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Hakuba Village view from Happo-one Hakuba Village Hall. Hakuba (白馬村, Hakuba-mura) is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of April 1, 2019, the village had an estimated population of 9,007 in 4267 households, [1] and a population density of 48 persons per km 2. The total area of the village is 189.36 square kilometres (73.11 ...
The Hakuba-kai (白馬会) or "White Horse Society" was a fluid late Meiji association of Japanese practitioners of yōga or Western-style painting. Established in June 1896, thirteen exhibitions were staged before the Society was disbanded in 1911 (the missing years being 1906, 1908, and 1911).
Hakka culture stemmed from the culture of Ancient Han Chinese, who migrated from China's central plain to what is modern day's Southern China during the 6th to 13th century, and intermixed with local non-Han Hmong–Mien speaking ethnic groups such as the Yao people, the She people, and the Miao people. [1]
He was also one of the founding members of "Hakuba-kai" (White Horse Society); [1] a loosely organized artists' association, supposedly named after their favorite type of sake. Later, the Ministry of Culture awarded him a stipend to study in France, where he worked with Raphaël Collin. [2] When he returned in 1902, he was named a full professor.
The painting was first exhibited at the Seventh Hakuba-kai ("White Horse Society") Exhibition, held in September and October 1902 in Ueno Park, in one of the halls from the 1877 inaugural National Industrial Exhibition. There it appeared under the name Reminiscences of the Tempyō Period (天平時代の面影). [3]
Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
A Cultural Landscape (文化的景観, bunkateki keikan) is a landscape in Japan, which has evolved together with the way of life and geocultural features of a region, and which is indispensable for understanding the lifestyle of the Japanese people, and is recognized by the government of under article 2, paragraph 1, item 5 of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (1950).
ABC's "The View" was home to several contentious moments and prominent Democratic interviews in 2024, including a key moment of VP Kamala Harris' campaign.