November 2024

Why was Puyi given special protection? After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the privileges of the imperial family and aristocracy during the Qing Dynasty were supposed to have been completely denied, restoration of honor and special protection were given to Emperor Puyi and the mellow imperial family. Why is that? Sun Yat-sen’s “Republic of the Five Tribes” In the early stages, the revolutionaries adopted an extreme Manchurianism that regarded the entire Manchu tribe as the enemy and…

Rikugien Rikugien is a garden in Kita-ku, Tokyo that is considered a masterpiece of the Edo period in Japan. Its name comes from The Six Elements of Poetry, a description of the classification of poems and their techniques of expression derived from the Chinese Shijing. It is not, however, a Chinese garden. The garden was created by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who has reflected scenes from ancient Japanese waka poems in his garden. We hope that visitors to the garden will be…