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According to ancient texts (Nihonshoki and Kojiki), Yagi has a significant place in Japan's history.The first emperor, Emperor Jimmu, journeyed from Miyazaki Prefecture to Kashihara, making his way through the Yoshino mountains and eventually choosing the east side of Mount Unebi (2 kilometres from central Yagi) for his palace site.
Though Yagi still lived and worked with his father in the Gojozaka in close contact with a whole community of traditional vessel potters, Yagi began bending and warping his wheel thrown forms and glazing them with designs that resembled paintings by Picasso, Klee and Miro. The work of these European modernists had been well known among Japanese ...
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 ...
Yakami Castle (八上城, Yakami-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tamba-Sasayama Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005. [1] The castle was one of the largest in Tanba Province, along with Kuroi Castle and Yagi Castle. It was the original ...
Jūkichi Yagi (八木 重吉, Yagi Jūkichi, 9 February 1898 – 26 October 1927) was a Japanese poet active in the late Taishō period and for the first few years of the Shōwa period, who focused on modern religious themes.
Shoku Nihon Kōki (続日本後紀) is an officially commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 869, it is the fourth volume in the Six National Histories . It covers the years 833–850.
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