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Japanese Street Fashion

A round window at Meigetsu-in temple

Japan’s national anthem, Kimi Ga Yo (君が代), is the world’s oldest anthem. Its lyrics are based on a Waka poem written in the Heian period (794-1185), sung to a melody written in the later Meiji period.

Lyrics:
May your reign
Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations,
Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush with moss

Morning in Yamakoshi Village

The word that seemed
the most sincere to me
was not able to express
my feelings

Author: Irakli Kakabadze / ｲｱｷ ｶﾍﾞ
Illustration: The Nocturne for Sorrow by Shinobu Tanno

სიტყვა,
რომელმაც ვერ გამოთქვა
ჩემი სათქმელი,
ყველაზე სუფთა
და გულწრფელი მეგულებოდა …

ავტორი: იაკი კაბე
ილუსტრაცია:  "ღამის პეიზაჟი მწუხარებისათვის", შინობუ ტანნო

Hakone Shrine

Japanese Beauty

In the Photo: Kō Shibasaki

Eihei-ji Temple

Kiwi vine and white roses, Ikebana

February 11: National Foundation Day (建国記念の日 Kenkoku Kinen no Hi) 

Japan annually celebrates the foundation of Japan and the accession of its first Emperor, Emperor Jimmu on this day

Photo: Woodblock Print by Ginko Adachi

Kanazawa Station is one of the most unique train station architectures of Japan

Ca 1905 Meiji-era Portrait of a Japanese girl

Great Buddha at Kamakura, 1930

― Hasui Kawase

Gokayama Historic Village
It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture.

Kifune Shrine (貴船神社)

Kifune Shrine is a Shinto shrine located at Sakyō-ku in Kyoto, Japan. Although the area is called Kibune (貴船, lit. yellow boat), the shrine’s name is pronounced Kifune.

Bamboo Light Festival in Kouzuke, Nachikatsuura

Clearing after a Snowfall, Yoshida (Yoshida no yukibare), 1944.

― Hasui Kawase

Shinkansen Bullet Train and Mount Fuji

Irezumi

Illustration by Ozuma Kaname

Lanterns at Danjo Garan, Koyasan