In Japan, people started to believe in the Seven Lucky Gods during the Kamakura period (1185-1333). The faith then grew up quickly through the prosperous business area of the Muromachi period (1338-15
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Yashima, located at the east side of Takamatsu city in Kagawa prefecture, was in the Edo period a lava plateau island looking like a roof, so people named it as “roof-island”. As salt farms started an
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Kagawa, the smallest prefecture in Japan, was once called Sanuki province, and its smallest local government was Utazu located in the middle of Sanuki. However, Utazu was the political center of Sanuk
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In 1952, Mister YANAGI Soetsu (also called YANAGI Muneyoshi) the father of the Mingei movement, established the concept of folkcraft which means the hand-crafted art of ordinary people, and also the b
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After a 5-minute ride bus from the Tonosho port of Shodoshima to Tonosho-honmachi you will arrive to the Meiro-no-Machi Dofuchi Strait which is recorded on The Guinness Book of World Records as the na
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In Japan, Yokai can be divided into three groups: Yurei (ghost), Yokai (monster), and Obake (monsters who have the ability to shapeshift). The father of Japanese native folkloristics, Mr. Yanagida Kun
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In Japan, the history of grape planting can be traced down to the Kamakura or Edo period. Back in time, the grapes was only eat like any kind of berries, until the beginning of the Meiji period when t
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