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En 1591, Hideyoshi desarrolló un rígido sistema de clases con diferentes niveles para guerrero ( shi ), agricultor (no ), artesano ( ko ) y comerciante ( sho ), el llamado sistema shi-no-ko-sho .
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Musashi's Dokkodo (The Way of Walking Alone): Half Crazy, Half Genius—Finding Modern Meaning in the Sword Saint’s Last Words
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Hideo Gosha's 'Samurai Wolf' Is a Man of His Sword
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Toshiyuki Kurosu in gakuran school uniform (left) and first suit jacket (right). (Courtesy of Toshiyuki Kurosu)
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The architectural composition of a traditional Japanese Noh theatre.
The stage is typically constructed from hinoki (Japanese cypress). Originally, noh was played in open fields. When a theatre is recreated inside a building, it’s designed complete with details such as a roof, bridge with a handrail and a pine tree... See more
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Swipe to hear Cottle share how he made his start in photography and unpack his seminal photo series ‘893 Yakuza: The Setting Sun’... See more
instagram.comfires in the Gosho might compel an emperor to take refuge at a temple elsewhere in Kyōto, but it is not much of an exaggeration to say that the successive emperors were prisoners of the state.