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Exhibition of YOSHIWARA in March 2024
At the University Art Museum Yoshiwara in Edo, now Tokyo, is known as the pleasure quarter licensed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The brothels were built upon the sacrifice of the...
Exhibition of YOSHIWARA in March 2024
At the University Art Museum Yoshiwara in Edo, now Tokyo, is known as the pleasure quarter licensed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The brothels were built upon the sacrifice of the...
Hayokpira in Hokkaido
“Hayokpira", means "armed cliff" in Ainu language, is located in neighborhood of Biratori Shrine and facing the Saru River. It is said that Okikurmi Kamuy, the founder of the Ainu...
Hayokpira in Hokkaido
“Hayokpira", means "armed cliff" in Ainu language, is located in neighborhood of Biratori Shrine and facing the Saru River. It is said that Okikurmi Kamuy, the founder of the Ainu...
Ainu Embroideries at the exhibitions
These numbers are marked at the left of each pictures, which are excellent works of Ainu's embroideries.①② JR Sapporo Station in 2019③④⑤ Ainu Culture Center by the Foundation for Ainu Culture in...
Ainu Embroideries at the exhibitions
These numbers are marked at the left of each pictures, which are excellent works of Ainu's embroideries.①② JR Sapporo Station in 2019③④⑤ Ainu Culture Center by the Foundation for Ainu Culture in...
Names of the bus stops in Ainu language
Names of the bus stops in Ainu language (within Biratori-city, from Shinnitou to Ninarachimipu) ● Names of the bus stops in Ainu language were determined by the old names of...
Names of the bus stops in Ainu language
Names of the bus stops in Ainu language (within Biratori-city, from Shinnitou to Ninarachimipu) ● Names of the bus stops in Ainu language were determined by the old names of...
Map of Biratori-cho Hokkaido in Ainu language
Names of places in Hokkaido mostly come from Ainu language. It certifies that Hokkaido had been Ainu “Mosiri” (country or land). However, they have been changed...
Map of Biratori-cho Hokkaido in Ainu language
Names of places in Hokkaido mostly come from Ainu language. It certifies that Hokkaido had been Ainu “Mosiri” (country or land). However, they have been changed...
Family crest of Okura family, Hotel Okura
Mr. Kishichiro Okura, 1882-1963, a successor of the Okura conglomerate and founder of the Hotel Okura, married Ms. Kumiko Mizoguchi who was a daughter of the last lord of Shibata...
Family crest of Okura family, Hotel Okura
Mr. Kishichiro Okura, 1882-1963, a successor of the Okura conglomerate and founder of the Hotel Okura, married Ms. Kumiko Mizoguchi who was a daughter of the last lord of Shibata...