Tag: Cultural history

This exquisitely beautiful structure called Yomei-mon is accounted the finest of its kind in all Japan.

Landscape gardening in Japan.

LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Flowers and Gardens of Japan by Florence Du Cane

The Imperial Garden of the Hama Residence is a park in the Chūō district of Tokyo, Japan.

Chivalry and Its Results. Chapter IX. Civilisation and Womanhood by Harriet Bowker Bradbury

SHINOBAZU-NO-IKE. This is a large lotus-lake situated just below the elevated ground now
occupied by the Uyeno Park

This is Renée de Lorraine, daughter of the Duke of Lorraine François I” and Christine of Danemarck.

Marguerite de France was the fourth daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany

Henri III’s favourites put on make-up and powder, wore earrings, lace and tinsel.

The Japanese tea ceremony also known as the tea ritual, is close to Zen in its underlying philosophy.

Robin Hood was born at Locksley, in the county of Nottingham, in the reign of King Henry II, and about the year of Christ 1160.