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Samurai Secrets: Three True Stories of Aizome (Indigo Dyeing)
On March 2, 1657, bystanders on the hills west of Edo (present-day Tokyo) were looking down on a city ablaze in a massive ring of fire. It was another display of "the flowers of Edo", as the fires ...
The Fascinating History of Aizome
Japanese ukiyo-e maestro Hiroshige's woodblock print, Wakamurasaki, shows a young Prince Genji getting a first glimpse of lady Murasaki in an illustration from Murasaki Shikibu's, The Tale of Genji...