Hōshi: A Quick Documentary on the 1300-12 months-Previous Resort Run by the Identical Japanese Household for 46 Generations

Hōshi, a tra­di­tion­al Japan­ese inn in Komat­su, Japan, holds the dis­tinc­tion of being the sec­ond outdated­est lodge on the earth—and “the outdated­est nonetheless run­ning fam­i­ly busi­ness on the earth.” In-built 718 AD, Hōshi has been oper­at­ed by the identical fam­i­ly for 46 con­sec­u­tive gen­er­a­tions. Rely them. 46 gen­er­a­tions.

Japan is a coun­attempt with deep tra­di­tions. And while you’re born right into a fam­i­ly that’s the care­tak­er of a 1,300-year-old insti­tu­tion, you discover your­self strug­gling with points most of us can’t imag­ine. That’s par­tic­u­lar­ly true while you’re the daugh­ter of the Hōshi fam­i­ly, a mod­ern girl who desires to interrupt free from tra­di­tion. And but his­to­ry and robust fam­i­ly expec­ta­tions preserve name­ing her again.

The sto­ry of Hōshi Ryokan is poignant­ly instructed in a brief doc­u­males­tary above. It was shot in 2014 by the Ger­man movie­mak­er Fritz Schu­mann.

Word: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this submit appeared on our web site in April, 2015.

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