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Japan’s very first castles were mountain castles or yamajiro. Unfortunately, many of them do not exist anymore, due to the

Miyoshi Nagayoshi: The Young Conquerer of Japan

After the Onin War, the country had lost faith in the Ashikaga shogunate. This lack of trust lead to the

For many, the Japanese samurai is the very pinnacle of ancient Japan– over even Japanese culture as a whole. While

While Japan’s most ancient road, the Takenouchi, ends in Nagao Shrine, this shrine is the beginning of another ancient road,

The Takenouchi Kaido is the oldest road in Japanese history. Ever since ancient times, people used this road to go

Takenouchi Kaido is the oldest road in Japan going 26km from Sakai to west Nara. Even before Osaka and Kyoto

If you walk around Nara or Asuka, you will see three mountains standing along the Nara Basin. Those three mountains

For many, many years the southern area of what is today Shiga prefecture was politically important for many warlords. Its