After a four-year renovation, the updated Edo-Tokyo Museum has reopened in the capital's Sumida Ward, offering visitors the chance to explore the capital's history spanning the Edo Period (1603-1867) ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the city of Koka in Shiga Prefecture — also known as a “ninja village” — a written copy of the original, famous book on the art ...
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Asato Ikeda -- Wakashu as third gender and gender ambiguity through the Edo period / Joshua S. Mostow -- Fleurs du mal : onnagata (female-role ...
An early Edo period document stipulating the Hosokawa clan code of conduct for vassals dispatched on a national project to rebuild Sunpu Castle has been discovered by Kumamoto University researchers.
This exhibition is the first of two to feature paintings, lacquer, and ceramics of the Edo period from the Freer Gallery's extensive permanent collection. Innovation within the established arts and in ...
What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional ...
In quiet Koto ward, away from the neon-lit skyscrapers and frenzied pace of central Tokyo, the Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a portal to a bygone era. It costs only a few hundred yen to explore this ...
TOKYO -- Our fascination with technology today can seem new. The Internet, 3-D imagery and satellites have changed the way we view the world. But modernity has a long history. People in the Edo period ...
The researchers analyzed snippets of DNA left in the centuries-old tartar buildup. Courtesy of PLOS One, Rikai Sawafuji Researchers in Japan have taken a close look at the tartar on centuries-old ...