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) ...

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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 ...

The story of Tokyo is composed of countless chapters, rewritten over centuries of destruction and reconstruction, frustration and inspiration, memories and dreams. Its cast of characters runs into the ...

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 ...

Summer has officially arrived in Tokyo, and with it a glorious slate of seasonal festivals, fireworks shows, beer gardens and ...

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 ...

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PROVIDENCE — Japan’s Edo period lasted from 1615-1868. It was an era of prosperity and peace. Among other things, wealth and lack of conflict meant food was plentiful and culinary culture could ...

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 ...