KYOTO, Japan - Noh mask carver Keiko Udaka is breathing new life into a block of wood from a 200-year-old Japanese cypress ...

The samurai were a class of skilled professional warriors, experts in deadly force. They were similar to European knights in ...

In about a kilometer, the Buddhist temple Kenchōji, one of the Gozan—the five great Zen temples of the Kamakura period (1185–1333)—comes into view. Stepping through the Sōmon, the outer ...

In 2024, the Tsukuba massif granite of the Mt. Tsukuba Area Geopark was certified by the International Union of Geological ...

As Leeson puts it: "Kamakura-era Japan was a dual polity….'Warrior rule' belongs to later eras in Japanese history." An analogy in European history would be if a military order such as the ...

Consider Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima, which is set in an even earlier era of Japanese history, the Kamakura period, when the Mongols first invaded the country in the late 13th ...

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It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200. Over the centuries, it moved from one place to another ...

The oldest one in Japan dated back to the latter part of the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). The newly found manuscript is scheduled to go on display at the Marunouchi main store of Maruzen Bookstore ...