The castles of Japan are distinguished by their special architecture. In the city of Azuchi, north of Omi Hachiman (Shiga Prefecture), on the shores of Lake Biwa, there is one of the main castles of Oda Nobunaga, a military leader and the most prominent samurai of Japan, who devoted his life to the unification of …
Hase-dera temple This ancient temple was founded in 736. It is sometimes referred to as “Hase Kannon Temple” due to the Kannon statue kept here. Flowers such as hydrangeas, cherries, lilies, clovers, plums, daffodils, etc. grow here. Therefore, the temple is also called “flower temple”. The temple is divided into upper and lower zones. In …
Tokyo is the capital of the incredibly picturesque and picturesque country of Japan. This metropolis is considered one of the most modern cities in the world in terms of infrastructure and architecture. Tokyo’s culture is unique and unique: the numerous theaters, museums, festivals and palaces are just some of what the city is famous for. …
One of the oldest temples, Kiyomizudera, is a complex of thirty buildings, the construction of which began at the end of the Nara period in 778. Most of them are wooden, so they were repeatedly destroyed and burned over the centuries to be rebuilt in 1633 by the famous shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who ruled the …
Kenchoji Temple was founded approximately 750 years ago. It was he who was the center of the development of Japanese Zen Buddhism, one of the oldest temples of the Zen sect. Kenchoji Temple is the main temple of this sect in Japan and the first one built in Kamakura. It was founded in 1253 by …
Toji, a unique temple complex from the 8th century, is a place steeped in history, legend and antiquity. Toji literally translates as an oriental temple. Initially, the temple was used to protect the capital and the surrounding lands both by the massive structures themselves and by the gods to whom they prayed here. Now the …
The Jomon period is the time from prehistoric Japan from about 16,500 to about 2,300 BC. when Japan was inhabited by a culture of hunter-gatherers, it reached a considerable degree of lodging and cultural entanglement. The term “with scar marks” is translated into Japanese as “Jomon”. The pottery from the time of the first phase …
A traditional Japanese house (minka) in modern Japan is represented by only a few museums. However, these buildings, although in fact a thing of the past, are an integral part of the architecture and culture of this country. History: Traditional houses are simple one- or two-storey frame buildings made of wood, paper, straw, clay, …