日本景點英文介紹

❶ 介紹日本風景的英語短文

富士山： Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12,388 ft). An active volcano that last erupted in 1707-08, it straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures just west of Tokyo, from which it can be seen on a clear day. It is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshū. Three small cities surround it: Gotemba (east), Fujiyoshida (north) and Fujinomiya (southwest).Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers.

❷ 日本京都英文介紹

Kyoto (京都 ,Kyōto) is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū(本州), Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. It is formerly the imperial capital of Japan.

Kyoto is located in the Yamashiro (or Kyoto) Basin, in the eastern part of the Tamba highlands. The Yamashiro Basin is surrounded on three sides by mountains which results in hot summers and cold winters.

With its 2000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, as well as palaces, gardens and architecture intact, Kyoto is one of the best preserved cities in Japan. It is also renowned for its Japanese foods and cuisine, especially a variety of vegetables. Additionally, Japan's television and film instry has its center in Kyoto.

Kyoto International Manga Museum is also situated in Kyoto. It has collected about 200,000 items of menga.

Tourism is the main base of Kyoto's economy. And the city is also the academic centers of the country. Kyoto University is considered to be one of the top universities in Japan.

❸ 求日本京都著名景點的英文介紹

Arashiyama（嵐山）
Arashiyama (嵐山 ?) is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. It also refers to the mountain across the Ōi River, which forms a backdrop to the district.

Notable tourist sites in Arashiyama include

The Iwatayama Monkey Park on the slopes of Mount Arashiyama. Over 170 monkeys live at the park. While the monkeys are wild, they have become accustomed to humans. The park is located on a small mountain not far from the Saga-Arashiyama rail station. Visitors can approach and photograph the monkeys. At the summit is a fenced enclosure, from within which visitors can feed the monkeys.
The romantic "Moon Crossing Bridge" (渡月橋,Togetsukyō), notable for its views of cherry blossoms and autumn colors on the slopes of Mt Arashiyama.
The tombstone of the Heike courtesan Kogo of Sagano.
Tenryū-ji, the main temple of the Rinzai school, one of the two main sects of Zen Buddhism in Japan.
The hamlet of Kiyotaki, a small scenic village at the base of Mt Atago, the home to a notable Shinto shrine.
Matsuo Shrine, half a mile south of the area, which is home to a blessed spring. It is also one of the oldest shrines in the Kyoto area, founded in 700. The alleged restorative properties of the spring bring many local sake and miso companies to the shrine for prayers that their proct will be blessed.
Kameyama koen has a stone commemorating Zhou Enlai's visited to Arashiyama. He was moved by the cherry blossoms and mountain greenery. The four poems Zhou Enlai wrote about his visit are engraved on a stone monument: "Arashiyama in the Rain."

Nijō Castle（二條城）
Nijō Castle (二條城 ,Nijō-jō?) is a flatland castle located in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area of the castle is 275,000 square meters, of which 8000 square meters is occupied by buildings.

History

Present plan of Nijō Castle (click for detailed view)In 1601, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, ordered all the feudal lords in Western Japan to contribute to the construction of Nijō Castle, which was completed ring the reign of Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1626. Parts of Fushimi Castle, such as the main tower and the Kara Gate, were moved here in 1625-26.[1] It was built as the Kyoto residence of the Tokugawa Shoguns. The Tokugawa Shogunate used Edo as the capital city, but Kyoto continued to be the home of the Imperial Court. Kyoto Imperial Palace is located north-east of Nijo Castle.

The central keep, or donjon, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in 1791.

In 1788, the Inner Palace was destroyed by a city-wide fire. The site remained empty until it was replaced by a prince's residence transferred from the Kyoto Imperial Palace in 1893.

In 1867, the Ninomaru Palace was the stage for the declaration by Tokugawa Yoshinobu, returning the authority to the Imperial Court. Next year the Imperial Cabinet was installed in the castle. The palace became imperial property and was declared a detached palace. During this time, the Tokugawa hollyhock crest was removed wherever possible and replaced with the imperial chrysanthemum.

In 1939, the palace was donated to the city of Kyoto and opened to the public the following year.

Ryōan-ji(龍安寺）
Ryōan-ji (Shinjitai: 竜安寺, Kyūjitai: 龍安寺 ?, The Temple of the Peaceful Dragon) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. Belonging to the Myoshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism, the temple is one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The site of the temple was originally a Fujiwara family estate. It eventually came into the hands of the Hosokawa clan branch of the Fujiwaras. Hosokawa Katsumoto inherited the residence, and lived here before the Ōnin War. Katsumoto willed the war-ravaged property to be converted into a Zen sect temple complex after his death. Later Hosokawa emperors are grouped together in what are today known as the "Seven Imperial Tombs" at Ryoan-ji. The burial places of these emperors -- Uda, Kazan, Ichijō, Go-Suzaku, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, and Horikawa -- would have been comparatively humble in the period after their deaths. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (misasagi) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.[1]

Ryōan-ji's tsuku (蹲踞 ?), which is a small basin provided at Japanese Buddhist temples for visitors to purify themselves by the ritual washing of hands and rinsing of the mouth.An object of interest near the rear of the monks quarters is the carved stone receptacle into which water for ritual purification continuously flows. This is the Ryōan-ji tsuku (蹲踞 ?), which translates literally as "crouch;" and the lower elevation of the basin requires the user to bend a little bit to reach the water, which suggests supplication and reverence.[2] The kanji written on the surface of the stone are without significance when read alone. If each is read in combination with 口 (kuchi), which the central bowl is meant to represent, then the characters become 吾, 唯, 足, 知. This is read as "ware tada taru (wo) shiru" and translates literally as "I only know plenty" (吾 = ware = I, 唯 = tada = only, 足 = taru = plenty, 知 = shiru = know). The meaning of the phrase carved into the top of the tsuku is simply that "what one has is all one needs" and is meant to reinforce the basic anti-materialistic teachings of Buddhism.

The absence of a dipper is intended to imply that the water is for the soul only and that it is necessary to bend the knee in humility in order to receive its blessing.

Kiyomizu-dera（清水寺）
Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺 ?), full name Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera (音羽山清水寺 ?) is an independent Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) UNESCO World Heritage site.[1] Not one nail is used in the whole temple. The temple should not be confused with Kiyomizu-dera in Yasugi, Shimane, which is part of the 33-temple route of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage through western Japan.[2]

其實這些都是維基網路找來的，本來想給鏈接的，網路說我有廣告，只貼了部分，其他的可用google 維基網路英文版找，包括景點介紹，歷史什麼的很全的。

❹ 澳大利亞和日本有什麼景點（用英文介紹）需

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❺ 日本景點介紹（英文）

1. 富士山 Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is with 3776 meters Japan's highest mountain. It is not surprising that the nearly perfectly shaped volcano has been worshipped as a sacred mountain and experienced big popularity among artists and common people.

Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano, which most recently erupted in 1708. It stands on the border between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures and can be seen from Tokyo and Yokohama on clear days.

The easiest way to view Mount Fuji is from the train on a trip along the Tokaido Line between Tokyo and Osaka. If you take the shinkansen from Tokyo in direction of Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka, the best view of Mount Fuji can be enjoyed from around Shin-Fuji Station on the right hand side of the train, about 40 to 45 minutes after leaving Tokyo.

Note however, that clouds and poor visibility often block the view of Mount Fuji, and you have to consider yourself lucky if you get a clear view of the mountain. Visibility tends to be better ring the colder seasons of the year than in summer, and in the early morning and late evening hours.

If you want to enjoy Mount Fuji at a more leisurely pace and from a nice natural surrounding, you should head to the Fuji Five Lake (Fujigoko) region at the northern foot of the mountain, or to Hakone, a nearby hot spring resort.

Mount Fuji is officially open for climbing ring July and August via several routes...
2.東京:Tokyo
3.大阪 Osaka
4.名古屋；Nagoya
5.神戶；Kobe

❻ 用英文介紹日本

Japan is a very beautiful and modern country.
Its image is a small island country with popular natural site such as FUJI mountain and so on, fashionable persons and buildings,advanced science and technology as well as interesting animation and comic. People in japan just work very hard so that they make their country become one of the strongest developed countries which is poor in natural resource.And this spirit is that we need to learn most about this wonderful country .

❼ 用英語介紹日本的風景名勝和日本料理...

日本「聖岳」——富士山
Fuji stands tall in the central and southern Honshu (Fujisan) is the highest mountain in Japan, with an elevation of 3,776 meters peaks in the clouds, the mountains or snow snow.
Mt by the Japanese people as "sacred mountain" is the symbol of the Japanese nation. It is about 80 kilometers west of Tokyo, Shizuoka across, Yamanashi counties, with an area of 90.76 square kilometers. And roughly conical shape the entire mountain with their source, the fan is like a vacant savings, the Japanese poet has used the "overhang East Yushan days", "Fuji snow reflects the sun," a poem praising it. Mt surrounded Jianfeng, white mountains and long sushi Yue, Dainichigatake, Izu-yueh, achievements Yue, Mitake Komagatake and other "Fuji 8 summit."
Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano. Rumor is formed by earthquakes in 2500 286 years. Since the year 1781, there are written records, a total of 18 meetings eruption, the last time in 1707, and later became dormant volcanoes. Due to the mouth of the volcano's eruption, in the foothills of Mount Fuji to create the numerous mountain caves there are still some jet phenomenon. Wind Cave Tomioka beautiful full unity on the wall like icicle stalactites to be found, all year round, as a rare spectacle. Peak size of a volcanic fire Pass, about 800 meters in diameter and 200 meters deep. The weather was fine, in the Peak watching the sunrise and watch clouds Japanese tourists to the rest of the world is indispensable to visit projects.
Mt Fuji is the northern foothills and lakes. From east to west of the mountain lakes, sights, the West Lake, it is necessary to lakes and the amphibious Lake. Yamanaka-ko largest area of 6.75 square kilometers. Lake has many sports facilities, tennis and water-skiing, fishing, camping and other human-powered boats. Nomura patient southeast of the lake, Chung Chi, mirror pool eight ponds, collectively known as "forbearance eight wild sea," Yamanaka-ko and the same. Kawaguchi is the first development of the five lakes, the traffic is here to facilitate tourism, the center has become lakes. Pelican island in the middle of the lake, the lake is only five islands. An island with a special blessing pregnant proction shrine. There are over 1,260 meters across the lake in the Lake Bridge. Kawaguchi, as reflected by the reflection of Mount Fuji, known as the Mt wonders of the world.
West Lake, also known as the west, is the most quiet of a lake, the five lakes. Reportedly, Xihu Lake was connected with the launch, which is divided into two after the eruption of Mt lake, but both are still linked to the lakebed. Taiwan shore Hongye, Aoki original tree sea ice Nakisawa points and feet Wadayama and other scenic areas. Fujitsu sophistication Lake is the smallest among the five lakes lake, but its most unique style, the banks have many tall cliffs and the terrain complicated. Resting most of the water, the depths of 126 meters. Lake ice all year round, is dark blue, the look is so unpredictable and ever-mysterious.
Mount Fuji is a substantial body of water in the highlands of the south, green grass and pastures for cattle and sheep flocks of tourists. Hill south of the West famous waterfall between the white and sounded only waterfalls. The 26-meter gap between white waterfall, a dozen of the small streams into rock faces, like countless Bailian defense heavens, forming a 130-meter wide of the rain, which is quite spectacular. Sounded just like a waterfall shock wave from height columns, as thunderous sound, the vibrations of the initiative. Mt say it is a natural botanical garden, as many as 2,000 species of plants of the mountains.
Susono in Shizuoka Prefecture city of Fuji foothills, either included Fuji safari park, with an area of 740,000 square meters, with 40 1,000 multi-feed wild animals, the Lions reached only 30 multiple. Visitors can drive a car, watch the restocking of animals in the park.
In addition, the area also have illusions travel Fuji Museum, the Museum of insects, and natural sciences department, and the fantasy of the museum, Fuji Museum, the Science Museum large, gardens and bird park, a pet monkeys parks and sports and entertainment venues and so on.
Temple is located at the top of the long sushi shrine -- and Asama shrine Fuji Hakone Izu National Park, the main scenic spots, as well as regular visitors to the land. Peak to the shrine every summer thousands of tourists both domestic and foreign tourists.

日本東京迪斯尼樂園介紹
The first amusement park in Asia, Tokyo Disneyland is the world's largest existing five blocks of a Disney park. Five consecutive years from 1994 to 1999 the number of visitors more than Disneyland in the United States.
There are two main reasons : its successful experience First, "everything is dynamic." Tokyo Disneyland theme park : Victoria Dynasty five times the world market style streetscape, a sense of adventure and legendary adventure theme park and the development of the West's Western Paradise, dreams and fairy tale dream land, the future, science parks and the future of the universe. A total of five major theme park 35 brilliant performances, is the common feature of all the activities are, the game. Strange, new and thrilling, intense scenes and figures tourists will forget reality into another world. So that it will become possible, the Japanese developed their own "electronic sound devices action." In such a device driven, in 2000 the total number of park over the figures and animals each room, reaching into alts to the extent that they are as people.
Second, "do not always build the Disney theme park." From opening to now, Tokyo Disneyland constantly added to the introction of a new playground equipment and services and the way to attract tourists and visitors come off the business strategy afresh. The Paradise original investment of 1,500 billion yen (about one billion U.S. dollars). 18 years, the theme park to build a super audio equipment and 35 playgrounds they have invested 120 billion yen. It is understood that within the next five years to build new projects, the Paradise prepared to invest 65 billion yen. This will enable visitors are always new fun and a new experience, the Disney theme park is maintained so great charm.

名古屋城堡
Nagoya is a symbol of Nagoya Castle, Nagoya, the first tourists arrived at the station. Castle was built in 1612, it was a piece of the park buildings around a small teahouse, a traditional Japanese garden. Castle is the most prominent feature of the two decorated eaves golden dolphins. Castle was damaged ring the Second World War, the 1959 renewal. Now, it is the art museum. More than 2,000 strains of brook spring blooming trees and verdant. Then the Nagoya Castle is the most beautiful.

壽司 Sushi
普茶 Putin tea
卓袱 Zhuo burden
三文魚 Salmon
生魚片 Sashimi

❽ 日本的介紹（英文版）

參考資料資料：選英文
GEOGRAPHY & CLIMATE
REGIONS OF JAPAN
FLORA & FAUNA
ECONOMY
TRADE & INVESTMENT
REGULATORY REFORM
ENERGY & RESOURCE
The Japanese economy is the second largest market economy in the world. In 2002 it recorded a gross domestic proct (GDP) of 532.96 trillion yen. Per capita national income in 2001 was US $24,038, ranking Japan fifth among OECD member nations. Since the collapse of the "bubble economy" in the early 1990s, however, GDP growth has stagnated, and, despite a couple of minor upturns, a sustained recovery has proved elusive. In an effort to revitalize the economy, the Japanese government is currently attempting to implement a wide range of structural and regulatory reforms. Major changes are also taking place in the corporate world as companies strive to increase competitiveness by moving away from traditional employment practices such as lifetime employment and seniority-based wages.

Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei's Basic Economic and Social Plan (February 1973) forecast continued high growth rates for the period 1973-1977. However, by 1973 domestic macroeconomic policy had resulted in a rapid increase in the money supply, which led to extensive speculation in the real-estate and domestic commodity markets. Japan was already suffering from double-digit inflation when, in October 1973, the outbreak of war in the Middle East led to an oil crisis. Energy costs rose steeply and the yen's exchange rate, which had not reflected its true strength, was shifted to a floating rate. The consequent recession lowered expectations of future growth, resulting in reced private investment. Economic growth slowed from the 10% level to an average of 3.6% ring the period 1974-1979, and 4.4% ring the decade of the 1980s.

Despite the oil crisis and its aftermath, Japan's major export instries maintained competitiveness by cutting costs and increasing efficiency. Instrial energy demands were reced and the automobile instry, in particular, was able to improve VLSI semiconctor instry. By the late 1970s, the computer, semiconctor, and other technology and information-intensive instries had entered a period of rapid growth.

As in the high-growth era, exports continued to play an important role in Japan's economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s. However, the trade friction that accompanied Japan's growing balance of payments surplus brought increasingly strident calls for Japan to further open domestic markets and to focus more on domestic demand as an engine of economic growth.

參考資料：http://web-japan.org/factsheet/index.html

❾ 日本地理英文介紹 附帶漢譯

Japan is located in Eastern Asia, but Japan is an island so it is in the North Pacific Ocean. 日本位於亞洲東部，它還是位於北太平洋西岸的一個島國。
Japan has more than 1000 islands, but there are 4 main islands. Honshu is the largest island in Japan. It holds 80 percent of the population. The island also has the capital of Japan, Tokyo. Tokyo is also the largest city in Japan. Honshu also has the famous peak, Mount Fuji.and it is a inactive volcano.
日本有一千多個島嶼組成，但主要是四個島，本州島最大，日本百分之八十的人口都分布在這里，日本的首都東京也位於這個島上。東京也是日本最大城市世界特大城之一。日本最高峰富士山也位於本州島上。它是一座活火山。
Climate:
Due to the large North South extension of the country, the climate varies strongly in different regions. The climate in most of the major cities, including Tokyo, is temperate to subtropic and consists of four seasons. The winter is mild and the summer is hot and humid. There is a rainy season in early summer, and typhoons hit parts of the country every year ring late summer. The climate of the northern island of Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan coast is colder, and snow falls in large amounts. In Okinawa, on the other hand, the mean temperature of January is a warm 17 degrees Celsius.由於日本南北跨緯度廣，南北氣候差別很大。大部分城市四季分明，冬季溫暖夏季涼爽，降水較豐富。
There are a lot of earthquake that occur in Japan. Japan has lots of earthquakes because it Japan lies on an unstable part of the crust. When the crust moves it causes an earthquake. About 1000 earthquakes occur each year.日本每年都發生許多次地震，是因為日本位於環太平洋火山地震帶上。Earthquakes also cause tsunamis. A tsunami is a huge wave, kind of a tidal wave. Typhoons are also a big factor in Japan. Since Japan is an island a lot of typhoons and hurricanes occur. They both occur in the summer. The heavy rains and winds usually destroy the crops.地震也引發海嘯。
Massive rains occur in Japan occur a lot of times. The rain usually causes huge year totals. 日本也多台風暴雨。
The economy of Japan is the third largest in the world[5] after the United States and the People's Republic of China but ahead of Germany at 4th. According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP was at $32,608 or the 23rd highest in 2009.日本經濟非常發達，國內生產總值僅次於美國和中國，居世界第三位。

❿ 日本京都的詳細英文介紹!

Kyoto (京都市, Kyōto-shi?) listen (help·info) is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.

Although archaeological evidence places the first human settlement on the islands of Japan to approximately 10,000 BC, relatively little is known about human activity in the area before the 6th century AD. During the 8th century, when the powerful Buddhist clergy became involved in the affairs of the Imperial government, the Emperor chose to relocate the capital to a region far from the Buddhist influence. Emperor Kammu selected the village of Uda, at the time in the Kadono district of Yamashito Province, for this honor.[1]

The new city, Heian-kyō (平安京 "tranquility and peace capital"), became the seat of Japan's imperial court in 794, beginning the Heian period of Japanese history. Later, the city was renamed Kyoto ("capital city"). Kyoto remained Japan's capital until the transfer of the government to Edo in 1868 at the time of the Imperial Restoration. (Some believe that it is still a legal capital: see Capital of Japan.) After Edo was renamed Tokyo (meaning "Eastern Capital"), Kyoto was known for a short time as Saikyo (西京 Saikyō, meaning "Western Capital").

An obsolete spelling for the city's name is Kioto; it was formerly known to the West as Meaco or Miako (Japanese: 都; miyako "capital"). Another term commonly used to refer to the city in the pre-modern period was Keishi (京師), meaning "metropolis" or "capital".

The city suffered extensive destruction in the Ōnin War of 1467-1477, and did not really recover until the mid-16th century. Battles between samurai factions spilled into the streets, and came to involve the court nobility (kuge) and religious factions as well. Nobles' mansions were transformed into fortresses, deep trenches g throughout the city for defense and as firebreaks, and numerous buildings burned. The city has not seen such widespread destruction since. Although there was some consideration by the United States of targeting Kyoto with an atomic bomb at the end of World War II, in the end it was decided to remove the city from the list of targets e to the "beauty of the city" (See Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and the city was spared conventional bombing as well.
As a result, Kyoto is the only large Japanese city that still has an abundance of prewar buildings, such as the traditional townhouses known as machiya. However, modernization is continually breaking down the traditional Kyoto in favor of newer architecture, such as the Kyoto Station complex.

Kyoto became a city designated by government ordinance on September 1, 1956. In 1997, Kyoto hosted the conference that resulted in the protocol on greenhouse gas emissions that bears the city's name.

A common English pronunciation of Kyoto has three syllables as /key-oh-toe/ [kʰi'otəʊ]; however, the Japanese pronunciation has only two: [kʲoːto].

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Kyoto became the imperial capital in the late eighth century when Emperor Kammu relocated the court from Nara . His first choice was Nagaoka, southwest of today's Kyoto, but a few inauspicious events led the emperor to move again in 794 AD. This time he settled on what was to be known as Heian-kyo , "capital of peace and tranquillity", which he modelled on the Chinese Tang-dynasty capital Chang'an (today's Xi'an). The new city was built on a rectangular grid of streets, symmetrical about a north-south axis, with the Imperial Palace to the north and the main entrance in the south. By the late ninth century the city was already overflowing onto the eastern hills and soon had an estimated population of 500,000. For the aristocrats at least, it was a life of exquisite refinement, characterized by boating parties and poetry-writing competitions, while Japanese arts were evolving their own identity independent of earlier Chinese influences.

From then on the city had a rather roller-coaster ride. In the late twelfth century a fire practically destroyed the whole place, but two centuries later the Ashikaga shoguns were busily building some of the city's finest monuments, among them the Golden and Silver Pavilions (Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji). Many of the great Zen temples were established at this time and the arts reached new levels of sophistication. Once again, however, almost everything was lost ring the Onin Wars (1467-78), which were waged largely within the city over an Ashikaga succession dispute.

Kyoto's knight in shining armour, however, was Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who came to power in 1582 and sponsored a vast rebuilding programme. The Momoyama period , as it's now known, was a golden era of artistic and architectural ostentation epitomized by Kyoto's famous Kano school of artists , who decorated the temples and palaces with their sumptuous, gilded screens. Even when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved the seat of government to Edo (now Tokyo) in 1603, Kyoto remained the imperial capital and stood its ground as the nation's foremost cultural centre. While the new military regime went in for extravagant displays of power, such as the Nijo-jo palace built for Ieyasu but rarely used, the emperor and his cohorts cocked a snook at such lack of taste by developing a talent for superb understatement in their architecture, gardens, arts and even everyday utensils; the rustic simplicity of the tea ceremony also evolved ring this period. Undoubtedly, this sudden delight in simplicity was born partly from necessity, but it nevertheless spawned many of the crafts for which Kyoto is now famous.

In 1788 another huge conflagration swept through the city, but worse was to come; in 1868 the new Emperor Meijimoved the court to Tokyo. Kyoto went into shock and the economy foundered - but not for long. In the 1890s a canal was built from Biwa-ko to the city, and Kyoto, like the rest of Japan, embarked on a process of modernization . This has continued to this day - amidst growing controversy in recent years - as Kyoto attempts to catch up with Tokyo and Osaka. Though many traditional wooden houses have been lost to developers, the city narrowly escaped a worse fate. At the end of World War II Kyoto featured high on the list of potential targets for the Atom Bomb, but was famously spared by American Defence Secretary, Henry Stimson, who recognized the city's supreme architectural and historical importance.

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