During the Edo period (1603–1868), the national government, or shogunate, required domain leaders to travel to Edo (now Tokyo) and remain for some time before returning home. Domains spent huge ...

The British Museum will take visitors on a journey through Edo Japan this summer through an exhibition of prints by Utagawa ...

The area is still referred to as Yoshiwara, for the pleasure quarters of the same name that flourished here during the Edo Period (1603-1868). It’s also the birthplace of Tsutaya Juzaburo ...

Its use has been traced back to Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). Before the shichirin's grilling potential was utilized by the ...

Japan has 47 prefectures ... often with borders matching the provinces that existed up through the Edo period (1603–1868). The standard order used in Japanese to list the prefectures runs ...

Netflix has presented a list of Japanese content for 2025, and among other things, showed the first frame of the series Last ...

In practice, this implied disporting oneself in the pleasure quarters and theater districts of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka that captivated the popular imagination of Japan from the late seventeenth to late ...

The popular store is filled with various collections of Japanese books, including literature from the Edo Period (1603-1868), ukiyo-e ... as the main character in a Japan Broadcasting Corp ...

Sushi is an iconic dish of Japan, with nigirizushi being the most popular style. We take a look at its evolution and the creation of key ingredients. During the Edo period (1603-1868), the amount ...