#meijiera — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meijiera, aggregated by home.social.
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For over a century, Japan's newest luxury lodging didn't welcome guests — it confined convicts. Now, the Hoshinoya Nara Prison hotel and adjacent museum offer a quiet reflection on incarceration, freedom and hope. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/08/08/travel/hoshinoya-nara-prison-hotel-meiji-period-architecture-travel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #hotels #nara #finedining #japaneseprisons #meijiera
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Why There’s an 11-Meter Goddess Inside This Tokyo Department Store
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/mitsukoshi-tennyo-statue-sato-gengen/
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[Insider] Urine Nation: Japan’s 150-Years-Long War Against Peeing in Public
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-outlawed-public-urination/
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Kanji Forever? Why Japan Still Uses Chinese Characters, But Korea Mostly Doesn’t
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-kanji-korea-hanja-abolition/
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🚂✨ OMG, ANOTHER MAP ANIMATION! Watch as 9,300 Japanese train stations bloom like cherry blossoms in a virtual time-lapse of railway "innovation." Because who doesn't want to spend their day watching dots pop up on a screen while pretending to be a train enthusiast from the Meiji era? 😅🎌
https://jivx.com/eki #trainanimation #cherryblossoms #railwayinnovation #MeijiEra #JapanHacks #virtualtimelapse #HackerNews #ngated -
From 17th-century merchants to Meiji fiction, the humble umbrella traces commerce, belief and loneliness across Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/06/japan/history/umbrella-japanese-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #meijiera #thetaleofgenji #umbrellas #mitsui
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Hand-colored photo of a newsman, Meiji-era Japan, 1870s
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Why Netflix’s ‘Last Samurai Standing’ Returns for Season 2
Netflix announced the renewal of the Japanese period action series Last Samurai Standing. The streaming giant gave the green light for a second season after the show topped its global charts. Fans now know that the story will continue to unfold in the Meiji era....
#ActionDrama #Ikusagami #Japaneseseries #LastSamuraiStanding #Meijiera #netflix #Season2renewal
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An entrepreneur and local art patron built what is now the Nikko Kanaya Hotel over 150 years ago, making it the oldest Western resort hotel in Japan. Today it stands as the epitome of the culture-blending artistic and architectural tradition of its day. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/07/10/art/nikko-kanaya-hotel-art/ #culture #art #nikkokanayahotel #nikko #tochigiprefecture #meijiera
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Two Buddhist monks, Ryokan and Santoka, separated by decades but both with a knack for expressing their chosen paths in prose. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/14/japan/history/ryokan-santoka-zen-monks-history/ #japan #history #zen #buddhism #ryokan #santokataneda #meijiera #poetry
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Kano Hōgai - Two Dragons (in Clouds), ink on paper, c. 1885 #KanoHogai #Kano Hōgai #dragon #dragons #art #Japaneseart #Kanōschool #Japan #Meijiera