Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

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The ninth-generation zen master of Shorinzan Daruman-ji temple popularized the papier ... Today, 80 percent of daruma dolls in Japan are made in Takasaki. The next time you see a Takasaki daruma ...

Japanese eki stamps (station stamps) are a charming feature of Japanese railway culture. Beloved by visitors and oshi-tetsu ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

The Tofukuji Hojo Gardens are nestled inside one of Kyoto's largest Zen temples, Tofukuji, and are mainly composed of four different quadrants surrounding each side around hojo building.

For more than a millennium, therefore, almost everything we associate with classical Japanese culture—kimonos, tea ceremonies, Zen temples and, yes, geisha—came to its fullest flowering and re ...

For me, I travelled to the Kansai area in Japan because of a short story I read some years ago. In the story, the author said that the statues in the Sanjusangen-do Temple were so real and ...

where you'll find the Byodo-In Temple, a Hawaii State Landmark that was established on June 7, 1968, to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. The temple ...