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Pearl Diving in Japan is carried out by a group of women known as Ama or to us Diving Women. Their jobs consisted of catching seafood to sell, but over time these women had grown famous for collecting pearls from the ocean as well.
We continue today the tale of Mineko, as she comes ever closer to becoming a fully fledged Geisha. But it is not going to be an easy time for her...
Our story now looks into the life of the woman called. Mineko Iwasaki, a woman who was actually interviewed for the book Memoirs of a Geisha...
Today we finally delve into the life of Higuchi Ichiyo, the woman you can see on the 5000円 note. Ichiyo was born on May 2, 1872. Her name at birth was Natsu, although she also...
Our first episode during Womens History Month so I wanted to do an episode on 3 women I have come across in my time making the website and they are women we do not know the names of. I want to talk about the few things we know of their lives and also show the works they are known for.
Long, long ago there lived an old man and his wife who supported themselves by cultivating a small plot of land. Their life had been a very happy and peaceful one save for one great sorrow…
Today we talk of an almost forgotten part of Japanese History. Japanese pantomime known as Gigaku…
Today a look into the sword which was known as the ‘zanbato.’ Was this sword real? Or is it merely the stuff of legend? Well lets look into that today…
It has been a pretty good month overall almost everything is new this month. With pages for the first few Emperors as well as their wives and children now finished.
We have been keeping the ball rolling since we hit 1000 pages last months. Alot of updates and a lot of new pages for the first time in a long while!
Here are our March 2022 Updates. Well we finally did it! We have hit over 1000 pages on the website! Heres to another productive year for the website and our podcast: Japan Archives.
Well this has been a good month for the website, we dug out a dusty journal we have had for a while that we once used when doing our Human Sacrifice episode. And so…
Since the last update we have concentrated on getting the Shinto mythologies all the way up to the birth of Ōkuninushi onto the website…
This past May we had a puch to get the Nihongi and Kojiki finished up to the end of Susano-o and his exploits in Heaven. So many updated Spirit pages for you all, and a decent amount of new Spirits for you to read about.
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