From a traditional Japanese village to the music capital of Ireland, these small towns have all the beauty and charm you ...

Preserved as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the quiet Japanese villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayamaare a beautiful example of the gasshō-zukuri, or “prayer-hands construction,” historic ...

In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama ... The houses overlook watered rice fields ...

SOLAS – Debra Bowden The Berkeley Gallery, Mill Street, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny Until August 19th thomastowncommunitynetwork.com The primordial Japanese ... of the “model village” of Sion ...

For example, during the Heian Period (794-1185), beautiful women were often depicted on picture scrolls, and in the Edo Period (1603-1867) they were seen in ukiyo-e (Japanese-genre paintings and ...