Kabuki, is one of Japanese traditional stage arts along with Nho   It is said to have originated in Kyoto with a woman named Okuni at the beginning of the 17th century. However, it is now performed only by ma …

Kabuki…の続きを読む

  Waka is a style of verse usually containing thirty-one syllable in five lines. It follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern.          　 Waka is probably the oldest poetic style in Japan. In Heian period ( 784-1185) the …

Waka…の続きを読む

Beppu in Oita Prefecture is a popular hot spring town nestle at the foot  of volcanos, Mt. Yufu and Mt. Tsurumi.           Boasting more than 2,800 hot spring sources and …

Beppu Onsen resort…の続きを読む

Yabakei Region is a part of Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National  Park located in Nakatsu-city, Oita-prefecture. A grand gorge created through a lava plateau of the largest  scale in Japan by the&nbs …

Yabakei…の続きを読む

Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum near Kokura castle is a facility dedicated to the memory of one of the great writers in modern Japan, Seicho Matsumoto, who is a native of Kitakyushu.   Directions 　・A 10 minute walk …

Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum…の続きを読む

Fukuoka Akarenga Cultural Center was built as an insurance company  office in 1909. 　　 The building is designated as a nationally important cultural property. The chic British-style building was designed by renowned …

Fukuoka Akarenga Cultural Center…の続きを読む

Akiyoshidai is one of the largest limestone caves in the world, located  approximately 100 meters beneath the Akiyoshidai limestone plateau in the western  part of Yamaguchi Prefecture.     One k …

Akiyoshidai…の続きを読む

Kintaikyo Bridge, located in Iwakuni-city, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is a series of five-arched wooden bridge on four stone piers that extends across the lower Nishiki River.     This unique bridge, which is 1 …

Kintaikyou Bridge…の続きを読む

Arita porcelain called Arita-yaki is 400-year old porcelain from Arita in  Saga Prefecture. The piece have bright, elegant pictures drawn in transparent while  porcelain. In the early 17th century, a group led …

Arita porcelain…の続きを読む

At this place in August 1864, the combined fleet of America, Britain, France and  Holland attacked and defeated the Choshu-han Clan, which governed this  region of Japan.    This event was a turn …

Toward the Meiji Restoration…の続きを読む