Recently discovered folding screens show what life was like in a bustling castle town on Tsushima island between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula during the Edo Period (1603-1867). The pair of six ...

Ghost of Yotei features a new protagonist, Atsu, set in Japan's Edo period 300 years after Ghost of Tsushima. The time jump from Ghost of Tsushima to Ghost of Yotei skips the important Sengoku ...

During the Edo Period (1603-1867), when sugar was precious ... or 20.5 percent of the total, for the first time. Although the total cultivation area for sweet potatoes in Japan has declined ...

Sawajima Yuichi investigates matchmaking in the Edo period. Matchmaker Oume is known for her skill in finding successful matches. Discover what it was like finding a partner in old Tokyo.

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 ... Hokusai. In a time of both misinformation and ...

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