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This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
San'ya (山谷, San'ya) is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori.A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
The chawan originated in China. The earliest chawan in Japan were imported from China between the 13th and the 16th centuries. [1] The Jian chawan, a Chinese tea bowl known as Tenmoku chawan in Japan, was the preferred tea bowl for the Japanese tea ceremony until the 16th century. [2]
Some of the typical vessel (器 utsuwa) types are: . tea bowl (茶碗 chawan); jar (壷 tsuba); bowl (鉢 hachi); tea caddy (茶入 chaire); The various features of a vessel such as the opening, rim, neck, wall, inside, foot, surface markings, etc. all have standardised names in Japanese.
Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...
Tenmoku takes its name from the Tianmu Mountain (天目 Mandarin: tiān mù; Japanese: ten moku; English: Heaven's Eye) temple in China where iron-glazed bowls were used for tea. [3] The style became widely popular during the Song dynasty. In Chinese it is called Jian Zhan (建盏), [4] which means "Jian (tea)cup". [5] [6]
Don Johnson is basking in all the family love this holiday season.. The Hollywood actor, best known for his role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the '80s TV series "Miami Vice," is celebrating ...
Crossroads (十字路, Jūjiro), also known as Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese drama film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. [1] [2] [3] It is believed to be the first [4] or one of the first [5] [6] Japanese films to be screened in Europe, and often mentioned in conjunction with Kinugasa's other avant-garde film, the two years earlier A Page of ...