Even so, Tokyo has held on to many of its traditional ... 1185 to 1573), gardens took on a minimalistic design. In the Edo Period (from 1603 to 1868), the ruling classes preferred landscape ...

An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional woodblock prints and paintings) and crafts, ...

At Potato Labo Asakusa, a specialty sweet potato shop in Tokyo’s Taito Ward ... wave of popularity across the ages. During the Edo Period (1603-1867), when sugar was precious, they became ...

TOKYO -- The woodblocks of a massive trove of precious documents compiled by an Edo-period (1603-1867) scholar have been preserved in a national cultural property in the Japanese capital's Shibuya ...

The campus is also home to a historical site that dates back to the Edo period. So you can see down here, these are actually the playing fields of Sophia University. 03:01 But the playing fields ...

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period artists Ito ... at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2 organized by the ...

Today the Kanda area in central Tokyo is a business district, but it has roots in the early days of the Edo period as a town of craftspeople and artisans. With a Kanda native as our guide ...

During the Edo period, which ran from the 1600s to the 1800s, the shoguns, the military leaders who ruled in Tokyo, promoted the peak as a symbol of the stability of the country under their reign ...

And before that, it was the residence for some of Japan's most important figures, including Emperor Meiji (credited for modernizing Japan) and rulers during the Edo Period (the time period before ...