For those looking to dive into Tokyo’s past, Fukagawa Edo is a great substitute for the much larger Edo-Tokyo Museum, which ...

The copy, completed in June last year and unveiled in December, offers a penetrating look into Nagasaki’s heyday as a trading hub during the late Edo Period (1603-1867). “I expect the map will ...

When smallpox raged during the late Edo Period (1603-1867), the scars left on patients' faces were called "meccha." Ryosaku Kasahara (1809-1880), a local general practitioner, was referred to by ...

UKIHA, Fukuoka -- The former residence of a wealthy family here is a showcase of elaborate design, speaking to the present from its presumed completion time in the late ... the Edo period (1603 ...

reveals that Western modernization and the demand for exports influenced Japanese ceramics during the transitional period of the late Edo period to the Meiji period.