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 ...

Leading cartoonists in Japan joined forces to renovate a Meiji-Era (1868-1912 ... a cafe room and a gallery displaying manga illustrations and other artworks. A special exhibition featuring ...

It assumes prior study of the transition from the Tokugawa (Edo) era to the Meiji era, including: Commodore Perry’s arrival and resulting treaty, 1853-1854. Unequal treaties of 1858 with the United ...

During the Meiji Era (1868-1912), newspapers sometimes ran reports of mysteries, complete with illustrations. For instance, there was a report about ghostly, bluish-white lanterns appearing in the ...