Last week, we visited some places connected with Neesima Yae by bicycle. Do you know her? Her story has been turned into TV dramas in Japan now. Yae was a Japanese woman of the late Edo period who lived into the 20th century. She herself was skilled in gunnery, and took part in the defense of Aizu during the Boshin War . After the war, Yae came to Kyoto to care for her brother Yamamoto Kakuma , who had been a prisoner of war in Satsuma custody. She remained in Kyoto, and became a Christian in the 1870s. Soon after, she married Rev. Joseph Hardy Neesima and, together with Neesima and Kakuma, played an integral role in the founding of Doshisha University . Yae was also a tea master of the Urasenke tradition, with the art-name of Neesima Sōchiku. She also served as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese War . First, we visited Doshisha Univers...
We are one of the RYOKAN(Japanese style Hotel) in Kyoto city. There are more than 2,000 foreign tourists stay with us every year. If you have any chance traveling to Kyoto, we hope you can stay at our hotel and enjoy Japanese style room and foods!