One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available ... the National Museum of Asian Art. Where Edo period (1603-1868) woodblocks were drawn ...

KYOTO--Suits of samurai armor given to Malta as diplomatic gifts in the 19th century returned to Japan for repair work ... a steel suit of armor from the mid-Edo Period (1603-1867), is of ...

At the end of the Edo Period, foreigners could have been attacked amid a growing movement that called for expelling non-Japanese citizens. The Tokugawa Shogunate restricted foreigners ...

In Japan, that form has three legs, a beak, scaly skin and floor-length hair. Meet Amabie, the 19th century half-fish ... beasts reported during the Edo period, and it probably derives from ...

Inro and netsuke are men's accessories which date from the Edo period of Japan ... the influence of western culture on Japan in the 19th century. In the 1870s the Japanese government encouraged ...

Narezushi made its way to Japan in the 8th century by way ... which is the modern way to season sushi rice. During the Edo period, around the 17th to 19th century, nigiri sushi or hand rolled ...