A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, on March 26. The statue is ...

That upturning of the edge is most common in the traditional Japanese tanto shape. However, most tantos have a pretty sharp angle change to their edge, making them frustrating to sharpen. The VK-Kuze, ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

The pathway leading to the Golden Hall of Kyoto’s Ninnaji temple is enveloped in mist designed to resemble a sea of clouds, creating shadow-like silhouettes of visitors on Oct. 25. (Yoshiaki Arai) ...

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the grounds and the seasons,” an official of the temple said. Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Japan Oct.-Dec. GDP Revised Down to 2.2 Pct Annual Rise Japan Sells 141,796 Tons of Reserve ...

Below is a list of all 185 temples and each’s status as of April 2 — from dedicated and operational to scheduled for dedication, from under construction to scheduled for groundbreaking, and from those ...