Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneu ...

The 14,000 sqm projection on Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building offers visitors a free nightly spectacle in the heart of ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

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.

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 Philbrook Museum’s Samurai exhibit showcases 80 pieces of armor, offering a glimpse into the art and history of Japan’s warrior class.

Textual Cultures, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 3-19 (17 pages) Why were certain kinds of knowledge kept secret during the Edo period and what impact did secretive practices have on the ...

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 ...