The Edo Fukagawa Museum in Tokyo reproduces the town of Fukagawa-Saga during the late Edo period. (Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes) A wooden box holds broken dishes at Fukagawa Edo Museum in Tokyo's ...

Tokyo is a very rich and varied city, culturally speaking, in that it has both cutting-edge things and also allows us to think back to the Edo period.” Koyama Shuko Curator at the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo. It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period, the era ...

The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...

Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese shores.

TOKYO -- The woodblocks of a massive trove of precious documents compiled by an Edo-period (1603-1867) scholar have been preserved in a national cultu･･･ ...

Works from the Edo Period also include various wild animals such as deer, cranes, storks, and Japanese river otters. "There is a record that the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, hunted as many as ...