According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo period, which ended in 1868, in the area’s hot-spring villages, where ...

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High above the River Dee, my heart lodges somewhere in my throat as the land simply … stops. To my right, walkers keep pace with us on the towpath but to my left, there’s nothing but a 38m drop to the ...