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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

An old Japanese proverb goes, “Edokko (people from Edo) are like carp streamers fluttering in the May wind.” This means they may be blunt in their speech, but they are basically frank, open ...

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 ...

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 five lessons in the unit are: Japan Rail Pass Tour (Culture Centers) The Pillow Book (Heian Period literature) Basho and Haiku (Edo Period literature) Haiku Hike Kamishibai Theatre (Modern Period ...