Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

Even so, Tokyo has held on to many of its traditional ... 1185 to 1573), gardens took on a minimalistic design. In the Edo Period (from 1603 to 1868), the ruling classes preferred landscape ...

For most of its history, Tokyo was called Edo. For centuries, the cities of Kyoto and Nara were the centers of political power in Japan. However, during the Tokugawa Period, which lasted from 1603 ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period ...

Few figures in Edo-period (1603–1867 ... With ‘Tsutaya Juzaburo: Creative Visionary of Edo’, the Tokyo National Museum pays tribute to this pioneering man of letters, showcasing a sweeping ...

Sawajima Yuichi investigates matchmaking in the Edo period. Matchmaker Oume is known for her skill in finding successful matches. Discover what it was like finding a partner in old Tokyo.

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period artists Ito ... at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2 organized by the ...

Of the many major fires during the Edo Period (1603-1867 ... the most formidable combination conducive to stoking a fire. Tokyo registered 21 consecutive days without rain--the second-longest ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its ... of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo Period (1603 to 1868), and donated to the temple.

Sensoji, Tokyo’s oldest temple ... Asakusa was the downtown commoners’ district during the Edo period (1603-1868), an era of peace and cultural endeavour. Then as now, the area housed artisans ...