A thousand generations, forever. Chiyo was one of the all-time favorite Japanese girls' names, ubiquitous from at least the 16th century until 1912, when it fell off the list of the top five girls' names. It was often written in kanji, even when other female names were written in hiraga...
Japanese art - Tokugawa, Edo, Ukiyo-e: At the death of the Momoyama leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, his five-year-old son, Hideyori, inherited nominal rule, but true power was held by Hideyoshi’s counselors, among whom Tokugawa Ieyasu was the most pr
Japanese art - Ukiyo-e, Woodblock, Edo: The arrival of Buddhism and its attendant iconography in Japan in the mid-6th century ce serves as a dramatic dividing line in the consideration of the history of Japanese visual expression. With the advent of Budd
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