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The Kidai Shōran scroll Tokyo street life in the Edo period Ozawa Hiromu and Kobayashi Tadashi ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

880-03 Translation of: "Kidai shōran" no Nihonbashi : kakki ni afureta Edo no machi : Berurin Tōyō Bijutsukan zō "kidai shōran" emaki This book was purposefully produced "backwards" and should be read ...
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The 5 best museums in Japan to see prints from the Edo period

In Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Atami, several museums house masterpieces of ukiyo-e, Japanese prints from the Edo period that immortalised old tea houses, landscapes of the Tōkaidō and Mount Fuji under ...
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OMA completes its first built project in Japan, a series of site-specific installations at Edo-Tokyo Museum

Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in 2011, published a seminal book about Japanese Metabolism—a postwar, albeit short-lived architectural movement championed by Arata Isozaki, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho ...
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The bond between the Japanese and animals as seen in ukiyo-e

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 ...
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Japanese Woodblock Prints Shine At Hammer Museum

‘Rising Sun, Falling Rain’ features over 80 ukiyo-e masterworks from the Edo Period, including landscapes by Hiroshige and Hokusai. On view through November 30. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has ...