This History-Drenched Japanese City Is A Less Frenzied Alternative To Tokyo
Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Huge statue cleaned at temple in Miyazaki Pref.
A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the city of Nobeoka, M･･･ ...
600-year-old weeping cherry tree blooming at temple northwest of Tokyo
One of the largest is the 600-year-old tree measuring 15 meters in height and having a circumference of three meters at its ...
Giant statue of ancient Buddhist monk in southwest Japan cleansed ahead of spring festival
One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...