Snowing since morning in Tokyo.
In recent years, annual snowfall is increasing in Japan. A winter storm watch has been issued to many areas in Japan now. It is said that the reason of such a heavy snow is "bomb" cyclone. This is a kind of a extratropical cyclone, that cause the extremes of climate similar to tropical cyclone. The Japan Meteorological Agency says that global warming makes it happen readily.
This is "Yukimi-shoji"
Yukimi-shoji is a kind of Japanese paper door with a simple device for watching snow falling in the garden without opening the doors. We use them for just like today. The Japanese caracters for "yukimi" is "雪見". "雪" means snow. "見" means watching. When we want to watch snow scene, sliding the bottom part of the shoji up.
Open "shoji" in a common way
Yukimi-shoji
