

@SuperSarahbop

Жыл бұрын

Being a goober I think is a sign you got a good guy cause they are honest in spite themselves

I was watching some of Sharla’s older videos and I swear this woman does not age. She looks just as young and beautiful as she did in her first videos. Chris is certainly a lucky man.

You look so pretty ❤️ the decorations were so nice, I love that crane one 😍

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Aren’t they so nice!! Come visit during Aug next year and let’s go together🥰🥰 I think my last festival vid was us putting on Yukata for the festival that ended up not existing😂😂

@Obibopbop

Жыл бұрын

❤️🤍❤️

Thank you for sharing your footage from this festival! My husband and I got engaged in Japan during Tanabata and loved the tradition so much we incorporated it into our wedding - we tied our own wishes to bamboo during our ceremony and asked our guests to tie wishes to bamboo as a guestbook. We did attend a festival in Tokyo during our visit and it was so fun! So this made me think of lots of happy memories! 🥰🎋

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

That sounds so nice, what a cute idea🥰🎋

"I'm going to eat this pudding, before Chris gets here" LOL thats hilarious. And also a good idea.

@SezShares

Жыл бұрын

I laughed at this too. I also have to be stealthy with my treat consumption, living with my sweet-toothed husband. 😂

You got the perfect content. Travel, vloggs and fun videos. Add in adorable cats. 😻 Makes my day when I see you post!

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Aww I’m glad you enjoy them!! Thank you🥰

@Killerqueen2000

Жыл бұрын

@@sharlainjapan you're so sweet and wholesome 😍

I wish most of the festivals in Japan didn't happen during summer. I usually visit in autumn because I'm nordic and can't handle the humid heat 😂 We got to go to Takayama during the autumn festival one year though. Very crowdy, but fun!

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Yes totally agree😂 A festival during autumn would be amazingggg. I guess it’s nice that’s there’s ONE thing to look forward to during summer here though😅

@ad.6472

Жыл бұрын

Omg, yes! I hear you!

@VanillaCoke1956

Жыл бұрын

@@sharlainjapan Japanese summer is absolutely terrible. Two months in and near Tokyo when I arrived in June were enough for me to go to Hokkaido for this entire month.

@applesandoranges9916

Жыл бұрын

yukata plastered to your body is part of the experience😂but yeah I agree

@MsBabbi

Жыл бұрын

Are you by chance Norwegian, Klinkekula?😏

Omg, I finally hear Chris speak Japanese! And lol him waving until you turned the camera off. That is a really awesome yukata. And Tuna being a bad boy was funny.

I love that you showed Tuna!! We need to see more of him and Maru together.

@teakara

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you

All the decorations made me tear up, especially the blue paper cranes 💙

@Shiraanri

Жыл бұрын

Glad I wasn’t alone on that one 😅

@FloridaTesfay

Жыл бұрын

I thought something was wrong with me when I teared up as well, it was just so beautiful and meaningful. I'm glad there were others that did as well

It was super fun hanging out with everyone :D Looking forward to next year's Tanabata! Thanks again for inviting me out! (also, Tuna is way too adorable XD)

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Yesss! I hope it’s the proper long ones next year!! 🤞🏻✨✨

@cinematicjapan

Жыл бұрын

Yesssss!!! Can’t wait for next year! 👏🏻👏🏻 I’ll try not to get covid again 😂😅😅😅😅😂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕💕 Looking forward to see you next time!!

@sarge8905

Жыл бұрын

Victor you are looking fresh in the this vid! 🔥 (not to say you don't always)

omg babe youre GLOWING ☺️💕

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Aww thanks babe🥹💞💞💞

The first glimps we get from Chris, is him ordering fried chicken, somethings never change and hopefully never will, god bless you guys...

Tanabata Matsuri is my favourite Japanese holiday, it's beautiful! Here in Brazil, the Japanese community throws a beautiful Tanabata on São Paulo and I'm there whenever I can! ❤ I'm glad to see Sendai's Tanabata!

Japanese Language teacher told about these Festivals. It was nice to see what Tanabata Festival looks like. Also nice to see Ryotaro and Chris!

😳 omg that cat is adorable. & You looked beautiful in your yukata 🥰👍🏾

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Thank youuu🥰

Your outfit was so lovely! Seems Chris is very excited to video-bomb your blogs now that he can lol.

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

What have I done😂

I really like how the Japanese always have a story behind their public holidays. Over here in Australia, we only get a public holiday when the footy is on, when teachers can't be bothered teaching and want a three day weekend and when the queen has a birthday every 8 weeks.

Sharla, the music you choose for your videos is always so perfect, just so chill and mellowing. Keep it up.

I love that there is a beautiful festival to enjoy "just because" of a cute romantic and kind of sad story. What a great excuse to dress up, decorate, and gather! Looks amazing, thanks for taking us with you!

Sharla your yukata was gorgeous 💕 I really love the koi and the accessories 💕 I hope you are having a nice summer 🥰 PS.: Tuna is super cute 🥰 and he has grown so much already hahaha mischievous Tuna as Chris called 🤣🥰

Chris at the end waving like crazy got me 😂

Thanks for putting the music list down in the description!

Lol love Chris’s awkward wave at the end!!

It's so cute and nice knowing that you and Chris are dating here and Tuna is gorgeous😍!!

Such a sad but cute story of the two lovers. Love that the festival is fun though since it is celebrating the one day they could meet and be happy!!! I really love the backstories to most of the festivals and how it is celebrated.

Any time Sharla uploads a vlog is a good time! 💜🎉

Be me, watching the Tanabata decorations and start to cry a little, because they are so beautiful... The cranes really made me tear up the most. I hope everyone had a great Tanabata and a lovely time with family and friends. ~

Girl, your nails are always on point & you look totally adorable in your Yukata! 💜💅

Tanabata is my favourite Japanese Holiday too (but I could be biased because it’s my birthday!) It’s interesting that Sendai tanabata is a different date (August 6th-8th) to the rest of Japan (July 7th)! Your new Yukata is really beautiful! 😻

@AnnaMorimoto

Жыл бұрын

Here to talk about trivia although no one asked for it! The old lunar calendar runs about a month later seasonally than the Gregorian western calendar. When the western modern calendar was adopted, there were two camps of thought. One camp including the people of Sendai said let's keep celebrating things around the same time of year. This also goes for many regions in Asia observing Lunar New Year in what is approximately February on the Gregorian calendar. The other camp including the Japanese government said that since celebrations with repeated odd numbers like New Years (January 1st), Hina-doll festival (March 3rd), Children's day (May 5th), Tanabata (July 7th), and Cho-yo chrysanthemum festival (September 9th) are celebrated in part to ward-off the bad luck of too much Yin energy, it should be celebrated on the day with those numbers on whatever calendar everyone is using at the time. Hence, the Japanese national holiday of Children's day is held on May 5th. Thanks for reading my unwarranted bit of trivia.

@jennevieve_

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnaMorimoto Not unwarranted at all! Rather, thank you for saving me the time googling it because I was super curious!

@DanielandYuka

Жыл бұрын

@@AnnaMorimoto thanks so much for clarifying that for me, it was really helpful to understand the double Tanabata date in Japan! :)

@Stef.with.an.F

Жыл бұрын

Tanabata was traditionally celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th Lunar calendar month of which the exact date differs each year on the western calendar! Each Lunar calendar month has 30 days, the 1st is always a new moon and the 15th is always a full moon! (Sometimes plus or minus one day in the west due to time zone different, say sometimes it's was full moon a day early on 14th in the UK but full moon on 15th in Hong Kong)

I really appreciate you keeping the background noise in the video, it made it so much more atmospheric 😊

I really can’t wait until I can go to Japan to experience a festival like this.

Goodyo see Chris turns up in time for food. Haha

Thanks,🙂 Sharla and friends, this was fun!

It’s my 30th wedding anniversary and my husband and I are at home sick with COVID. Such a disappointment but this video really cheered me up. The festival was beautiful and so we’re you!

Tanabata has always been the dream festival for me. I hope I can visit Sendai in time for it one day 🎋✨ Seeing all of those cranes and their message really moved me, so overall I was feeling very misty eyed up until the restaurant scene where they started making all of that birthday chaos! As a puertorican it was a very familiar level of noise and antics 😹 Thank you for always taking us to these wonderful sights and experiences with you! For those of us that can only dream of traveling, it makes us feel like we were part of the fun and the magic. 😸💕

A way to remember how to put on yukata the right way - is to go over (toward) your heart first 🥰

シャーラさん、日本生活を楽しんでいるようですね。😉 蛍光灯下で『食パン美味しい』っていう動画の頃からよく観てました😉 これからも日本生活楽しんで下さいね🤗

What a pretty Yukata Sharla! 😍 This vlog was so dreamy ☁️✨ I’ve never been to Sendai so thanks for sharing! Another thing added to my list to do in Japan

When you took a drink of your cocktail 😄 the reaction was so funny. Its so beautiful & colorful there in japan. I would go broke with all the shopping. I love your videos showing everything you experience there since i know i will never be able to travel overseas.

Clicked to watch so fast ❤️ I love your videos!

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your support always!! 💕

the temptation to buy everything in the studio ghibli store 🥴

Happy Summer Star Festival/Tanabana, Miss Sharla. 🎋🎍 It is glorious to celebrate this fantastic festival in Japan.

Chris looked so hunted there at the end when the birthday stuff started up i thought it was going to be his or something XD this is gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing the celebration with us.

All those cranes blue and white are so impressive and beautiful. Thanks for showing!

Chris in the background at the end absolutely killing the vibe! \m/. lol

I loved this video. A bonus watching you advertising Sakuraco boxes is the little preview I get of what's coming each month...tsuki festival treats, I can't wait 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Your Sendai tanabata festival looks so pretty & gorgeous, the colours & the relaxed vibe with everyone out looking summery... & that crane display! Sugoi!!! Team No Cilantro represent👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Chris being Chris, love it, fantastic video!

The decorations were lovely, just like the decorations in your airbnb, I watched a vlog posted by your first customer, your place looks great! I liked the little touches of the cute magnets and stationary you provided.

This made me think of 2 Japanese movies. The red goldfish is "Bitter Honey". The story of the loved ones "My tomorrow Your Yesterday". Don't watch that if you have a soft heart. You'll just bawl your eyes out. Thank you Sharmeleon this was beautiful.

Whoa, the markings around Tuna's eyes are so striking. He grew up to be a handsome boy. And you look so cute in your yukata! And the festival was beautiful! I was smiling and laughing the whole way through, thanks Sharla.

I feel like I really needed something like this, those children’s cranes warmed my heart. Thank you 💛

So funny seeing everything in your video after being there myself. And the games are not only for kids, I enjoyed them very much as well 😝😂

@sharlainjapan

Жыл бұрын

Haha this is true😆🙌🏻 Was nice to see you!!! Hope you had a great time at cat island after 👀

@kimcathe6742

Жыл бұрын

@@sharlainjapan it was!! We should do a proper trip someday where you can vlog and I take pictures 😁 maybe Shikoku you need a driver for that anyway. 😂 Cat Island was like you said a bit depressing and it should be dragonfly island. Saw so many of them 😮

Such a picturesque festival! Must have been so cool to be there in person!

I see Chris is doing his best to be more excited and friendly

シャーラーさんお元気そうでなによりです！ 応援してます‼️

Lmao Sharla, the end where Chris is just waiving and you put the wtf caption was so funny😂

your outfit is so cute!! The festival looks so fun

I'm so happy that Sendai got to celebrate Tanabata this year! ❤️ Thank you so much for taking us along, seeing all the bright colors and people enjoying the festivities really made my day 🥰

looked like a nice festival and your yukata was quite beautiful

Always a treat to watch your Japan vlogs with different places and stuff to do love it 😊

I love your content because it's always so wholesome! I always know that if I'm having a bad day, I can always come back to your videos to prop me up a little bit!

Great vlogs as usual 😘 I always enjoy your vlogs the most. Thank you for keep making this kind of vlogs. Yours are always my comfort videos to watch, whenever I'm down or I need some accompany, or whenever i need to listen to something before i go to sleep, I will rewatch your videos. I wish you showed more of how you styled/wear your yukata. It was so beautiful n complimented you so well 😍😍

The decorations are soooo pretty!! Tuna is adorable he looks so fluffy and soft to pet.😻

Thanks for sharing with us Sharla! Happy to see you hanging out with Victor and the gang.

I started watching your videos when you first came out on KZread. You got me through some rough times, seriously. I always enjoy your adventures, and feel like you're such a genuine and beautiful person. Thank you for always sharing your life with us.

How refreshing to find a new video from Sharla on a day at home from work bco sickness! So pretty and genuinely sweet as usual ☺☺ You are a breath of radiant air in a normally gloomy world! Thank you so much for always putting a smile on all of our faces ❤

Wow definitely something I need to see in this lifetime!! All the decorations, especially the paper cranes, were so beautiful!! The meaning behind the festival is so sweet too. Love from Canada!!! ❤️❤️

Years and years now still watching your videos! I love Tanabata you're in the correct place for it! 🤠

Oh Sharla I could watch your videos all day haha. They're just so perfect. Man I had a rough day and relaxing with this video and a cup of tea was so perfect I almost cried. Thank you for continuing on with your videos all this time. I don't know what I'd do if you stopped. 💓

Thank you, the festival looked magical.

I love the tanabata decorations.

Looks like a beautiful festival.Love your yukata,so pretty. Also,love your cats.🥰Thanks for showing this.

LOL Chris is so funny 🤣 i need to him and sharla do cheesy KZreadr couple challenges now

I love the robust flavor of Hojicha! The roasted flavor makes it almost like a light coffee without the jitters.

Ooh I love festivals and yukata! Definitely wore mine the wrong way around a few times, and probably too short. Also, I was already laughing about the birthday celebration and then Chris turning his wave into a photobomb made me laugh so hard, I coughed!

The week starts better watching this video. Thanks.

Thank you for introducing the Tanabata festival to me! Really cool to learn the story behind it and get to see what it's like. Your Yukata was so cute!! Thanks for vlogging!

Very quick but sweet video. I miss our local festivals and travelling fairs even though I get sick on the rides the games and food were always fun. I hope 2023 sees them make a come back.

I see Chris is having a lot of progress with his fitness journey 😄 (6:36, 14:08) Also, Tuna's fur is getting lush just like his big brother. Adorable bulging eyes too

The story of the festival had me teary... "They get to meet one day of the year..." thank you for sharing this unique and tremendous festival. The decorations are really something!

Thanks for the video Sharla! Seeing the shotengai decorated for the festival made me so happy and I hope to one day experience it in person myself!

Wow the festival is so pretty!!!! The decors especially the flower ones are my favorite!!! And the cranes 🥺 so so so pretty but also has a deep meaning behind it.

Wow I love that yukata! And I'm so glad Tuna made a guest appearance that lil' fluff is adorable!

That looks like fun! Glad they have festivals back now even though it's not completely the same as it usually would be. Also the cats are so cute!!!

Beautiful video! Always love the good mix of ambience, talk and info in your videos! Thank you!

Positive vibes with the festival, so great! Those white and blue cranes are definitely impressive too. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

OMG Sharlaa, you look so gorgeous 💕, thank you so much for posting more things about japanese culture in this heat

Such beautiful decorations for a romantic night. I love the blue and white cranes and their symbolism. Thanks so much for sharing! Much love and positive vibes from Montana. ✨💖✨

Thanks for bringing us along! I miss Japanese festivals.

The decorations are so cute. I love how colourscemes have a meaning behind it. Lovely festival.

How pretty. It seemed like a walk thru a fairytale. All those swans strung together was amazing.

I really like the black/red yukata, very pretty! Glad it looks like it worked out, size wise

I LOVED the decorations around Sendai! It's wonderful that Japan has a culture of festivals. I hope to see some of them up close and personal some day.

Your Yukata is beautiful. I love the goldfish! Thank you for all of your time in editing these videos. I really enjoy them!

What a beautiful festival. I love Japan's festivals and celebrations.

Thanks for sharing Japanese culture in this personal way with us. Love the Yukata you picked. Also, Tuna my little chaos kitten.😍