The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese ... Getty Images The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi involves the visible mending ...

Her fame has faded as contemporary art historians and institutions have failed to shine a light on her — as well as Japanese women artists from centuries past more widely. “Very few would ...

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 ...

An exhibit of ukiyo-e depicting Japan’s tumultuous period of modernization, spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in ...

To start, head to the Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas campus for "The Floating World: Masterpieces of Edo Japan from the Worcester Art Museum." I've listed 10 short reasons why ...

“Ōoku: The Inner Chambers” tells a complex love story in an alternate-reality Edo Japan in which an illness ... and their position in a government hierarchy as the expectations of them ...

OSAKA -- American art enthusiast Joe Price, known for his collection of works by Edo-period painter Ito Jakuchu ... own American sensibility to collect Japanese paintings, helping to bring ...

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now ... those higher up the social hierarchy, such as samurai and lords, were ...