Tag: japan
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Where the Light Settles
Along the Nakasendo, at its seventh post town, lies Konosu – once a shogunate landholding directly administered by the Tokugawa government and today part of Saitama Prefecture. Not far off, the Arakawa River completed a deliberate, slow, and profound westward shift. Over centuries the river, more or less as people in successive eras intended, nourished…
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Hakushu | A Whisky Distillery in the Heart of the Forest
Many of the peaks retain their snow caps, or are streaked with snow, until the early autumn, while in some of the recesses and gorges where it is partially screened from the sun’s rays, the snow never entirely disappears. During the Meiji era, British mining engineer William Gowland—employed by the Osaka Mint—explored the Etchu and…
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