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Kawachi Wisteria Garden in 2015. Kawachi Wisteria Garden (Japanese: 河内藤園 Kawachi fujien) [1] is a private garden located in Kitakyushu founded by Higuchi Masao. [2] The garden contains over 20 kinds of wisterias in a 10,000m 2 area. [3]
Construction of Kokura Castle began in 1602 and was completed in 1608. It was the property of the Ogasawara clan (from Harima) between 1632 and 1860.. The castle burnt down from a fire in 1837, with parts of it rebuilt in 1839. [1]
Kyushu has a land area of 36,782 square kilometres (14,202 sq mi) and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018. [ 5 ] In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region.
Constructing Buddha statues out of stone is widely practiced in Buddhist areas in Asia. These images can be divided into three broad types: Magaibutsu (磨崖仏, literally "polished-cliff Buddha"), bas-relief images carved directly into a cliff face, movable independent stone Buddhas carved from cut stone, and Buddhas carved inside rock caves, The Usuki images can be classed as Magaibutsu.
Amakusa islands at Yatsushiro Sea, in Japan. The largest island (left) is Shimoshima. View of Amakusa islands (with Yushima, Kami-Amakusa in foreground). Ōe Catholic Church. Amakusa (天草), which means "Heaven's Grass," is a series of islands off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
Unlike most museums in Japan, which contract out conservation work, the Kyushu National Museum has an extensive on-site suite of conservation labs and associated staff, serving as the major conservation center for all of western Japan. [3] The museum was designed by Kiyonori Kikutake. [4]
Some animals, such as lions, need beautiful, full manes to attract females. Others, like the bower bird, build elaborate nests , and the peacock spider performs a showy dance to attract its mate.
Aso-Kujū National Park (阿蘇くじゅう国立公園, Aso-Kujū Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in Kumamoto and Ōita Prefectures, Japan. The park derives its name from Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan, and the Kujū mountains. [1] [2] Mount Aso is also one of the largest caldera volcanos in the world. [3]