Bento, a home-packed meal, is an essential part of Japanese
cultures conveying a keen sense of the seasons.
In its names,colors, and creative decorative cuts,
the beauties of the seasons are naturally expressed
and inherited in our daily life.
Bento is truly Japanese cuisine
showing the buniqueness and
identity of our culture. We all share
the childhood memory that
mother made a bento for us and
we went to picnics with friends.
Then, it was the time
of lunch we had been waiting for.
We can never forget the excitements
and happiness of opening the lid of bento-box
in the beautiful scenery of fully-bloomed cherry blossoms.
Bento also is a representation of family ties.
