8 Sep 2021 5:47 pm
https://www.butterfield.com/get-inspire ... n-of-japanVegasgiants » 08 Sep 2021, 5:42 pm » wrote: ↑ This I have to hear. Its priceless. Please say it was when their culture was samurai based. Lol
While Sakoku, Japan’s long period of isolation from 1639 to 1853, kept it closed off from much of the world, one upshot was the rise of cultural touchstones that persist to this day. (Though admittedly, this knowledge would likely have done little to console the lower classes, who lived difficult lives.)
A quintessential scene from the streets of JapanSo many of the things we still associate with Japan—such as haiku poetry, kabuki drama, wood-block prints, the tea ceremony, landscape gardening and the cultivation of bonsai trees—date to this period of Japan.