Takashina Shūji explores the mountain in art, culture, and history ... The feudal lord Ōta Dōkan built Edo castle around the middle of the fifteenth century, when the town was still a backwater.

This exhibit presents the adventure story through artwork produced during Japans Edo period (1615-1868 ... move across the top to the rooms of the monsters castle and end along the bottom ...

Every May, the grounds surrounding Himeji Castle hold the Himeji ... this historic celebration blends Edo-period reenactments, traditional performing arts and lively community spirit.

An accomplished swordsman, he later in life traded the study of martial arts for Zen ... at the Buddhist temple Kan’ei-ji northeast of Edo Castle, be resigned to whatever fate the emperor ...

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government ...

Few figures in Edo-period (1603–1867) Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneur with a keen eye for talent ...

Shunichi Saito (right), president of Tokyo Port Brewery, which dates back to 1812, and his daughter, Kaede, show off the Edo Kaijo (Surrender of Edo Castle) sake brand in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

Located in Hiroshima Prefecture’s Fukuyama City, Fukuyama Castle has a long history stretching back nearly 400 years. For a stellar reconstruction of an Edo-period castle as well as great views of the ...