If you are interest in porcelain, we recommend to visit Imari. Imari is most notable because of Imari porcelain which has 400 years history. There are about 30 potteries are manufacturing at Okawachiyama porcelain park. February 14, 2025

Imari, Okawachiyama porcelain park…の続きを読む

  Father Maximilian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894 and was a priest of the Conventual Order of St. Francis. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. He came to Japan in 1930 and began educating seminarians and publishing a monthly magazine ” the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary.” After that, the number of Japanese people who understood God’s teachings increased, and Hongouchi Church was established in 1931.   After six years in Japan, he returned to Poland for health reasons. And then, he volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland.   Saint Kolbe Memorial Museum was built to commemorate his canonization in 1986.  

Saint Kolbe Memorial Museum, at Hongouch…の続きを読む