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...This is a comeback story with an excruciatingly long prologue, however. In the late 16th century, the area was home to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the country's greatest shogun. But Ieyasu abandoned it in 1603 when he established his new capital in what is now Tokyo. Overshadowed not just by Tokyo to its east, but also by Osaka to its west, Nagoya languished, developing a reputation as a backwater among many Japanese (and a complete cipher to most foreigners) despite being Japan's fourth largest city. When a new generation of bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka was introduced...
...world began to float in 1603, when Tokugawa Ieyasu vanquished his rivals to become shogun of Japan, ushering in more than two centuries of peace, prosperity and rigid social stratification. Lowest of the official classes were the merchants?lower even than farmers and artisans, who at least produced something. That was fine with the merchants. They were getting rich. Besides, a new world was being created for them, one that offered more interesting diversions than political power...
Many onsen towns are worth exploring for their historic charm. In Kinugawa, visitors can ride old-fashioned wooden boats down the river rapids. In nearby Nikko, the magnificent 17th century Toshogu temple compound attests to the power of Ieyasu Tokugawa, the real-life inspiration for the title character of James Clavell's novel Shogun. From Kamisuwa, hikers and skiers venture to the surrounding mountains, while summer vacationers play on the lake...
...certain how Koetsu managed to find a place within this society as one of its principal tastemakers--as, in a sense, its artistic director. The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...
...certain how Koetsu managed to find a place within this society as one of its principal tastemakers - as, in a sense, its artistic director. The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...