Culture The History of Japan: Era by Era Joanna Ligon Let’s walk through the key historical periods that built the temples, cities... Interestingly, people began crafting more female and phallic-shaped figures
Culture Suita Fire Festival 2026 Mid Feb The annual Suita Fire Festival at Osaka's Jōkō Enmanji Temple has a history of around 1300 years, and is often referred to as the fire festival with no
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Culture Ryushi Memorial Museum, Omori Peter Sidell working on a painted dragon on the ceiling at nearby Ikegami Honmonji temple... Other paintings, possibly intended for temples, are in a more austere black
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Culture Inside the Kamakura Daibutsu Cordelia Ding The exterior of the enormous Buddha statue is of course, the most impressive part of the site, but what not many people know is that you can actually enter
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