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 ...

Discover the hometown of the Yoshiwara publisher who helped shape Japan’s artistic legacy and inspired NHK’s latest period ...

Workers at a sawmill use the latest tools and their honed skills to prepare the building blocks of Edo life: long, narrow beams, bamboo stems and leftover wood stacked as high as buildings.

TOKYO -- Millions of people are delighted by the sparkling spectacle of fireworks at festivals in Japan every summer, but did you know that Japanese fireworks once called "wabi" date back to the ...

Japan's oldest existing playhouse built in the Edo period (1603-1867) in this town in the western part of the country still stages･･･ ...

In Tokyo, called Edo at the time, where Sidotti was sent, he was accused of attempting to convert a Japanese husband and wife to Christianity, and was sent to an underground jail, where he died in ...

Edo Japan launches exciting new restaurant at Engel’s Corner At Edo, every meal is a one-of-a-kind adventure, where Japanese-inspired cuisine awaits you at the Engel’s Corner location in Colwood.

American art collector Joe Price, renowned for his marvelous collection of works made in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1867), died of old age on April 13 at his home in suburban Los Angeles.

During the Edo Period (1603-1867), when sugar was precious ... Although the total cultivation area for sweet potatoes in Japan has declined by more than 10 percent compared to a decade ago ...