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5 unusual facts about Yanaka


The Five-Storied Pagoda

Deep in the Valley interlaces a story of young romance set in Yanaka (part of old downtown Tokyo) with a Japanese period drama based on Five-Story Pagoda, a classic literary work by Rohan Kōda.

Yanaka

22489 Yanaka (1997 GR24) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1997

Hiroshi Yanaka (born 1958), Japanese actor and voice actor with Seinenza Theater Company

Yanaka Cemetery, huge cemetery located north of Ueno in Yanaka 1-chome, Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Yanaka Five-Storied Pagoda Double-Suicide Arson Case, the burning by arson in 1957 of a five-storied pagoda in the Yanaka Cemetery


Fumiko Enchi

She was elected to the Japan Art Academy shortly before her death on November 14, 1986, of a heart attack, suffered while she was at a family event in 1986 at her home in the Yanaka neighborhood of Tokyo.


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