In the very early 1600's, it might also be spelled 阿泥, which literally means "muddy cleft in the mountains." The initial A- (阿), "mountain cleft," is from the name of the Amitabha Buddha, whose worship was popular in the medieval period. In the Buddha's honor, many names of ...
The microstructure of silk fiber dyed by a chrom-yellow dyeing technique imported into Japan in the last Edo period has been investigated. The silk fiber is dyed using lead acetate and potassium chromate solution. The color is measured with a spectrophotometer. The microstructures are observed with...
Some restaurant names are taken from those featured in "Onihei Hankacho."East Nippon Expressway Co. (NEXCO East), which manages the expressway, opened Onihei Edo-dokoro late last year with the aim of "offering visitors an opportunity to experience Edo culture at the Hanyu Parking Area, which ...
As for ‘ee’ and ‘eh’, I have long felt that Americans tend to pronounce vowels as their names are pronounced, far more than other English speakers. Of course I am aware that the tendency originated in England. Nijma’s comment is bang-on but I think the tendency goes beyond that....
but I still got stymied in places because I didn't know everyone's names as well as I did years ago when I wrote the thesis and also because they change bloody names (I'm looking at you Katsura Koguryo!) What I didn't know about the museum until I got there was that the main sh...
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Kusumi Morikage was a Japanese painter of the early Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who excelled in painting farmers and common people. Little is known of Kusumi’s life, but a number of his paintings are extant, of which “Enjoying the Evening Cool Under a
period, but after some decades—although cord marks are not the defining decorative scheme of the type—the termjōmonwas generally accepted. The period’s earliest stage (c.10,500–8000bce), to which the Fukui shards belong, has been given various names, includingIncipientJōmon and Sub...
The park retains many historical sites such as the memorial stone dedicated to Kira Kozuke-no-Suke and a seated statue of him, a stone monument inscribed with the names of the vassals of the Kira family, the neck-washing well, the Matsuzaka Inari Shrine which enshrines Kira Kozuke-no-Suk...