Japan food lifestyle

August 18, 2019

This picture taken on June 21, 2019 shows shop owner Koji Morinishi making a kakigori dessert with natural ice in the Yanaka district of Tokyo. - In a mountainous area north of Tokyo, Yuichiro Yamamoto bows and thanks the gods of nature as a priest blew a conch shell, expressing gratitude for this year's "good harvest" of natural ice used for kakigori, a lucrative, luxury summer dessert. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP) Jiji Press