Below, we take a tour of the five sites to highlight Hagi’s charms and the industrial developments of late-Edo Japan. The old castle town of Hagi sets on a delta island at the mouth of the Abu ...

For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867 ... Funasugi was commissioned by the Japan Institute of International Affairs, a Tokyo-based think tank researching ...

a workshop in Kyoto’s Shimogyo Ward founded in the late Edo Period--the only remaining maker of magic mirrors in Japan, according to its representatives. The late Shinji Yamamoto, a third ...

They’re made with Kawagoe tozan, a local kimono fabric used since the late Edo period (1603-1868) and held in place by decorative traditional ume musubi-style knotted cords. If the weather ...

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.

Canadian restaurant Edo Japan opened its first location in the United States in the Phoenix area this month and is just getting started with expansion plans in Arizona. Edo Japan, a more than 45 ...