Meireki Oban Gold Shield Keicho Era (1658-95): $84,000 This ... during year 13 of the reign of Emperor Meiji — a year in which “relatively few” coins were minted, boosting its value.

What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...

Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...

The new scholarly yet accessible book The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era sets the record straight with remarkable clarity. Author and curator Rosina Buckland’s book joins ...