Visit the town of Wakasa-cho as its locals prepare for Obon festivities while navigating a pandemic. Midsummer with the Ancestors: Wakasa Town – Journeys in Japan
CHIKUMA, Nagano Prefecture–A newly discovered letter written by feudal warlord Takeda Shingen during famous 16th-century battles against rival Uesugi Kenshin prompted a museum here to mount a fund-raising campaign to acquire it.
CHIKUMA, Nagano Prefecture–A newly discovered letter written by feudal warlord Takeda Shingen during famous 16th-century battles against rival Uesugi Kenshin prompted a museum here to mount a fund-raising campaign to acquire it.In the letter, Shingen (1521-1573), from Kai province (present-day Yamanashi Prefecture), commended the achievements of local warriors in the Battles of Kawanakajima, a series…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yceuRB4e524&ab_channel=Let%27saskShogo%7CYourJapanesefriendinKyoto[/embed] The No.1 dish you want to eat in Japan is sushi, right? Sushi is now a familiar dish everywhere around the world, but due to its long history there is actually a lot of unique culture that even Japanese people are not familiar with. But by finding out about them, I’m confident that your…
Source: Kame’s Nohmasks on Instagram: “@kames_nohmask 能面工房 -Nohmask Studio-”
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgc2faQ143I&ab_channel=FOOD%E2%98%86STAR%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC[/embed] Selling bracken-starch dumplings by bicycle, run by a 102-year-old husband. However, last year, her husband entered a nursing home. His wife, Megumi, has now taken over the job from her husband and is working hard selling warabi mochi. She starts making her Japanese sweets at four in the morning.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOyh6WfLuU[/embed] As a Japanese katana trainee who has been training for more than 7 years now, I’ve made a lot of videos related to katana. So I often get many DMs through Instagram asking me, “Is this katana worth buying?” along with pictures of katana sold on the internet. Most katana that people send me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quXNOvaIBAY
I’ve already made a video right after it became viral, but on June 26th 2022 this was tweeted by a former maiko.
What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their citizenship? A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.
“With Studio Ghibli,” says Napier, “you have a sense that, contrary to the Judeo-Christian Western point of view, humans are not necessarily the dominant creatures in the world.” It’s an ethos with arguable roots in Japan’s history of ecological disasters, and in Shintoism, the animistic folk religion of Japan, based around the faith that there…
People of Afro-Japanese heritage like me (I am Ghanaian-Japanese) are not considered “true” Japanese due to our darker complexion. People like me are often bullied at school or made to feel like foreigners in our own country. However, we represent Japan too; we are becoming more visible and growing in number. From Naomi Osaka, the…
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