絹の道

This is a very new site, and is currently undergoing ‘Silk Road roadworks’. (:

This website is a curiosity collection related to history, global cultures and nature, historical re-enactment and the Society for Creative Anachronism, as well as random things that come to mind.

Kinu No Michi (絹の道) is the Japanese translation of Silk Road. The Silk Road is the modern name given to a network of trading routes which began to develop in antiquity and eventually spread across the continents to link Asia, Africa, and Europe. At one end was England, and at the other end was Japan.

_{The image used in the header is by a 15th century Japanese artist named Kanō Masanobu, and is a National Treasure. The full image can be found at Wikimedia Commons.}