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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

the neighborhood is known for its cultural connections to Tokyo’s Edo period, when the nearby Sumida River was the major route through which new goods and ideas came to the capital. Now, a series of ...

According to historical documents, the Utsuro-bune is believed to have washed ashore on the coast of Hitachi province on the afternoon of Feb. 22, 1803, during the late Edo Period (1603-1867).

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 ...