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 ...

10 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄8 x 1 ¾ in. (25.7 x 23.8 x 4.5 cm.) 14 3⁄8 x 23 ¾ x 5 ¼ in. (36.5 x 60.3 x 13.3 cm.) ...

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 ...

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period ... than half a century. On Jan. 1, writer and critic Iehiro Tokugawa, 57, was named 19th head of the ...

He calls it a "time-consuming and costly" method, commonly used to dye kimonos in the 17th-19th century Edo period. Momotaro Jeans was established in 2006 by Japan Blue, one of a few dozen denim ...