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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 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 ...
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 ]
Yamato-Yagi Station (大和八木駅, Yamato-Yagi-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company, Kintetsu Railway. [1] It is the only Kintetsu station with an intersection that is not served by other railways.
Yagi Station opened on 15 August 1899. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company. Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Yagi being assigned station number JR-E14.
Kyūgo Yagi: 6 April 1945* Yūji Yamamoto: 7 April 1945* Shirō Hayashi: 7 April 1945* Hisao Kotaki: 7 April 1945* Shin'ichi Uchino: 7 April 1945* Yoshio Kawashima: 9 April 1945* Eitarō Ankyū: 12 April 1945* Yasushi Kawano: 12 April 1945* Akira Ikeda: 14 April 1945* Yoshio Yamamoto: 1 May 1945 Jitsue Akishige: 1 May 1945 Seiho Arima: 1 May ...
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 ...