Compared with other prints during the Edo period in Japan, these prints incorporated more movement. Hokusai was influenced by Western art that came to Japan through traders, such as Dutch and ...

The style of Japanese woodblock printing known as ukiyo-e (‘images of the floating world’) flourished during the Edo period ...

The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century Japan. It connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the de facto capital ...

American art collector Joe Price, renowned for his marvelous collection of works made in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1867), died of old age on April 13 at his home in suburban Los Angeles.

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National ...

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

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period artists ... Yuji Yamashita, a professor of Japanese art history at Meiji Gakuin ...

Kurara: Japanese word for dazzling, mesmerizing brilliance. The act of painting was always kurara to O-Ei, the daughter of the Edo period master ... but she soon chooses art over marriage and ...

Inro and netsuke are men's accessories which date from the Edo period of Japan (1603-1867). An inro was a portable case used to carry writing materials or traditional medicines such as ginseng and ...