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Kumamoto what to visit

Michela — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:30:51 +0000

Kumamoto was not a very famous city before April 2016, when it became sadly famous for the strong earthquake that caused many victims, damage and the disastrous ruin of Kumamoto Castle, one of the most beautiful and largest in Japan. This terrible misfortune, however, was in a sense a positive note for Kumamoto, who became [...]

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Visit Kanazawa, where ancient Japan meets the modern art

Michela — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:30:08 +0000

If you ask me what my favourite place in Japan is, I would hardly be able to give you a straight answer, but if you ask me what my favourite city is, I would answer Kanazawa without the slightest hesitation. Kanazawa is a little jewel on the west coast of Japan, at the gateway [...]

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Discovering the Iya Valley

Michela — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:30:29 +0000

The perception of time changes in the Valley of Iya. Everything flows according to the rhythms of nature in this isolated and remote valley, which became one of the places of refuge of the Taira clan, defeated by the Minamoto in the Genpei War. So far from the neon and lights of Tokyo, but also [...]

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Visit Aizu Wakamatsu, the Samurai City

Michela — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:30:06 +0000

Loyalty, obedience, sacrifice, honor… these are the values that we associate to the Samurai spirit of Bushido. In modern Japan there are still many traces of the feudal Japan of the past, such as the story of the 47 Ronin or that of the Byakkotai, the brigade of the White Tiger, whose events took place [...]

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Relive the Battle of Kawanakajima

Michela — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:30:45 +0000

Right in the heart of mountains called “Alps of Japan“, in the north of the ancient province of Shinano, corresponding to the southern part of present Nagano city, there is the valley of Kawanakajima, where the Chikumagawa and Saigawa rivers meet. Kawanakajima (literally ‘island between the rivers’) was the battlefield of at least five battles [...]

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The Soul of Samurai: Japanese Katana – visit to Arao City

Michela — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:17:23 +0000

In this article I want to bring you into the fascinating ancient Samurai world through the explanation of their legendary sword, the now famous, even in the West, Katana. Everyone knows that the Katana is the Japanese sword and its main characteristic is to be bent and have only one thread (only one sharp edge), [...]

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Sakura City, a samurai village just outside Tokyo

Michela — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:08:36 +0000

Think for a while at the lights of Shinjuku, then, close your eyes for about an hour and a half by train and re-open them once you arrive in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture: you will walking through quiet streets between Samurai houses and a bamboo forest less crowded than Arashiyama ones. Sakura is a quiet town [...]

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Kitsuki, the Samurai City of Kimono

Michela — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:40:00 +0000

Walking in kimono through the streets of an ancient charm Japanese Town, sit at the window in a samurai house and admire the beautiful garden while the sound of the Koto spread in the air, far away from the hordes of tourists who crowd the streets of the ancient Kyoto… can you imagine something that [...]

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Sengakuji, the 47 Ronin Temple

Michela — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 04:30:00 +0000

If the tales of feudal Japan, of clashes between samurai and stories of honor, fascinate you, you will surely know the story of the 47 Ronin. Fictionalized and revisited in a fantasy key, this story was made famous in the Western Countries thanks to the homonymous film (not really connected to the real story), [...]

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