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

For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867 ... Funasugi was commissioned by the Japan Institute of International Affairs, a Tokyo-based think tank researching ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of Japan continues with a video on the Edo Japan’s social order and the bakuhan system, as we deduce what the feudal structure ...

1 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 10 1/4in (4 x 8.7 x 26cm) ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868) were catalysts of change as well as being cool looking swordsmen in robes with a code of conduct that makes everyone who has existed since ...

a workshop in Kyoto’s Shimogyo Ward founded in the late Edo Period--the only remaining maker of magic mirrors in Japan, according to its representatives. The late Shinji Yamamoto, a third ...

A highlight is samurai armor taken to Malta by a Japanese delegation in the late Edo period (1603–1868 ... representing the long relationship between Malta and Japan. Maltese cuisine will be served at ...

reveals that Western modernization and the demand for exports influenced Japanese ceramics during the transitional period of the late Edo period to the Meiji period.