The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

The city of Edo was home to over 1,000 refurbishing and recycling businesses. ... Japan's economy was as dependent on wood as we are today on fossil fuels.

Step into Edo, a city of samurai, merchants, and geisha. Discover the rhythm of life in Tokugawa Japan, where strict order met vibrant culture.

In April 1872, a backwater called the Ginza burnt down. It was rebuilt with wide avenues lined with brick buildings and named ...

Ukiyo-e (“Pictures of the Floating World”), a genre of Japanese art focusing on the portrayal of ukiyo (“The Floating World”), flourished from the 17th through the 19th century. During the Edo period ...

The city’s prosperity was largely because of a law that required feudal lords to live in Edo for six months of the year, maintaining their entire court of samurai and other servants there.

How a recycled garment made from tattered rags symbolises the ingenuity of what could have been one of the world's first large-scale ecological civilisations.

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo. It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period, the era ...