Zenringai (Zen Temple Street) in Hirosaki, Japan
These 33 Zen Buddhist temples were built to protect the nearby castle.#castles #edoperiod #history #buddhism #roads #streetnames #temples #section-Atlas
Zenringai (Zen Temple Street)
The Himeji municipal government that it will more than double the admission fee for its castle — a UNESCO World Heritage site — for nonresidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/16/japan/himeji-castle-fee-rise/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #himejicastle #hyogo #tourism #localgovernment #unesco #worldheritage #edoperiod
As the main focus of NHK’s prestigious taiga drama, Tsutaya Juzaburo is set to give his hometown of Yoshiwara in Tokyo a tourism-fueled boost. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/26/japan/history/tsutaya-juzaburo-edo-yoshiwara/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #nhk #ukiyoe #hokusai #edoperiod #tsutayajuzaburo #japanesetv #taitoward #yoshiwara
NHK marks its 100th anniversary with “Unbound,” a colorful departure from its period drama template. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/01/10/tv-streaming/nhk-taiga-drama-unbound/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #tvstreaming #nhk #ukiyoe #hokusai #edoperiod #ryuseiyokohama #kenwatanabe #harukaayase
A centuries-old art form took flight this past week at Hamarikyu Gardens in Tokyo, where falconers showcased their craft against the backdrop of what was once a hunting ground during the Edo Period. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/01/05/more-sports/falconry-japan-ancient-practice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #falconry #tokyo #birds #animals #edoperiod
Title: Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in 'A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road' (1812)
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
https://www.japan.travel/en/blog/haunted-yotsuya-hidden-ghost-stories-in-tokyo/ #Ukiyoe #Art #EdoPeriod #Ghost #GhostStories #YotsuyaKaidan #SpookySeason #Halloween #Tokyo #Japan
An advisory panel to UNESCO has told the Japanese government that Hikone Castle in Shiga Prefecture may possibly meet a criterion for inscription on the World Cultural Heritage list, according to the Cultural Affairs Agency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/10/japan/japan-hikone-castle-world-heritage/ #japan #unesco #worldheritage #culturalaffairsagency #edoperiod #shiga
Edo's warrior class and its martial virtues were redundant but lived on — overshadowed, however, if not overwhelmed, by the pursuit of pleasure, the embrace of frivolity, the slaking of lust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/29/japan/history/edo-japan-moral-ambiguity/ #japan #history #edoperiod #relationships #chushingura #samurai
The Living Past: To die for erotic love was to the men and women of Japan's newly risen merchant class what dying for martial love had been in earlier times to their social betters, the samurai — everything. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/17/japan/history/sex-love-edo-japan/ #japan #history #love #romance #edoperiod
The Edo Period monk could see the world through a child's eyes, maybe even those of a child from our modern era. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/21/japan/history/ryokan-monk-japanese-history/ #japan #history #ryokan #monk #edoperiod
Life under the Tokugawa shogunate wasn't exactly freedom but neither was it constant war. The Japanese instead sated their bloodlust with theater. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/15/japan/history/chushingura-revenge-japan-history/ #japan #history #chushingura #fortysevenronin #edoperiod #theater
The ordinary world painted by Kawahara Keiga, in a Dutch-influenced style, serves to capture life in Japan around 200 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/03/04/art/edo-era-artist-painter-japan/ #culture #art #art #painting #edoperiod #nagasaki
