Renowned poet Matsuo Basho wrote haikus documenting his travels across Japan. Read about some of the views he encountered on ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual ...

Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

The forgotten burial ground was discovered at a redevelopment site where four skyscrapers are slated to be built.

The ninth year of the Kansei era of the Edo Period (1603-1867) in feudal Japan corresponds to the year 1797 in the West. That year, in the Nanbu Clan territory of Morioka, it came to light that ...

People seeking to melt away their stress at one of Japan's famous hot springs are instead finding themselves immersed in throngs o ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

Textual Cultures, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 3-19 (17 pages) Why were certain kinds of knowledge kept secret during the Edo period and what impact did secretive practices have on the ...