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Tōkyō, Japan, 2016

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Tōkaidō, historic road that connected Ōsaka and Kyōto with Edo (now Tokyo) in Japan. The Tōkaidō was about 515 km (320 miles) long and ran mostly along the Pacific (i.e., southern) coast of the island of Honshu. From ancient times the road was the chief route from the capital city of Kyōto eastward to central Honshu. The Tōkaidō became even more important during the Tokugawa (Edo) period (1603–1867), since it connected Edo, the capital city of the Tokugawa shogunate, with western Honshu.

Along the Tōkaidō were 53 post-station towns whose inns and vendors provided lodging, refreshment, and gifts for the road’s travelers. The road was well known for its picturesque views, which were recorded by the artist Hiroshige in a series of woodblock prints entitled The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–34). During the Tokugawa period the Tōkaidō is recorded as having a smooth well-kept roadbed that averaged 5.5 metres (18 feet) in width. This roadbed consisted of a deep layer of crushed gravel overlaid with sand and was paved with stone on mountain slopes. Wheeled vehicles were rare on the Tōkaidō, which was used chiefly by pedestrians, packhorses, and palanquins carried by bearers. The route of the Tōkaidō is now followed by a national highway and two important rail lines, one being a line of the high-speed Shinkansen.

Numazu (No. 13 from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokkaido), Hiroshige, between 1847 and 1852

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Martial arts was certainly expected of the men in samurai families, but women drawn from those families to the shogun's Inner Palace would also be familiar with handling weapons. During the Edo Period, use of the halberd / naginata was particularly associated with samurai women, used for self-defense and physical fitness training. The light-weight wooden shaft, about 6-8 feet / 2-3 shaku was surmounted by a steel blade, although a wooden blade could be substituted for practice purposes, just as wooden swords / bokken (shown here) were used for training by men and women.

Chikanobu Yoshu, Naginata practice, from the Chiyoda Inner Palace series, 1896 (via).

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Films Watched in 2024: 64. ゴジラ×モスラ×メカゴジラ／東京SOS/Gojira, Mosura, Mekagojira: Tōkyō Esu Ō Esu/Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S (2003) - Dir. Masaaki Tezuka

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Tōkyō no onna (Ozu Yasujirō, 1933)

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Komagome, Tōkyō, Japan, 2016

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Happy Monday, friends!

Today is the FINAL POLL until my Read & Review Shoujo Spree YouTube event officially kicks off in TWO WEEKS!

I am SO excited, but I thought for this last poll I would change it up a little bit! 🤭

Neither one of these titles were in the event last year, but I would LOVE for a magical girl manga to be in the running this time around! 🤩

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The art of Japanese woodblock prints continued into the 20th century. This is one of Hasui's urban landscapes, with soft evening colors spreading over the city.

The Kiba district of Tōkyō/Edo near the Sumida River had been a lumberyard from the 1600's until the 1970's ("Kiba" means "place of wood"). It consisted of canals that led to the river, and narrow streets with bridges to cross the waterways. The rafts of wood seen in this image would have been transported from the provinces to the lumberyard district via connected waterways to supply the city's many wooden structures.

Evening at the Lumber Yards of Kiba (from the series Twelve Scenes of Tokyo), Hasui Kawase, 1920

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