#edoperiod — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.alojapan.com/1480579/opinion-from-japan-to-india-overtourism-cries-out-for-new-success-metrics/ Opinion | From Japan to India, overtourism cries out for new success metrics ##maharashtra #agra #AndhraPradesh #asia #EdoPeriod #goa #Gujarat #India #Jaipur #JapanNationalTourismOrganisation #JapanTourism #Karnataka #Kyoto #ladakh #manali #rajasthan #tourism Can tourism be considered successful if arrivals increase, but the local communities – the very soul of the destination – feel strained and excluded? Too often, tourism success is measur

https://www.alojapan.com/1480579/opinion-from-japan-to-india-overtourism-cries-out-for-new-success-metrics/ Opinion | From Japan to India, overtourism cries out for new success metrics ##maharashtra #agra #AndhraPradesh #asia #EdoPeriod #goa #Gujarat #India #Jaipur #JapanNationalTourismOrganisation #JapanTourism #Karnataka #Kyoto #ladakh #manali #rajasthan #tourism Can tourism be considered successful if arrivals increase, but the local communities – the very soul of the destination – feel strained and excluded? Too often, tourism success is measur

Post to blog : Smartphonography Club : Ancient Social Network: The Lost Child Pillar
#Xiaomi #Xiaomi15TPro #smartphonography #photography #streetphotography #Tokyo #Japan #TokyoHistory #EdoPeriod #UrbanArchaeology #LostAndFound #JapaneseHeritage #Nihonbashi #HistoricalMonuments

https://www.smartphonography.club/2026/03/ancient-social-network-the-lost-child-pillar/

Was the Shimabara Rebellion a peasant uprising or a Christian holy war? This month’s Living Past revisits a brutal reckoning that still echoes through Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/history/christianity-japanese-history-massacre/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries

Missionaries brought Christianity to Japan in the mid-1500s. Less than a century later, tens of thousands were slaughtered in a conflict between the shogunate and the devout. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/japan/history/edo-period-christianity-revolt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries

Bamboo in Fine Weather after Rain showcases Taiga's innovative approach amidst the cultural revival of the Edo period. The interplay of bold bamboo and delicate landscapes invites contemplation. How does this fusion of tradition and creativity resonate with contemporary art?
#ClevelandArt #EdoPeriod #Taiga #ArtAppreciation
https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.337

Edo's warrior class and its martial virtues were redundant but lived on — overshadowed, however, if not overwhelmed, by the pursuit of pleasure, the embrace of frivolity, the slaking of lust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/29/japan/history/edo-japan-moral-ambiguity/ #japan #history #edoperiod #relationships #chushingura #samurai

Title: Suidobashi and Surugadai (1857)

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige

https://sugoii-japan.com/koinobori-japanese-carp-streamers #Ukiyoe #Art #Hiroshige #Spring #ChildrensDay #Koinobori #EdoPeriod #Suidobashi #KandaRiver #MountFuji #Chiyoda #Tokyo #Japan

Life under the Tokugawa shogunate wasn't exactly freedom but neither was it constant war. The Japanese instead sated their bloodlust with theater. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/15/japan/history/chushingura-revenge-japan-history/ #japan #history #chushingura #fortysevenronin #edoperiod #theater