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 Edo Period marked the family’s heyday ... from the period are stored and exhibited all over the world. “Japan’s history appears to be complicated and difficult to understand from ...

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 ...

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.

However, because niter is soluble, it was not produced in humid Japan. For that reason, during the Edo period it was made ... scientific understanding of the history of our ancestors' discoveries ...

KAGOSHIMA -- Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima ... In Tokyo, called Edo at the time, where Sidotti was sent, he was ...