Translation of a text about "Japanese Gotochi Cards" (2) 5 – Small team but great enthusiasm! We’re a tiny French-Japanese team who fall in love with Gotochi Cards, and it’s with the same enthusiasm that we travel across Japan’s roads, looking for more cards! We’re listening to your envy and wish lists, so feel free to contact us by mail if you want some cards, we’ll do our best to satisfy you. 6 – How we’d like to site to evolve We’d love to help you “live” the Gotochi Cards experience in Japan and in your own country. For that, we’ll update the website as following: * you want to discover a place that’s represented by a card? We’ll find for you the address, the itinerary, the opening hours, the admission fees (if there are some), what the best seasons to visit the place… * you want to eat a regional dish but don’t know where to go? We’ll suggest to you the best and most popular restaurants, with information and access, our suggestion and pictures! 7 – Let’s meet up! You’d like to come in Japan and meet up with Gotochi Card fan? Contact us and we’ll be able to have a drink one day. We’d love to meet you all!

Translation of a text presenting "Japanese Gotochi Cards" (1) 1 – You like Japan? So do I! With the Gotochi Cards, I propose you an original travel across Japan, and a travel among Japanese specialties. All the cards represent important elements of Japan’s culture, dearly love by Japanese people, or sound nostalgic to them. Poorly known places, historically important personalities, local dishes and food, regional emblems and national pride, I wish to make you discover a “stereotype-free” Japan. 2 – Buy 6 Gotochi Cards and get one Mini Gotochi for free! Those mini cards are the exact copy of the Gotochi Cards and are very popular among collectors. They can be used to decorate your agenda, a file, to do scrapbooking or to put in a travel album. Each time you’ll buy 6 Gotochi Card, you’ll get one Mini Gotochi Card for free (*). Because we lack of stock, it’s not possible to choose your mini card, but if there’s a type card you’d like to get (a card that represents food, landscape, temple…), feel free to contact us. (*) Please, note that the “Post Form Cards” or “Travel in Japan” cards are not included in the offer. It only concerns the “Gotochi Card” 3 – You like Japanese language? So do I! You like Japanese language, maybe you study it? So do I! You may wonder what’s written at the reverse side of the postcard, but you can’t read Japanese? I’m offering a translation in French & English. If you’re studying Japanese, it could be funny exercising yourself to understand what’s written, and to compare your translation with mine. And please, feel free to contact me if you have a different translation! 4 – Omotenashi means everything to us Omotenashi defines Japanese hospitality, but a warm, selfless, respectful and thoughtful hospitality. Japanese hospitality and way of taking care of guest or clients is very important to me, and I do all I can to provide you the best service. Your order is prepared with great care, verified multiple times and consciously packed. We also slip Mini Gotochi Cards and small gifts from Japan. All the cards are protected by an individual plastic packet and packed together in an other plastic bag to protect them from bad weather. If you have an ecological mind and do not wish supplementary packing, let us know! We also take care to decorate your envelope, so the fun starts in your letterbox!

French Cake : Biscuit de Savoie The Gâteau de Savoie is made with very simple ingredients, and with his gentle taste, you can enjoy Gâteau (or Biscuit) de Savoie in a plenty of manner. A cake loved throughout the world. Savoie is a French department, localized in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, which shares common borders with Swiss and Italy. It’s because of this cake that the technique of separating the egg yolk from the egg white was born. The Biscuit de Savoie appearance date from 1358. At this time, France was in war with the Great Britain, and was having a crisis…. Savoie region wasn’t a part of France at this time but was an independent dynasty. Therefore, receiving his sovereign Charles IV and wanting to get favours from him, Savoie suzerain Count Amédée de Savoie (Amadeus of Savoy), well aware of Charles greed, asked his pâtissier to make a cake “as light as a feather”. When the dinner draw to a close, the cake was presented to the Emperor: a huge cake representing Savoie duchy and his castle, and on the whole was sitting an imperial crown. The pâtissier who invented this cake was Pierre de Yenne. If in the old days in France it was usual to mix together the egg yolk and the egg white, Pierre tried to use the eggs to make the cake lighter. He had the idea of separating them, whip egg-whites to a light, and mix the eggs yolk with sugar till a creamy color (“blanchir” in French). Thanks to this regional cake, it’s now common to separate the yolk from the white egg. Light, fluffy, with a poor amount of fat and delicious with tea, Gâteau de Savoie is a cake that evolved with time, and acquire new tastes while respecting the traditional recipe and cake shape.

About me and postcards Between me and the Japanese Postcards, there’s already a long story! I'm enthousiast about Japan and Japanese culture since I'm a little girl, and grew over the years the same interest for postcards. It’s by chance that my feat lead me to these lovely Japanese Postcards: finally my two favorite passions would be joined ! Since then, I never ceased to make my Japanese postcard collection grow, and took upon each occasion I had to make people know them. And now, I put myself to your service, to share with you my enthusiasm for postcard and for Japan. (my website description)

Hello and welcome to you! Hey there! Thanks so much for visiting my website. My name is Marine, I'm a French living actually in Kobe, Japan. I'm very proud to present you my website "OOOO", which is a project that's near and dear to my heart, born from the passion I have for Japan and for postcard. In 2013, I suscribe to a website called Postcrossing, thanks to whom anybody can receive postcards from all over the world, (almost) for free. That's when I started to send and receive postcard from random people from the USA, Germany or India that I had my first uncounter with the Japanese Gotochi Cards. When you think about "postcard", I bet you imagine rectangular, banal with pretty simple design postcard, right? But Japanese Gotochi Cards are colorful, terribly cute, easy to understand what they depict, quite big and have an original design. Because there's an explication of what the postcard depict, they're inscructive too! I couldn't resist to their charm and started to collect them! At this time, Gotochi Cards weren't sold on the internet, but could only be bought in Japan or received threw exchanges. And because they're region-limited, they're very much appreciated and popular amoung postcard collectors and Japan culture amateurs. As my collection grew, I was animated by two desires : * make people know about the Gotochi Card, not even foreign people but also make Japanese people know about it * make people know about all the great and traditional aspects of Japan, about the delicious and regional food, about Japanese History and litterature, about the beautiful, the modern or the hidden places of Japan. It's with this enthousiasm that I'm starting my website and want to share my passion with you, and hope to send a piece of travel, a piece of Japan to you.

接客の言葉 私は、アルバイトで一ヶ月前から岡本にあるステキなお店で働きます。日本語が苦手なのに、みんなはすごく優しくて、応援してくれます。 ですので、お客様をお迎えするために一所懸命日本語を勉強して、敬語と数字の練習をします。 まずは、お店を皆さんに紹介して、覚えた接客の言葉を書くと思います。 ラクソンは、フランスで日常食べている食品や、様々な日用品を売っています。 ハチミツ、焼き菓子、オーガニック紅茶をはじめ、日本人がまだ知らないミラベルの果物で作るコンフィチュールを提案します。また、フランスの伝統工芸で作り上げる陶芸のボウルとか、リネンのタオルを販売します。 接客の言葉 ご予算はいかほどでしょうか。 ご試食なさいますか？ ○○を、どうぞ。 贈り物ですか？ リボンは、何色にされますか。 お会計、合計で○○円でございます。 ○○円を預かり致します。 丁度いただきます。 ○○円お返しします。