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The Throw Away Temple – Dumping Ground of the Yoshiwara Prostitutes.

Not far from Minowa station on the Hibiya line is a nondescript temple called 浄閑寺—Jokanji. From the street, it looks

I have had this print on file for a while but was never able to find the details of it

Nishi Honganji is the mother temple for the Jodo Shinshu sect of Japanese Buddhism established by Shinran Shonan who lived

Shikoku is host to the famous 88 temple pilgrimage. It is said to take up to 3 months to complete

While readers of Japanese literature from the Heian and Kamakura periods often find it difficult to determine when a sexual

On this Day, December 16, 1614, a number of Samurai women were killed by cannon fire in Osaka Castle. 400

Not something I have done before but I found this beautiful Ukiyo-e print with some history attached to it. It’s

Not a bad summary I found of Francis Xavier and Christianity in Japan. Francis Xavier, a founder of the Society

HIKONE, Shiga Prefecture–Fascinating tidbits from the daily lives of samurai warriors have been gleaned from a diary found four years

Details of the museum in English as follows: http://www.ryoma-kinenkan.jp/en/ Copied from the museum’s introduction of Ryoma. Sakamoto Ryoma, born in

Born in Kagoshima in the Satsuma domain (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture) Saigō Takamori was one of the Satsuma samurai supporting the

Bix, Herbert P. 2001. Hirohito and the making of modern Japan. New York, NY: Perennial. Booth, Alan. 1995. Looking for