TriviaThe spirits of shrimps and tea whisks are consoled. /海老や茶筅の供養塔
Religious monument with a egg (Left) and a tea whisk (Right) 日本語は英語の下にあります。In what kinds of occasions do you make ...
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Myth & FolkloreWasn’t Mt. Fuji once the highest in Japan?/富士山はかつて日本一じゃなかった!?
Mt. Fuji taken from the Tomei highway (Fujikawa S.A.)/東名富士川S.Aからの富士山 日本語は英語の下にあります。Long, long ago, a male Kami, or d...
HeroesPrince Shotoku and Article seventeen of the Constitution No.2 /聖徳太子と十七条の憲法No.2
Note/bill of 5000 yen with Prince Shotoku's figure issued until 1986. 日本語は英語の下にあります。In this article, we will see Pri...
CultureObon/お盆
shouryou-uma 日本語は英語の下にあります。What’s Obon? InJapan, people believe that thespritsofthedead returntotheirhomesandfami...
CultureDo we need to ask Kami’s permission to enter mountains and beaches-called “Yama-biraki and Umi-biraki”?/山開きと海開き
日本語は英語の下にあります。 When do you ask permission from the god, deities or Kami? Japanese people ask for permission...
HeroesPrince Shotoku and Article seventeen of the Constitution /聖徳太子と十七条の憲法
Image of Prince Shotoku 日本語は英語の下にあります。Many Japanese think highly ofPrinceShotoku.It’s because he estab...
CultureASIMO-Humanoid Robot/アシモ
日本語は英語の下にあります。Have you heard of the name of a humanoid robot, ASIMO?ASIMO is the abbreviation of Advanced Step in I...
CultureRokuyo- the 6-day calendar/六曜
Rokuyo Calendar 日本語は英語の下にあります。"Rokuyo" is a sequence of six days consisting of Sensho, Tomobiki, Senpu, Butsumetsu, ...
CultureJune bride/水無月の花嫁
Shiromuku with Wata-boushi Here is the video that the article is read aloud. We’d like to know your preference, ...
CultureHara-kiri/切腹
* Trigger warning: suicide 日本語は英語の下にあります。Harakiri literally means cut the belly.It is also translated as ritual ...