Life was not kind to Julia Otaa, a Korean woman who was brought to Japan by a Christian “daimyo” (feudal lord) during the invasions of the Korean Peninsula by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598).
You could argue that much of what exists in Japan today is there, at least in part, thanks to Tokugawa Ieyasu. The founder of the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan for more than 250 years, Ieyasu brought an end to centuries of civil war and ushered in a period of peace…
Completed in 2021 in Shizuoka, Japan. Images by Akinobu Kawabe. The plan is to build a private residence in a residential area in the district leading to Sunpu Castle in the center of Shizuoka City. A stream used.