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The Yagibushi (Japanese: 八木節, meaning song of yagi [1]) is a popular folk song and dance performed at matsuri (and occasionally Undokai sports days) in Gunma and Tochigi, Japan. It consists of dancers with broad hats called kasa going in a counter clockwise circle around a mikoshi. The dance is very energetic and ends with everyone ...
The Yamato-Yagi Station is a large Kintetsu train station serving Yagi, with express lines to downtown Osaka (40 minutes), Kyoto (1 hour) and Nara city (20 minutes). A large percentage of Yagi's population work in these neighboring cities. Yagi has a considerable foreign population made up of English language teachers and Peruvian factory workers.
Yagi Castle (八木城, Yagi-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the Yōka neighborhood of the city of Yabu, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1997. [ 1 ]
Yagi is easily accessible via the JR Sagano Train Line from Kyoto. Yagi has a long history dating back at least as far as the Nara Period, when Yagi's extant Sanin Road was a main route through the prefecture, linking Kyoto to Kameoka and Sonobe. In 1960 Yagi and the surrounding area was hit by a massive typhoon. The banks of the Ōi River ...
Ichikawa now goes on the offensive by targeting Akagi directly, proposing a Zetsu Nimon—the two discard pin and sou tiles. Akagi loses the round but avoids losing the match. In the following round, even with a poor start hand Akagi confuses the opponents by discarding unexpected tiles, making them believe he has a good hand.
Behind "The Cove": The Quiet Japanese Speak Out (Japanese: ビハインド・ザ・コーヴ 〜捕鯨問題の謎に迫る〜, Hepburn: bihaindo za kōvu 〜hogeimondai no nazo ni semaru〜) is a 2015 Japanese documentary film directed and produced by Keiko Yagi.
Yagi-nishiguchi Station, in Kashihara, Nara, Japan Kami-Yagi Station , a JR-West Kabe Line station located in 3-chōme, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan Rikutyū-Yagi Station , a railway station on the East Japan Railway Company Hachinohe Line located in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. "Yagi Kazuo: The Admission of the Nonfunctional Object into the Japanese Pottery World". Journal of Design History Vol. 12 No. 2 (1999): 123-141. Cort, Louise Allison. "Japanese Encounters with Clay." In Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth, 103-191. Edited by Louise Allison Cort and ...