Washing took off in the Edo period, which began at the start of the 17th century.
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Other campaigns he supports include the long-running protest against Brighton arms manufacturer EDO MBM Technology.
The story itself melds the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood with Japanese folklore from the Edo era.
It is during the Tokugawa era - known as Edo - when official documents make brief references to ninjas' activities.
So like the EDO MBM plant, Malmo's Jews deserve to be attacked.
And, once every other year, they staged lavish processions to and from the capital of Edo (today's Tokyo) where the shogun the emperor's generalissimo resided.
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In 1858, the Treaty of Edo was signed which provided for the opening up of Japan to British trade and set up British residency.
Much the same criticism can be leveled at the new Edo-Tokyo Museum (Kikutake Kiyonori, 1992), built by the city to showcase its 500-year history.
During the Edo Period (1615-1863), when Japan cut itself off from the wider world, only Chinese and Dutch traders were allowed into the country.
The origins of today's geisha (geiko and maiko) can be traced back to the Edo Period (1600-1868), although they became most popular during the Taisho Period (1912-1926).
Two segments of a late Edo Period scroll now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin show bewigged Dutchmen smoking, playing billiards and tending their vegetable patch.
Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople.
Depending on whom you believe, the first commercial baths or sento (penny baths) were opened either in 1590 in Osaka or 1591 in Edo (now Tokyo).
ECONOMIST: The Japanese are a super-clean lot. Obsessively so?
Known as Prince Mutsuhito until he acceded to the throne in 1867, he was responsible for moving the capital from Kyoto to Edo, which he renamed Tokyo.
In a news release, the organisers said the event brought together local groups including Brighton Anarchist Black Cross, Smash EDO, Squatter Networks of Brighton and Brighton Hunt Saboteurs.
Japanese culture and society in many ways reached its zenith in the Edo period and there is much that present day Japanese and foreign can gain from observing and studying the period and its people.
In the Edo period, when the vast majority of the objects on display were made, the samurai evolved from hired archers and swordsmen to an elite class of warriors respected for their military skills, education and refinement.
WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence
The jury found the five innocent because the jurors accepted as a valid defense the defendants' claim that they vandalized the EDO MBM plant because they wanted to prevent Israel from carrying out war crimes in Gaza.
Equally if not more important has been a change in plot, from the traditional martial violence, simple noble samurai defeating evildoers themes, to more character-driven and sympathetic themes, including love stories or stories of daily life conflict within the social constraints of the Edo period.
At the end of the lane, a right turn will bring you to the low entrance of a place where you can learn to make green tea, and to the Edo-period cottage built by a poet in memory of the haiku master Basho, who cherished the area because his teacher once lived here.
Grating turns the yam to a pulp of unbelievable stickiness. (Wikipedia claims that it was used as a sexual lubricant in the Edo period a fact too good to check.) The soba end up bound so firmly together that pulling a few strands with chopsticks lifts the whole mass off the plate.
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