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How a recycled garment made from tattered rags symbolises the ingenuity of what could have been one of the world's first large-scale ecological civilisations.

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 ...

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 Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women ...

While the Tokugawa shogunate held power in Japan in the Edo period (1603–1868), there were hundreds of domains with a degree of regional autonomy. Here we list the leading domains by economic scale.

Edo Japan You're Dead to Me In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate.

Warning: this article includes spoilers for Blue Eye Samurai. Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai is an anime series set during the opening decades of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867), also known as ...