Fuji Hakone Izu Travel Guide "Japanions"

14/09/2020

Japanese Noh Theater at Odawara Castle [Aoi no Ue]
-The Tale of Genji -

date_range 09.13 (日) 20:00 ⇨ 09.16 (水) 21:00

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------ What is Noh? ------
Noh is a Japanese traditional performing art born in the 14th century. Since then, Noh has been performed continuously until today. It is Japan’s oldest form of theatrical performance still in existence. The word “Noh” is derived from the Japanese word for “skill” or “talent”.The use of Noh masks convey human emotions and historical heroes and heroines. Noh plays typically last from 2-3 hours and an excerpt from these performances will be one display at Odawara Castle. Noh characters are traditionally played by men, even the female roles. Noh is described as simple and sophisticated with its set of musical instruments, chorus, stage equipment and production. Zeami, Noh's genius, developed numerous artistic theories such as "Fūshikaden," which is also known as "The Flowering Spirit". These are read across the world today and their influence on this century's entertainment is still strong.

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"Noh" performance, titled "Japanese Noh Theater at Odawara Castle 'Aoi no Ue' - The Tale of Genji -," will be streamed on Sunday, September 13, 2020 (in Japa...

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16/03/2020

"The birthplace of Shonan・Oiso town (Kanagawa)"
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I took a walk through around station of the Oiso town of scenic beauty which was said to be "The birthplace of Shonan" this time.
JR Tokaido Line, Oiso Station that the walk started from is a station chosen as 100 selections of Kanto stations (100 unusual railroad stations of the Kanto district chosen as part of a commemorative event on "the day of the railroad" of Japan) in 2000, and the station building of the triangle roof is a station letting a country color feel. As there is a tourist information center at 100 selections of Kanto station squares, I have a walk map and leave it.
Firstly I aimed at the great writer of the Showa, Toson Shimazaki's house leaving many masterpieces including the "Yoake-mae (Before the Dawn) ", "Hakai (The Broken Commandment)" I left Oiso Station and went ahead through the path along the track towards the west.

#日本 #神奈川県 #大磯 #寺

09/03/2020

”Walk around Kameido (Tokyo)”

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I took a walk through a downtown area of Tokyo, around Kameido this time. This ground was a marine island called Kamenosima, and a spring called "Kamegaido"(ido=well) which there was in the village called Kamemura of the island becomes famous, and it is said that this ground came to be called "Kameido" all too soon in the Edo era in old days.
At first, I went to Katori Shrine with the monument of the origin of Kamegaido of this place name. I go ahead through the station square mall from the JR Sobu Line Kameido Station north exit, and there is a torii of Katori Shrine when I turn left at Kuramaebashi-dori St. I turn right at there, and there is Katori Shrine when I pass through the Katori Daimon Kachiun mall. When Prince Kamatari Fujiwara went to the eastern country for 665 years, he puts a ship to this Kamenoshima, and prayed for the coming of Katosi taijin, dedicated sword one, and it is the origin of the foundation of the Katori shrine of Kameido that he prayed for the peace and security of the trip. It was in the middle of the Heian era (around 930),
#日本 #東京都 #亀戸 #神社

25/02/2020

"Atami plum garden of the early blooming and power spot Kinomiya Shrine (Shizuoka)"

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For the early spring, I visited Atami city that was famous in a hot spring this time. I change to Izu Kyuko Line at JR Atami Station and get off at "Kinomiya Station" of the next station. I walked for around five minutes and visited "Kinomiya Shrine". As it was a big tree and rock, the naturally comfortable ground including the waterfall, in the ancient times, a Shinto shrine is completed from the nature worship, and it is Kinomiya Shrine that it was in a place of the faith of the people of Atami neighboring villages. Therefore, it is said "Kinomiya" (shrine of the tree) until the Edo era, and is a shrine to worship gods dwelling in "a tree".

#日本 #静岡県 #熱海 #神社 #庭園

17/02/2020

"Enoshima where ice tulips bloom and Ryukoji temple (Kanagawa)"
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It is about 15 minutes on foot to Enoshima and arrived in bronze Otorii of the Enoshima entrance through Bentembashi. Through Benzaiten nakamise dori lined with a souvenir shop and restaurants from here to Enoshima Shrine. "Enoshima Jinja shrine" is the Shinto shrine consisting of three of "Hetsumiya, Nakatsumiya, Okutsumiya", and one of Japan's three biggest Benzaiten "n**e Benzaiten, Myon Benzaiten" is enshrined in the temple. In addition, it is known as a power spot of matchmaking, and there is "a tree of Musubi". I went and worshiped here and went to Enoshima Samuel Cocking Garden with fine-view lighthouse "Sea Candle". As it is such a long stone stairway for 20 minutes when I walk, as for the person that it is hard to walk, what use "Enoshima eskar" of the outdoors escalator (pay) is good.

#日本 #神奈川県 #江ノ島 #寺 #庭園

03/02/2020

"Walk around Yanaka, Nezu (Tokyo)"
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I took a walk through a downtown area of Tokyo, around Yanaka, Nezu this time. Around Yanaka, there is a metropolitan cemetery of about 100,000 square meters in area called Yanaka Cemetery, and many celebrities including last general of the Tokugawa era, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, great actor, Kazuo Hasegawa of the Showa, businessman, Eiichi Shibusawa drawn on the new ten-thousand yen bill and great master, Taikan Yokoyama of the Japanese painting are at rest there. Therefore, here becomes Teramachi with many temples in the outskirts. At the time when I just came, an event called "Yanaka Shichifukujin-meguri" (a tour of the Seven Deities of Good Fortune) was carried out, and most of the people who got off a train at JR Nippori Station walked the map to one hand. When I go out the station west exit and go the slope along the track to the left, there is a temple called "Tennoji" immediately.
#日本 #東京都 #谷中 #寺 #神社

20/01/2020

"Walk around Kamakura Gozan (Five Temples), Jomyo-ji Temple and bamboo temple, Hokoku-ji Temple (Kanagawa)"

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Saw a weather forecast to become high in temperature today, took a walk through Kamakura after a long absence. I visited the temple which was one of Kamakura Gozan called Jomyo-ji Temple and two neighboring temples to arrive at from Kamakura Station by bus to the Asahina area for approximately 15 minutes this time.
At first, I went to "Hokoku-ji Temple" in the place like a 5-minute walk from the Jomyo-ji Temple bus stop. Hokoku-ji Temple was a Zen Buddhism temple of the Rinzai sect, Kencho-ji Temple group founded in 1334, and Ietoki Ashikaga who was a grandfather of Takauji Ashikaga who founded the Muromachi Shogunate did the open basis.

#日本 #神奈川県 #鎌倉 #寺

14/01/2020

"Walk of Meiji Jingu and the outskirts"

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I visited "Meiji Jingu" which was famous because most worshipers come for a New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine in Japan this time.
I went out JR "Harajuku Station" Omotesando Exit wicket and saw Otorii of Meiji Jingu on the right side as soon as I turned right. I went ahead through the long south approach to a shrine from here. The trees around the approach to a shrine were deep and felt that it was a holy place. Meiji Jingu Museum is on the right side when I go ahead about 200m. The Museum is opened to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Meiji Jingu. And the Museum keeps the treasure of the Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken connection in a good state for a long time and was opened as information dispatch facilities to have a worshiper understand Meiji Shrine more deeply. Furthermore, the approach to a shrine continues more when I go ahead through the approach to a shrine and turn left at the place that a barrel of the Western liquor dedicates it to the left side a barrel of the national sake on the right side, and is displayed and pass through second Otorii. As "the Meiji Jingu Gyoen (Imperial Gardens)" was on the left side in the middle of this approach to a shrine, I observed it.

#日本 #東京都 #神社

23/12/2019

"Visit of Imperial Palace, Daijokyu (Tokyo)"

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"Daijokyu-no-gi" （"Yukiden-Kyosen-no-gi" was performed from the evening of November 14 to the night, and "Sukiden-Kyosen-no-gi" was performed before dawn of 15th, the following day）is the Central ceremony of Daijosai, the ceremony after the enthronement, in which the Emperor offers newly-harvested rice to the Imperial Ancestor and to the deities of heaven and earth, and partakes of it himself, giving thanksand praying for peace and abundant harvests for the country and the people. As "Daijokyu Halls" which was a building built for "Daijokyu-no-gi" was available to the public during the period until from November 21 to December 8, I observed it.
As it is earlier next time for several years, or it is not revealed that I do not see "Daijokyu Halls" at this opportunity because it is broken after general visit, it is prosperous in the people of the visit very much day after day. I thought whether weekdays were vacant to some extent first of all and went out on Tuesday, December 3.

#日本 #東京都 #千代田区 #皇居 #神社

16/12/2019

"Walk of autumn Shinjuku Gyoen and Jingugaien (Tokyo)"

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As it was a season to hear the news of autumn colored leaves, I visited Shinjuku Gyoen which was just a place much-talked-about in "cherry blossom party". I entered Shinjuku Gyoen from the Shinjuku Gyoen "Shinjuku gate" in around ten minutes on foot from the JR Shinjuku Station southeast Exit. Shinjuku Gyoen is 58.3ha in area, a very large garden of neighborhood 3.5km and has three places of entrances. At the place where this neighborhood was called "Naito Shinjuku" in the Edo era, and there was a daimyo's mansion in Edo of the Shinshu lofty feudal lord Naitos that was a vassal of Ieyasu Tokugawa. When the Meiji era began, it became the agricultural experimental station here, and it was in a garden of the Imperial Family in 1906 and, in postwar period, was opened to the public as the nation park in 1949. It had 70th anniversary of the opening this year.

#日本 #東京都 #新宿区 #庭園 #博物館

10/12/2019

"A walk through Koedo, Sawara of Hokuso (Chiba)"

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Cityscape and Katori-jingu Shrine of Sawara are popular with Katori-shi located the north of Boso Peninsula as a tourist attraction. I took a walk through Sahara which was said to be Koedo of Hokuso this time.
You should walk leisurely to enjoy cityscape of Sawara while looking at old Machiya to be dotted with along Ono river. I get a sightseeing map in the JR Sahara station square information desk of the start and aim at the center of the Ono riverside, the Cyukei Bridge. As I arrive from the station in around ten minutes, I go north first in Ono riverside in the starting point here. Ono river is a river of less than 10m in width, and the tree of willow is planted on both sides of the river and makes scenery with the emotion. The riverside way is a street comfortable to walk in by width as one car can go. There is a building of "old Abuso-shouten" as soon as I go ahead through the way.

#日本 #千葉県 #佐原 #神社 #博物館

02/12/2019

"A walk through around Shiroganedai (Tokyo)"

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I took a walk through around Shirokanedai that was an upper-class residential area. I got off at Toei Mita Line Shirokane-Takanawa Station and took a walk towards the Meguro Station area. A bus stop called "Seisyoko-mae" stood out when I advanced for a while, on investigation there is the temple called "Kakurinji" within the striking distance, and here seems to be dedicated to Prince Kiyomasa Kato. The main shrine is a Toshogu Shrine style form, and the sculpture of an excellent dragon is carved under the eaves. I pass this temple and go ahead around 300m, and there is Happo-en in the place that curved to the left. It is said a mansion trace of direct feudatory of a sh**un,

#日本 #東京都 #白金台 #博物館

26/11/2019

"Visiting around Lake Biwa・at Nagahama（Shiga）"

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A trip around Lake Biwa. Finally, I visited Nagahama city located in north of Lake Biwa. Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi achieves an outstanding job by Ane River battle and a Kotani Castle attack, and Nagahama is the place where he built the castle by the achievement for the first time in about 1577. The place name of that time was Imahama, but it was changed the name to Nagahama by Hideyoshi, and he acted as the lord of a castle for approximately five years. In the Kiyosu meeting that selected a successor of Nobunaga, the lord of a castle was handed over to Katsuie Shibata and turned into nephew, Katsutoyo afterwards. However, it was attacked immediately by Hideyoshi, and the Nagahama Castle was based in militarily in the Battle of Shizugatake with Katsuie Shibata. Kazutoyo Yamauchi acted as the later lord of a castle, but became the abandoned castle in about 1615.

#日本 #滋賀県 #長浜市 #寺 #城

18/11/2019

"Visiting around Lake Biwa・at Omihachiman（Shiga）"

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A trip around around Lake Biwa, I went down the lake east more to the south from Hikone-shi and visited Omihachiman-shi this time.
Conqueror, Nobunaga Oda of the age of civil strife built a castle and the castle town in Azuchi. After Nobunaga died out, a castle and a castle town were opened in ground next to Azuchi, Hachimanyama by Hidetsugu Toyotomi of the nephew of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Azuchi castle town was moved with inhabitants then, and it is said that this led to Yawata merchant producing later. The cityscape is sectioned in the same way as Kyoto by a grid and becomes plain. "Omi merchant" is quotient active merchants in the whole country while putting the head office in the country of Omi in the Edo era. They explored markets on foot carrying-pole on their shoulders in the then major cities including Edo Nihonbashi, and played an active part for the first by trust in the world where "simple economy"and "simple and sturdy" were liked. In the downtown,

#日本 #滋賀県 #近江八幡 #博物館

11/11/2019

"Visiting around Lake Biwa・at Hikone（Shiga）"

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Lake Biwa is the largest lake in Japan,and is a one-sixth area of Shiga. It is said that it was named because the form of the lake resembles a Japanese musical instrument, biwa. In addition, it is the place that is important in the Japanese history because a place is near to Kyoto.
I reported on around Shiga Lake Biwa this time. I visited Hikone-shi located at the middle of the lake east and famous in Hikone-jo Castle first. In the current ruins of a castle, a place toed the mark is considered to be a special historic spot in a middle moat.
There are three places of entrances to Hikone-jo Castle. I decided to enter at Ote-mon Gate of the south side this time. Across the Uchibori Bridge of the Ote-gomon trace, there is a receptionist when I pass through the way among stone walls. I purchased an admission ticket here and went to Hikone-jo Castle. The way to a castle leads to the open space of the square when I advance while being out of breath in a slope.

#日本 #滋賀県 #彦根 #城

04/11/2019

"Walk around the Imperial Palace (Tokyo)"

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The name of an era turns into "Reiwa" from "Heisei", and the Enthronement Ceremony is going to be performed this year in autumn. Therefore I took a walk through around Imperial Palace where the Emperor lived this time. I took a walk in the course that went to the outer garden of the Imperial Palace from Sakurada-mon Gate via Hibiya Park from JR Yurakucho Station. Hibiya Park is the first Western-style modern park in Japan born by city planning in 1903. The Edo era, this neighborhood are the places where there was the mansion of Sotosakurada kamiyashiki of Sendai Date-han and Matsudaira Hizen-shu and others, the sign of the neighborhood of park entrance says "the ground of the end that Sendai ancestor of a lord, Masamune Date died at 70 years old when he went up to Edo for sankin-kotai (an alternate-year attendance) in May, 1636".The Department of the Army had jurisdiction over there as a parade ground in the Meiji era, and setting of Hibiya Park was notified by city planning afterwards in 1889.

#日本 #東京 #千代田区 #庭園

28/10/2019

"Ichiyajo of Mt. Ishigaki and Hojo family temple, Souunji temple"

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I visited Ichiyajo of Mt. Ishigaki and Souunji temple which was the family temple of Hojo five generations in Odawara-shi, Kanagawa as history sight-seeing this time
Mt. Ishigaki is in the southwestern part of Odawara-jo Castle, and the distance in a straight line from Odawara-jo Castle is approximately 3km, a slightly elevated mountain approximately 260m above sea level. Kampaku, Hideyoshi Toyotomi who aimed at the world unification in 1590 made up its mind to attack Odawara Hojo and left Kyoto in March. After his climbing Mt.Kasakake (because Ishigaki (a stone wall )was built afterwards that it is said Mt. Ishigaki) of Odawara in April one month later, and looking at Odawara-jo Castle, he watched that around the castle 9km was surrounded by by magnificent moat and fieldwork and judged that it was difficult to attack a castle with power and decided to build the castle in this ground to comprise it for the long war.

#日本 #神奈川県 #小田原市 #寺