Shinkansen: (Japanese: 新幹線;lit.
'new trunk line'),is a network of high-speed
railway lines in Japan,initially built to connect distant Japanese regions with
Tokyo.From Tokaido Shinkansen (515.4 km) in 1964,the network has expanded to
2,951.3 km of lines with maximum speeds of 260–320 km/h.maximum operating speed is
320 km/h (on a 387.5 km section of the Tōhoku Shinkansen.World record 603 km/h
(375 mph) for SCMaglev trains in April 2015
Kinkaku-ji: (金閣寺;lit. 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion'), officially Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺;
lit. 'Deer Garden Temple')a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto,dates to 1397, when the
villa was purchased from the Saionji family by shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and
transformed into the Kinkaku-ji,later it was converted into a Zen temple.
Kitagawa Utamaro:(喜多川 歌麿; circa 1753- 31 October 1806)highly regarded for ukiyo-e
woodblock prints and paintings, for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of
beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly
illustrated books of insects.
Kabuki Play:Japanese Theatre (歌舞伎; , mixing dramatic performance with traditional
dance,its glamorous, highly decorated costumes, and for the elaborate kumadori
make-up worn by some of its performers.originated in the early Edo period,
when ,Izumo no Okuni, formed a female dance troupe that performed dances and light
sketches in Kyoto.
Enoshima Shrine:(江島神社), a Shinto shrine in Enoshima, Fujisawa, Kanagawa,
Japan.dedicated worship of the kami Benten,Enoshima-jinja comprises three shrines,
He-tsu-miya, Naka-tsu-miya and Oku-tsu-miya.
Nara Park(Japanese: 奈良公園)a public park in Nara, Japan at the foot of Mount
Wakakusa( Est. in 1880), it is one of the oldest parks in Japan, official size of
the park is about 502 hectares, wild animals that inhabit the park include sika
deer, wild boar, Japanese raccoon dogs, Japanese giant flying squirrels and
Japanese squirrels, among others. The vegetation consists of pine trees, cherry
blossom trees, maple trees, plum trees, Japanese cedar and Japanese piers.
Mount Fuji: (富士山・富士の山, Fujisan, Fuji no Yama) is an active stratovolcano in Honshu,
with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m highest mountain in Japan,it last erupted
from 1707 to 1708. one of "Three Holy Mountains" (三霊山, Sanreizan) with Mount Tate
and Mount Haku.
Japan: An island country in East Asia.in Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of
the Asian mainland, bordered by the Sea of Japan(West) extends from the Sea of
Okhotsk(North) to East China Sea(South). The archipelago consists of four major
islands (14,121 smaller ones) covering 377,975 Km^2. Divided into 47 prefectures
and eight traditional regions, about 75% of the country's terrain is mountainous
and heavily forested,agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern
coastal plains,having a population of over 123 million as of 2025,(11th most
populous country). The country's capital and largest city is Tokyo.
(kanji) were used to write either words borrowed from Chinese, or Japanese words
with the same or similar meanings. Chinese characters were also used to write
grammatical elements; these were simplified, and eventually became two moraic
scripts: hiragana and katakana which were developed based on Man'yōgana.
Hiragana:They are used for words without kanji representation, for words no longer
written in kanji, for replacement of rare kanji that may be unfamiliar to intended
readers, and also following kanji to show conjugational endings. Because of the way
verbs (and adjectives) in Japanese are conjugated, kanji alone cannot fully convey
Japanese tense and mood, as kanji cannot be subject to variation when written
without losing their meaning.
Katakana: katakana syllabary usage is comparable to italics in English;
specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign-language words into Japanese
and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo); for emphasis; to represent
onomatopoeia; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals,
minerals and often Japanese companies.
Himeji Castle (姫路城, Himeji-jō] ) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in
Himeji,Hyōgo Prefecture.It is regarded as the finest surviving example of
prototypical Japanese castle architecture,alsoknown as Hakuro-jō or Shirasagi-jō
("White Egret Castle" or "White Heron Castle") due to its brilliant white exterior
and resemblance to a bird taking flight(Est.1333). Akamatsu Norimura built a fort
on top of Himeyama hill,dismantled and rebuilt as Himeyama Castle in 1346 and then
remodeled into Himeji Castle two centuries later(in 1581) by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a
three-story castle keep. In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu awarded it to Ikeda Terumasa for
help in the Battle of Sekigahara, and he completely rebuilt the castle from 1601 to
1609.
