Las montañas de Dewa Sanzan, en la prefectura japonesa de Yamagata, son un centro de peregrinación budista desde hace siglos. El lugar está repleto de santuarios, donde en la actualidad los fieles realizan peregrinaciones anuales y los excursionistas, arduas rutas de senderismo.
🚩 Meiji Shrine Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya City, Tokyo
Learn about the Meiji Era, a time of great change in Japan from 1868 to 1912 when the country was under the rule of the great Emperor Mutsuhito.
One of the most popular destinations in Tokyo is Meiji Jingu (明治神宮), built to honor Emperor Meiji who modernized Japan and open its door to the west.
The Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu) in Tokyo was built as a dedication to Emperor Meiji, the first emperor of modern Japan and his wife, Empress Shoken. I found this shinto shrine situated next to Hara…
Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards comprises a beautiful decorative box and contains 20 assorted blank Japanese notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with soft white envelopes. Printed in full colour on recycled paper with soy based inks on high-quality 250 gsm card stock and left blank to enable you to create your own special message! Among the leading printmakers of the day was Kawase Hasui, whose specialty was exquisitely rendered landscape scenes. The precision of the artist’s renderings is matched only by their poetic repose. The Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards contains 5 each of the following Japanese cards: Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931 Morning at Mitohama, 1952 Iris Garden at Meiji Shrine Tokyo, 1951 Autumn at Saruiwa Shiobara, 1949 Cards: 17cm x 12cm / 7 x 5 inches Box: 19cm x 13.5cm x 4cm / 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches Order your Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cardsonline today and have it gift wrapped free of charge!
As we passed by the unique Harajuku subway building to the start of the walking path down to Meiji Shrine I was struck by the scale of the place. In a city with the population density of Tokyo you would imagine there would be very little public open space let alone a forest in the middle of the city. That the shrine grounds occupy 174 acres sprawling between Shinjuku and Shibuya leaves no doubt that Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken were very highly regarded by the people of Japan .
"Illustration of Flowering Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Park." (Right-hand plate.) "Illustration of Flowering Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Park." The politics of Japan - both internal and international - were complicated and very troubled at the time of the Meiji Emperor's accession in 1867. According to the Nihon Shoki, the classical history of Japan, the nation has had an emperor since 660 BC, but for almost seven hundred years prior to the Meiji Restoration, Japan was actually controlled by a Shogunate, the emperors revered but virtually powerless. But with the forced opening of trade with the United States in the 1850s, the old systems of government had proved unequal to Western aggression, and the power of the Shogun was under attack. Finally, in 1868, after more than a decade of unrest, the new Emperor - still only fifteen years old - made a formal declaration of the restoration of his power, a restoration of practical imperial rule in Japan. In the following years, he oversaw radical changes in the country's political, military, and social structures, as Japan transformed itself from a feudal and isolationist society into a modern international power. "A Mirror of Japan’s Nobility - The Emperor Meiji, His Wife, and Prince Haru." Chikanobu's images of the Emperor, the Empress, and ladies of the Imperial court are a vivid example of the ruler's push to Westernize Japan. Court dress and uniforms for men, based on European models, were decreed only three years after the Restoration. Soon, too, fashionable, upper-class ladies, inspired by the Empress, took up wearing Western dress in public. And in 1886 - just prior to the images here - the court set out rules for ladies' formal wear. (None of these examples are of formal wear.) Ironically, Chikanobu, who so brilliantly described the lavish European fashion in his work here, came to greatly regret the changes in his country, the ever-escalating Westernization, the loss of its traditional culture. "Blooming Chrysanthemums in an Autumn Garden." "Excursion to View Cherry Blossoms by the Sumida River." "Meiji Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Attendants in Western Clothing." "Meiji Emperor Prepares to Leave the Palace in the Phoenix Carriage." "Meiji Emperor and Empress - Autumn Colors." "Illustration of the Garden Refreshed after the Rain." "A Scene of the Japanese Diet." "A Contest of Elegant Ladies among the Cherry Blossoms." "Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom." "Procession Outside Tokyo Imperial Palace with Meiji Emperor and his Consort." "Meiji Constitution Promulgation." "The Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Ladies on an Outing to Asuka Park." "Illustration of Singing by the Plum Garden." "Visit of the Empress to the Third National Industrial Promotional Exhibition at Ueno Park." "Meiji Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Attendants in Western Clothing/Royal Couple with Chrysanthemums." "The Emperor Enjoys A Cool Evening." *** Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延, better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu 楊洲周延, the name with which he signed his work: 1838–1912), woodblock artist of Japan's Meiji period. Born in Niigata Prefecture as Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義), he was the eldest of two children, his father a retainer of the powerful Sakakibara clan of samurai in Echigo Province. He showed artistic abilities as a young child and was given lessons with respected teachers. He also trained in the martial arts, and after the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he joined the Shōgitai, an elite fighting corps, and became famous for his bravery in battle. In 1871, three years into the Meiji era, he established himself in Tokyo as a professional artist. He had studied several genres of art making, but was most drawn to ukiyo-e. His subject matter displayed great variety, ranging from Japanese mythology to battle scenes to ladies' fashions, from scenes of natural disasters to actor portraits. He illustrated events both contemporary and historical. He was very successful, but by the last decade of the century, he and much of his audience were becoming dismayed by the rapid changes taking place in Tokyo and were increasingly nostalgic about the lost world of the Shogunate, and his later work reflects this nostalgia. His last works featured retrograde images of the brave samurai and heroic women of Japan's past, and by 1905 his production of work had dwindled. He died of stomach cancer at the age of seventy-five.
Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards comprises a beautiful decorative box and contains 20 assorted blank Japanese notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with soft white envelopes. Printed in full colour on recycled paper with soy based inks on high-quality 250 gsm card stock and left blank to enable you to create your own special message! Among the leading printmakers of the day was Kawase Hasui, whose specialty was exquisitely rendered landscape scenes. The precision of the artist’s renderings is matched only by their poetic repose. The Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards contains 5 each of the following Japanese cards: Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931 Morning at Mitohama, 1952 Iris Garden at Meiji Shrine Tokyo, 1951 Autumn at Saruiwa Shiobara, 1949 Cards: 17cm x 12cm / 7 x 5 inches Box: 19cm x 13.5cm x 4cm / 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches Order your Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cardsonline today and have it gift wrapped free of charge!
As we passed by the unique Harajuku subway building to the start of the walking path down to Meiji Shrine I was struck by the scale of the place. In a city with the population density of Tokyo you would imagine there would be very little public open space let alone a forest in the middle of the city. That the shrine grounds occupy 174 acres sprawling between Shinjuku and Shibuya leaves no doubt that Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken were very highly regarded by the people of Japan .
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, sails into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron of four vessels. For a time, Japanese officials refused to speak with Perry, but under threat of attack by the superior American ships they accepted letters from President Millard Fillmore, making the United States the first Western nation to […]
The Meiji period refers to the period in Japanese history from 1868 to 1912 during which the Meiji Emperor reigned. Following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration of 1868...
Ehagaki sekai (絵葉書世界), Late Meiji era postcards, Japan, c. 1908.
Jindaiji is a hidden gem in Tokyo with one of the oldest Buddhist temples in the region and many traditional soba restaurants and stores.
Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards comprises a beautiful decorative box and contains 20 assorted blank Japanese notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with soft white envelopes. Printed in full colour on recycled paper with soy based inks on high-quality 250 gsm card stock and left blank to enable you to create your own special message! Among the leading printmakers of the day was Kawase Hasui, whose specialty was exquisitely rendered landscape scenes. The precision of the artist’s renderings is matched only by their poetic repose. The Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards contains 5 each of the following Japanese cards: Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931 Morning at Mitohama, 1952 Iris Garden at Meiji Shrine Tokyo, 1951 Autumn at Saruiwa Shiobara, 1949 Cards: 17cm x 12cm / 7 x 5 inches Box: 19cm x 13.5cm x 4cm / 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches Order your Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cardsonline today and have it gift wrapped free of charge!
People from all over Japan (and from all over the world too) leave these prayer boards on which they write their wishes for the monks of the monastery to bless. Japan, Tokyo 2006
Meiji Jingu is one of the most famous shrines in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1920 by the people who donated 100,000 trees from all over Japan and overseas. Now the shrine is covered by a big forest, and you can feel spirits in here. I write 8 interesting things you should know before visiting. You will see why I wrote 8 later. CHECK 1 - Enshrined deities are souls of Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, who passed away in 1912 and 1914. At that time, Emperor was just like God for Japanese people. Meiji Jingu is comparatively new shrine. CHECK 2 - The precinct's temperature of the shrine is 3 degree Celsius below compared to outside metro area in Tokyo because it is covered by a big forest. The forest is artificial and created by donated trees. The forest has 245 species of trees, which is unusual for a forest. CHECK 3 - The number of visitors to the shrine is about 3,500,000 per year, and 1,200,000 people of them are foreign visitors. Wow, 1 of 3 people are from overseas! CHECK 4 - after a while you walk in the shrine, you can see Sake (rice wine) barrels and grape wine barrels donated. At normal shrines, you do not see grape wine barrels even though Sake is sacred drink in Japan. In Meiji period, Japan finally has opened the door to overseas and started to learn Western cultures. Emperor Meiji also tried western style attire and hair. Especially he loved grape wine, and it is said that he passed away due to diabetes. CHECK 5 - Because center of the approach is for the divine sprits' passage, try to walk on the left side of the approach to the main hall. CHECK 6 - The corner of the approach to the mail hall is not 90 degree, but 88 degree angle because 8 is lucky number in Japan when we write in Chinese character, the shape of 8 is auspicious. CHECK 7 - The second shrine gateway of Meiji Jingu is the biggest wooden gateway in Japan. The material wood used is Japanese cypress, 1,500 year old and brought from Taiwan. You can still smell the scent of wood especially in a rainy day. CHECK 8 - The heart shape ♥ you can find of shrine's structure is not heart, it is actually the eyes of wild boars. They do not like fires, and their eyes can protect wooden shrines from fires... not sure if they are really heart shape?? But try to find hearts in the shrine! I hope you can find something new about Meiji Jingu? Experience Japan!
The famous Meiji Jingu Shrine is a must-visit power spot when you find yourself in Tokyo. Here we have listed some of the best (hidden) places to visit at the largest shrine in Tokyo!…
A travel guide to Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu) is Tokyo’s. Visit most popular shrine in Japan's Capital. Learn all about opening hours & tickets.
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Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards comprises a beautiful decorative box and contains 20 assorted blank Japanese notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with soft white envelopes. Printed in full colour on recycled paper with soy based inks on high-quality 250 gsm card stock and left blank to enable you to create your own special message! Among the leading printmakers of the day was Kawase Hasui, whose specialty was exquisitely rendered landscape scenes. The precision of the artist’s renderings is matched only by their poetic repose. The Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cards contains 5 each of the following Japanese cards: Spring Night at Inokashira, 1931 Morning at Mitohama, 1952 Iris Garden at Meiji Shrine Tokyo, 1951 Autumn at Saruiwa Shiobara, 1949 Cards: 17cm x 12cm / 7 x 5 inches Box: 19cm x 13.5cm x 4cm / 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches Order your Kawase Hasui Box 20 Japanese Greetings Cardsonline today and have it gift wrapped free of charge!
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地球全体がミニ氷河期だった江戸時代。現代のような温かいコートやダウン、ヒートテックなどないなかで、人々はどのような服装で冬の寒さをしのいだのでしょうか？
Nice shot of her obi reflected in the large dressing mirror, her hands seen reaching to make some unseen adjustment. Although I cannot read the labels on the two smaller bottles, the large box has Japanese lettering for what would be transliterated as "Reeto Fuudo", and some English lettering for "______ FOOD". I can't get the first word.... perhaps something imported. Anybody know ? NEWS FLASH !!! Astute Japanese flicker guy HisuiJADE has solved the secret of the MYSTERY BOX. It is "Lait Food" [Milk Food]....The bottles being "Milk Lotion", and the box contains some kind of "Milky White" face powder. Perhaps this is an an advertising photo of some sort. PLEASE SEE HisuiJADE's comment # 7 below, and the great LINKS he gives to the old ads for the products in the above photo. THANKS, Hisui ! Back to the pretty girl and her kimono, the Obi in the mirror is the reason for posting --- unless one of your flickr "Geisha Girls" notices anything else interesting in the photo.
"Illustration of Flowering Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Park." (Right-hand plate.) "Illustration of Flowering Cherry Blossoms at Ueno Park." The politics of Japan - both internal and international - were complicated and very troubled at the time of the Meiji Emperor's accession in 1867. According to the Nihon Shoki, the classical history of Japan, the nation has had an emperor since 660 BC, but for almost seven hundred years prior to the Meiji Restoration, Japan was actually controlled by a Shogunate, the emperors revered but virtually powerless. But with the forced opening of trade with the United States in the 1850s, the old systems of government had proved unequal to Western aggression, and the power of the Shogun was under attack. Finally, in 1868, after more than a decade of unrest, the new Emperor - still only fifteen years old - made a formal declaration of the restoration of his power, a restoration of practical imperial rule in Japan. In the following years, he oversaw radical changes in the country's political, military, and social structures, as Japan transformed itself from a feudal and isolationist society into a modern international power. "A Mirror of Japan’s Nobility - The Emperor Meiji, His Wife, and Prince Haru." Chikanobu's images of the Emperor, the Empress, and ladies of the Imperial court are a vivid example of the ruler's push to Westernize Japan. Court dress and uniforms for men, based on European models, were decreed only three years after the Restoration. Soon, too, fashionable, upper-class ladies, inspired by the Empress, took up wearing Western dress in public. And in 1886 - just prior to the images here - the court set out rules for ladies' formal wear. (None of these examples are of formal wear.) Ironically, Chikanobu, who so brilliantly described the lavish European fashion in his work here, came to greatly regret the changes in his country, the ever-escalating Westernization, the loss of its traditional culture. "Blooming Chrysanthemums in an Autumn Garden." "Excursion to View Cherry Blossoms by the Sumida River." "Meiji Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Attendants in Western Clothing." "Meiji Emperor Prepares to Leave the Palace in the Phoenix Carriage." "Meiji Emperor and Empress - Autumn Colors." "Illustration of the Garden Refreshed after the Rain." "A Scene of the Japanese Diet." "A Contest of Elegant Ladies among the Cherry Blossoms." "Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom." "Procession Outside Tokyo Imperial Palace with Meiji Emperor and his Consort." "Meiji Constitution Promulgation." "The Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Ladies on an Outing to Asuka Park." "Illustration of Singing by the Plum Garden." "Visit of the Empress to the Third National Industrial Promotional Exhibition at Ueno Park." "Meiji Emperor, Empress, Crown Prince, and Court Attendants in Western Clothing/Royal Couple with Chrysanthemums." "The Emperor Enjoys A Cool Evening." *** Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延, better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu 楊洲周延, the name with which he signed his work: 1838–1912), woodblock artist of Japan's Meiji period. Born in Niigata Prefecture as Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義), he was the eldest of two children, his father a retainer of the powerful Sakakibara clan of samurai in Echigo Province. He showed artistic abilities as a young child and was given lessons with respected teachers. He also trained in the martial arts, and after the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he joined the Shōgitai, an elite fighting corps, and became famous for his bravery in battle. In 1871, three years into the Meiji era, he established himself in Tokyo as a professional artist. He had studied several genres of art making, but was most drawn to ukiyo-e. His subject matter displayed great variety, ranging from Japanese mythology to battle scenes to ladies' fashions, from scenes of natural disasters to actor portraits. He illustrated events both contemporary and historical. He was very successful, but by the last decade of the century, he and much of his audience were becoming dismayed by the rapid changes taking place in Tokyo and were increasingly nostalgic about the lost world of the Shogunate, and his later work reflects this nostalgia. His last works featured retrograde images of the brave samurai and heroic women of Japan's past, and by 1905 his production of work had dwindled. He died of stomach cancer at the age of seventy-five.
