This might be the most true to the book movie I’ve ever seen.
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Tag: Japan
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Woman in the Dunes
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Forty six generations, 1,300 years, one family business.
Can you imagine the level of honoring your roots and identity? Are there any examples this breathtaking in Western Civilization? I thought I was hot stuff just because I could about to trace back a family line of mine to the early 1200s and my surname’s 9th great-grandfather
The Hōshi family has run the inn bearing their name in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture for 1,300 years. Forty six generations have accepted the profession of their ancestors, but that same weight of tradition keeps the family sharply focused on the present moment.