Japan 101

Buddhism and India ink painting

The paintings with Haiku poems/俳画

日本語は英語の後にあります。 追れ行人(おわれいくひと) Owareikuhito Ushiroya Yukiakari <meaning>The back of a person who left the ci...
Cities & Town

Reconstruction and remains from the atomic bomb/原爆からの復興と遺構

Someone says that the U.S. attacked Japan with the atomic bomb because Japan attacked at the Pearl Harbor. Japan...
Cities & Town

Miracle Japanese religious spirit/驚くべき日本人の宗教心

Oura Church@World Cultural Heritage Site/大浦天主堂@世界遺産 Believe it or not, there was an amazing story that some Japanese...
2023.08.02
Trivia

Superstition no.5- Pillow’s Direction /枕の向き

Which direction do you put your pillow?There is the superstition related to it:putting a pillow toward the north wo...
Buddhism and India ink painting

Explosion of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki/長崎の原爆

Explosion of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki長崎の原爆 How many children's lives had been lost?Pray for hope and glorious...
Cities & Town

Yobuko-famous for fresh squids-/新鮮な烏賊で有名な呼子

日本語は英語の後にあります。 Yobuko, Karatsu city in Saga prefecture is located roughly 1,150 km far from Tokyo.It's famous fo...
Buddhism and India ink painting

Paintings of natural landscapes including mountains and rivers/山水画

日本語は英語の後にあります。 After mastering the way of painting Shikunshi, four plants such as orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum ...
Trivia

Superstition no.4- A crow is a messenger of the deity./烏は神の使者

There is the fourth superstition thatsomeone will die when a crow sings.I heard this when I was a child many times,...
2023.12.05
Travel Tips

Strange hotel with Robot receptionists/フロントにロボット『変なホテル』

日本語は英語の後にあります。 Have you ever heard of the Henn na Hotel listed in the Guinness World Records as the world's first ho...
Trivia

Superstition no.3-Hide your thumbs/迷信3-親指隠せ

日本語は英語の後にあります。 There is the superstition: hide your thumbs when you see the funeral car.Otherwise,you could not ...
2023.12.05