‘History’ Archives
Ancient music of Japan, Gagaku
In the ancient time of Japan, people among aristocrats enjoyed original music of Japan called Gagaku. Especially in Heian Era ( late 8th century ), when was a prosperous time for aristocrats called Fujiwara Clan, it's a luxury entertainment. As you hear, this is a very strange music with super unique melody by amazingly old time musical [...]
Herman Van Rompuy wrote Haiku for Japan
The Japanese don't know much about EU. The name, EU, is naturally famous and familiar to us, but how they work or what they aim at is not known to the Japanese. Actually, probably many of the Japanese don't know even about the fact of existence of EU president. Herman Van Rompuy is the president of EU now. Today he had a meeting with [...]
Obon Time of Japan
It's an update in this blog after a long time interval. Sorry about it. Now we have, what we call, Obon time in Japan, which is one of traditional national events with consecutive national holidays. Usually people of Japan enjoy holidays from 13th to 15th of August, and many go back to their hometown. The reason for their retruning home is [...]
Onbashira Festival makes people mad and holy
I wrote about this festival at recent news. It has just begun in Nagano of Japan. People get crazy and hot at this festival. Looking at the video of this festival below, I really think why people get mad like this even by risking their life. Actually, this festival's climax time, sliding the tree poles scenes look really mad and dangerous. [...]
The Jar of Manna ( Three Sacred Treasures ) is in Japan ? Nintoku Emperor Grave
In the ancient time of Japan, from the mid 3rd century to the end of 7th century, there was a time called Kofun Era, which means the era of old graves. During this era, people at the time built a lot of large size graves. Most of them are for Emperors or the related families of Emperors. Nobody could tell why they built such a lot of large [...]
Onbashira Festival of Suwa Taisha starts in Nagano
In the city of Matsumoto of Nagano Prefecture in Japan, there is an old shrine called Suwa Taisha. This is a very big and strange shrine for us Japanese too in some reasons. This shrine has a very unique and famous festival valled Onbashira Festival. How unique is it ? Maybe words can't tell it exactly, but it's a super strange festival for [...]
SUMO is a tribute to God
If you try to remember a Japanese sport, what would it be ? Baseball or football are recently popular but I'm sure some of you remember SUMO wrestling first of all. Probably Sumo is too strange for other countries people. For us Japanese, it's really hard to answer what SUMO really is. When we are born in Japan, Sumo is regularly held 4 [...]
CHIUNE SUGIHARA still tells us something
This is not a public news but just a thought of mine. Today I saw a video of CHIUNE SUGIHARA, who save lots of Jewish people in the war time. The video in the bottom is a digest of the long story. It's a beautiful story but we Japanese don't know. Recently this story was on air a few times, so some may know, but not much of us know [...]
Japan with Hidden Cross – Ken Joseph (Jr.)
This book was very interesting for me. I've already read some books about history of Japanese religions and immigrants from other parts of the world. The Author, Ken Joseph and Ken Joseph Jr. explained how our history education has had a lot of lack in teaching religion of Japan, and the people of Japan. We Japanese learn that Buddhism [...]
Tengu- The shadow of Jewish in Japan
In Japan, there are many strange creatures in the tale of history, in the old books, and sometimes it's still visible as statue in temples or shrines. Tengu ( see photo) is one of the strange creatures living in the legend of Japan. Tengu is believed to live in the steep mountains and he is strong with much knowledge for life. Please see [...]
