In the museum, we found a helmet and armor from the Edo period, 1849. It was worn by the 14th lord of Owari, Tokugawa Yoshikatsu. We saw a modern reproduction of a lord’s tea house in the simple sukiya-style. The design is based on records of the SARUMEN tea-house at the Owari...
What’s particularly interesting is that a number of these are symbols we’ve already been using in the tradition, a couple of which I even have tattooed on my body — and the fact that these originated in one of the most sacred locales in our tradition is just honey-glaze on the libu...
Prompt: Everyone is shocked when a girl is chosen to become one of the famed dragon riders, she is the first woman rider in a hundred years and her fellow male apprentices are not as welcoming as she had hoped, she must fight against prejudice, bullying, and the intense training regiment ...
largely goes unnoticed. It is the vestige of the sign over the St. Louis Hotel Slave Exchange. The luxurious hotel included a bank, ballroom, shopping arcade and trading exchange. Six days each week from 1838-1862, under the hotel’s domed rotunda, auctioneers sold off land and...
This has been one of Shinjuku’s most in-demand mid-range hotels for years and is often sold out weeks in advance. So what makes it so popular? It has a fantastic location on a quiet side street just minutes from Shinjuku’s many restaurants, malls, and nightlife. ...