During the Edo period (1603–1868), the national government, or shogunate, required domain leaders to travel to Edo (now Tokyo) and remain for some time before returning home. Domains spent huge ...

Discover the hometown of the Yoshiwara publisher who helped shape Japan’s artistic legacy and inspired NHK’s latest period ...

Japan has 47 prefectures ... often with borders matching the provinces that existed up through the Edo period (1603–1868). The standard order used in Japanese to list the prefectures runs ...

Its use has been traced back to Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). Before the shichirin's grilling potential was utilized by the ...

Ramen noodles came to Japan around 1859 as an adaptation of Chinese wheat noodles. Soba are thin noodles made from buckwheat flour that appeared sometime in the Edo Period (1603-1868). Udon ...

In practice, this implied disporting oneself in the pleasure quarters and theater districts of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka that captivated the popular imagination of Japan from the late seventeenth to late ...

While yatai can be found throughout Japan, Fukuoka stands out as the city where the culture is most prominent. Yatai have their roots in the Edo period (1603-1868), when soba noodle vendors began ...

Sushi is an iconic dish of Japan, with nigirizushi being the most popular style. We take a look at its evolution and the creation of key ingredients. During the Edo period (1603-1868), the amount ...

The popular store is filled with various collections of Japanese books, including literature from the Edo Period (1603-1868), ukiyo-e ... as the main character in a Japan Broadcasting Corp ...