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While reading about the history of the feudal domain of Aizu (for research purposes), I was reading other miscellaneous histories of the Edo Period of Japanese history (1600-1868), and came upon an interesting historical vignette that lives on today.
In Japanes...
I am about to start my second semester in learning Tai-gi (Taiwanese Hokkien), but I had an interesting experience...
Happy Friday, dear readers!
One of the fun aspects of traveling around the Aizu-Wakamatsu area is riding the local train line, the Aizu Lin...
I had this post drafted before the July trip to Japan, but after coming back, I find that I appreciate this passage is at the very end of The Hojoki, a 12th century Japanese-Buddhist essay, more and more:
I do not make claims f...
Moving on to a somewhat lighter subject, while visiting Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan we kept seeing banners like these inside elevators, at train stations, historical sites, etc.