Biwa leaves, harvested from the sacred loquat tree, hold a secret that has been passed down through generations of traditional beauty rituals. Packed with powerful antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals ...
“Because I came across the ‘biwa,’” he said. One day, he heard an intriguing instrument being played on the radio, which sounded more modern than the violin or the guitar. It was the sound ...
depicting scenic views from distinct points along the eponymous Lake Biwa, near the city of Kyoto. And while the geographic location in the film is nowhere near that Asian nation, in this imagined ...
It still supplies water, generates power and boosts tourism. Lake Biwa is Japan's largest lake and lies to the east of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture ...
A young girl named Biwa is the heroine of “Heike Monogatari” (The Heike Story), a Japanese anime series. In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike ...
Japan's biggest lake: Lake Biwa. It is four million years old, a source of water for 14 million people, and home to over ten aquatic creatures that are only found there. Lake Biwa contains rare ...
Night - Cloudy. Winds SE. The overnight low will be 28 °F (-2.2 °C). Sunny with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C). Winds from SE to SSE at 5 to 6 mph (8 to 9.7 kph). Showers today with a high of 50 °F ...
An early pioneering work of domestic architectural modernism with exposed concrete blocks and geometric designs stands along the Lake Biwa Ca・・・ ...
Relatively commonplace as that description may read, writer-director Marko Raat’s “8 Views of Lake Biwa” is closer to a dreamlike folktale — set sometime during the 20 th century — than ...