A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

Adjacent to the pool is a sauna executed in a rustic style, alluding to both Finnish and Japanese precedents.

Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

In the written style known as kanbun, which is the Japanese approximation of Classical Chinese, small marks called kunten are sometimes added as reading aids.

Japanese hardcore, particularly GISM, is also mentioned by a number of originators of the style.

In Japan, hearses, called " reikyusha " ( 霊柩車 ), can come in two styles: " Foreign " style, which is similar in build and style to an American hearse, or a " Japanese " style, in which the rear area of the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple.

" Foreign " style hearses are mostly similar in appearance to their US counterparts, although their exterior dimensions and interiors reflect the Japanese preference for smaller, less ornate caskets ( this in light of the national preference for cremation ).

image: Tomioka Tessai Two Divinities Dancing. jpg | Tomioka Tessai, ( 1837 – 1924 ), Nihonga style, Two Divinities Dancing, 1924, Japanese

Ogura Yuki, ( 1895 – 2000 ), Bathing Women, Nihonga style, 1938, Japanese

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

Donburi, a combo of an entrée on a big bowl of rice, is another familiar category of dishes, but in Japan these are standard fare served at the shokudō or " Japanese style cafeteria / cheap restaurant ".

Breakfast at a ryokan ( Japanese inn ), featuring grilled mackerel, Kansai style dashimaki egg, tofu in kaminabe ( paper pot )

Japanese style traditionally abhors different flavored dishes touching each other on a single plate, so different dishes are given their own individual plates as mentioned, or are partitioned using leaves, etc.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Modern Japanese style training emphasizes the psychological elements incorporated into a proper kokoro ( attitude ) such as perseverance, fearlessness, virtue, and leadership skills.

The French term Boxe pieds-poings ( literally " feet-fists-boxing ") is also used in the sense of " kickboxing " in the general meaning, including French boxing ( savate ) as well as American and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc.

The knee and elbow techniques in Japanese kickboxing, indicative of its Muay Thai heritage, are the main difference that separates this style from other kickboxing rules.

It was during the 8th century, however, that Chinese fashions came into style among the Japanese, and the overlapping collar became particularly women's fashion.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Kōshin ' etsu is an area of complex and high rugged mountains — often called the " roof of Japan "-- that include the Japanese Alps.

The roof of the hall displays statues of the Chinese phoenix, called hōō in Japanese.

The larger Japanese ships ' sides were higher than the turtle ships ' and thus, the spikes prevented boarders from jumping down onto the roof without risking impalement.

The artistic inspiration from Greek floral scrolls is found quite literally in the decoration of Japanese roof tiles, one of the only remaining element of wooden architecture throughout centuries.

One of the options for the Japanese Domestic Market ( JDM ) CR-X was a glass roof, a fixed glass panel which stretched from the top of the windshield to the top of the hatch opening.

Additionally, the city is known for its roof tile industry, produced since early times as Iwami gawara, or kawara Japanese roof tiles of Iwami.

The roof is the dominant feature of traditional Japanese architecture.

It was sometime during this period that the hidden roof, a uniquely Japanese solution to roof drainage problems, was adopted.

In the Japanese home market, the Accord was available with a full power package, heated mirrors ( optional ), a digital instrument cluster ( optional ), sun roof ( optional ), cruise control, and climate control ( which was also optional ).

The form of the building changed to a hybrid Japanese / neoclassical image by Seichi Fujimura in 1944, primarily through the addition of a tower and roof elements.

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Two digital terrestrial television receiving antenna on the roof, upper antenna facing Tokyo Tower and lower one to another: en: Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations | Local Television Stations in Kantō Plain of Japan until Tokyo Skytree operates.

Note the Japanese inspired eyelid dormers in the roof to each side of the entrance. Richardson pointedly claimed ability to create any type of structure a client wanted, insisting he could design anything " from a cathedral to a chicken coop.

Richardson incorporated Japanese concepts " in both sihouette and spatial concept ", including the karahafu (" excellent gable ", but generally poorly translated as " Chinese gable " despite its Japanese origin ), the eyelid dormer, and the wide hip roof with extended eaves, all shown by Morse.

Japanese buildings sometimes include oni-faced roof tiles called, which are thought to ward away bad luck, much like gargoyles in Western tradition.

Optional equipment available was air conditioning, metallic paint, Pirelli P7 tyres, a leather dashboard, leather headlining to the removable roof panel plus rear window surround, and a rear aerofoil ( standard on Japanese market models ).

Note the high roof element and the rocks representing a stream as in a traditional Japanese garden.

Finally, the artistic inspiration from Greek floral scrolls is found quite literally in the decoration of Japanese roof tiles, one of the only remaining elements of wooden architecture to have survived the centuries.

The Shōhondō was regarded as an important work of post-war Japanese architecture, noted for its vast unsupported roof span.

The Sengan-en ( Isoteien ) Japanese garden is just outside the city.

Traditional Japanese garden with koi

Unknown to the Japanese, he was also able to smuggle out germinative seeds of tea plants to the botanical garden in Batavia.

The Japanese garden by the Chokushi-MonBuilt for the Japan-British Exhibition ( 1910 ) and moved to Kew in 1911, the Chokushi-Mon ( 敕使門 ‘ Imperial Envoy's Gateway ’) is a four-fifths scale replica of the karamon ( gateway ) of the Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto.

It lies about west of the Pagoda and is surrounded by a reconstruction of a traditional Japanese garden.

* Japanese rock garden

A kaiyu-shiki or strolling Japanese garden

* Japanese garden

Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s.

Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the garden wall and are about to break into our house.

* The Parc Oriental de Maulévrier, the largest Japanese garden of France

Japanese garden selections were the first exotic clematises to reach European gardens, in the 18th century, long before the Chinese species were identified in their native haunts at the end of the 19th century.

The Clusius garden ( a reconstruction ), the 18th century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese Siebold Memorial Museum symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.

A Japanese garden is included with a 22, 000-gallon Koi pond.

* Shiojiri Garden, located in Merrifield Park, is a Japanese strolling garden that symbolizes the Sister-City relationship between Mishawaka, Indiana and Shiojiri City, Japan.

Peter Swift, a designer with experience of adapting Japanese garden design principles to the British environment and climate, conceived the garden as a place of quiet contemplation and meditation as well as a functional space complementary to the Gallery and its artistic activities.

* Serene Gardens – A destination garden center and Cafe / restaurant serving authentic Japanese cuisine and specializing in Japanese sukiya style gardens.

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, on Spokane's South Hill, has a duck pond, a central conservatory, Duncan Gardens, a classical European Renaissance style garden, and the Nishinomiya Japanese Garden designed by Nagao Sakurai.

The dolls are usually placed in front of a gold folding screen and placed beside green Japanese garden trees.

The family moved into a former Japanese officer's mansion in Pyongyang, with a garden and pool.

In exchange, Japanese craftsmen assembled a Japanese " Garden of Peace ," a replica of Marshal-General Tōgō's garden, at the National Museum of the Pacific War ( formerly known as The Nimitz Museum ) in Fredericksburg, Texas.