At the heart of Washoku is the concept of ichiju-sansai, a meal structure of one soup, three side dishes, and rice, designed ...

Visitors from all over the world stroll among these ephemeral works of art, illuminated at nightfall in the heart of the Japanese winter. Gion Matsuri, Kyoto: a thousand-year-old tradition and the ...

The idea of winter bathing, of soaking in warm steaming pools or plunging ... In particular, it was the ritual of the Japanese onsen – whereby bathers soak in the thousands of curative geothermal ...