Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data
A print of Lake Suwa from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Corbis Almost every winter, after Lake Suwa in the Japanese Alps freezes, the male Shinto god Takeminakata crosses the ice to visit the female god Yasakatome at her shrine, causing a ridge known as the omiwatari to form. At least, that’s what the priests living on the shores of the lake believed. When the water froze, they would
How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better
Kamakura Shirts owner Yoshio Sadasue opened a New York store on Madison Avenue. Raymond Patrick A couple of years ago I found myself in a basement bar in Yoyogi, a central precinct of Tokyo, drinking cold Sapporo beers with big foamy heads while the salarymen next to me raised their glasses to a TV displaying a fuzzy, obviously bootlegged video of an old Bob Dylan concert. The name of the bar, My
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