A torii is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
Ena is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 48,777, and a population density of 96.7 persons per km², in 19,820 households. The total area of the city was 504.24 square kilometres (194.69 sq mi).
Kasagi is a town located in Sōraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Minamiyamashiro is a village located in Sōraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Nozomu Kasagi is a Japanese film director. He started creating independent films while he was a student at Sophia University in Tokyo. His early work was screened at various film festivals, including the Akiruno Film Festival, the Sotsuseisai, Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival, the Tsutaya Indies Movie Festival, Planet Film Festival, and Mito Short Film Festival. In 2002, he made his debut as a film director with “Swan's Song,” which was based on SATO Sakichi’s screenplay. He has since been active in various genres, directing: TV drama series, such as “Ganso: Shonan-wara-yane Monogatari” [lit. The Original Shonan Tiled Roof Stories], starring TERAJIMA Susumu and TSUDA Kanji; music videos for artists such as HAYASHIBARA Megumi and Seikima-II; stage plays, such as his modern version of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” starring ASANO Tadanobu and AIKAWA Sho; and films, such as “Tokyo Real” based on the Shueisha Publishing Company's bestselling cell phone novel. In 2019, he directed the drama comedy film “Bullet Trip,” bringing home a Special Jury Award and Japan's first ever Best Foreign Language Film Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.
The Unryū-class aircraft carriers were World War II Japanese aircraft carriers. Sixteen ships of the class were planned under the Maru Kyū Programme and the Kai-Maru 5 Programme. However, only three of the Unryū-class carriers were completed.
Kasagi (笠置) was the lead ship in the Kasagi-class protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessel was the sister ship to the Chitose. She was named after Mount Kasagi, a holy mountain outside Kyoto.
Chitose (千歳) was a Kasagi-class protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was the sister ship to Kasagi.
The Genkō War, also known as the Genkō Incident, was a civil war fought in Japan between the Emperor Go-Daigo and the Kamakura Shogunate from 1331 to 1333. The Genkō War was named after Genkō, the Japanese era corresponding to the period of 1331 to 1334 when the war occurred.
The 1331 siege of Kasagi was among the first battles of the Genkō War, which brought an end to Japan's Kamakura period. Emperor Go-Daigo, who had been plotting against the shogunate and the Hōjō clan regents, had hidden the Japanese imperial regalia in Kasagi-dera, a fortified Buddhist temple, atop Kasagiyama, just outside Kyoto, and was secretly raising an army from there.
Shizuko Kasagi was a popular Japanese jazz singer and actress. At the peak of her fame in the immediate post-war era, she was known as the "Queen of the Boogie-Woogie".
Kasagi Station is a train station of West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) in Kasagi, Kyoto, Japan. The station is outside of the ICOCA service area, so no IC cards can be used to pay fares.
Kasagi Dam is a dam in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan. Construction of the dam was completed by 1936. Its height is 40.8m and its maximum power output is 41,700 kW.
Kasagiyama Prefectural Natural Park is a Prefectural Natural Park in the south of Kyōto Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1964, the park is within the municipality of Kasagi. Mount Kasagi, associated with Emperor Go-Daigo and events chronicled in the Taiheiki, is a designated Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty.
The Kasagi-class cruiser was a class of two protected cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the United States at the end of the 19th century.
Kanjo Nawa is a Japanese custom of stretching shimenawa, a variety of laid rope, with fetishes hung at the border of a village. Michi Kiri (道切り) is just a similar custom. The term Kanjo Nawa also refers to the rope itself.
Satoomi Kasagi is a Japanese rower. He competed in the men's single sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
At least two warships of Japan have borne the name Kasagi:
