I am especially fond for example of the painting of Apollo and Daphne by Piero dell Pollaiuolo below. In the myth, Daphne, is relentlessly pursued by Apollo; to escape his desire, she is turned into a laurel tree by her father, Peneus. Nevertheless, Apollo continues to adore her through ...
bathing 2 baths 2 bats 1 batteries 2 bay 5 beach 83 beacon 1 bean 3 bean curd 1 beans 2 bear 5 bears 1 beautiful 78 beautiful nature 31 beauty 55 bed 3 Bedfordshire 2 beds 3 bee 6 beef 4 beef cattle 2 beehive 1 beer 9 bees 6 bells 1 below...
In Japanese, miko is usually written with the characters for "medium" and "woman" as 巫女. However, miko may also be referred as 神子, written with the characters for "god" and "child." 舞姫, or "maihime" is also another word to describe miko (it refers to the miko's role of p...
Something like Japan-Historic-Homes.org may work. This may facilitate easy web searches. "Heritage" is arguably a more correct word to use but I think some folks may get this confused with modern homes which have a "Heritage style". "Historic" (or "Historical") does sound a bit dry and...
In the present, the Half-Demon Princesses resume their search for Bokusenō the two-thousand-year-old tree-demon to retrieve a very powerful, demonic mystical Kyūyōkon root for Towa's new and proper demonic-empowered sword. He informs them that a root of such ancient, mystical demonic power...
(象形文字 - shōkei moji). They were originally pictures of the things, and over time they become more abstract and simplified. Few are recognisable as what they represent any longer. Other examples include 木 (ki - tree), 魚 (sakana - fish), 人 (nin - person), 火 (hi - fire), ...
At 1720, finished our preparation for a charge and discharged 2 smoke candles, one of which failed to explode because of dampness. Nevertheless, the entire platoon carried out a determined charge. During the assault, as I jumped over a fallen tree, my foot caught in something and I fell ...
While the custom of taking a bath properly started early in Japanese history for reasons of health and sanitation, it was given additional impetus after the introduction of Buddhism in the sixth century. In Buddhism, cleanliness is next to godliness, which connected bathing with ablution and ...
Under Japan’s law governing inns and hotels, a rooming house is defined as an establishment that offers lodgings for multiple guests, generally with shared toilets and bathing facilities. Youth hostels and mountain cabins fall under this category. Some municipal authorities are trying to encourage ...
At Kosenji Temple in Kusatsu Onsen town (Gunma Prefecture), there is mysteriously placed among the other bodhisattva steles, dosojin statues, etc. a very small statue that is almost identical to the dol hareubang or stone grandfather guardians of Cheju I