Bravery, drunkenness and murder are vividly represented at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery where a small but theatrical exhibition focuses on one of Japan's best known legends.

ONLINE ART APPRAISAL > ... Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. 2024. Edo Period in 10 Words and 4 Schools of Painting ...

The Flowering of Edo Period Painting. ... from the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, at the start of the seventeenth century, ... thirty-five-million-strong metropolis that now throbs on Edo’s ruins.

The same policies that locked Japanese society into a peaceful and orderly feudal system from the early 1600s through the 1860s fostered one of the country's most exuberant and vibrant art scenes.

John Rutherford Alcock (1809–1897), a British diplomat and writer, served as the first British minister in Japan during the ...

Born in 1719, Kawakami Fuhaku was a master of Japanese tea ceremony. Fuhaku was the second son of a vassal of the Mizuno family, who served the Tokugawa daimyo.

Atsu's personal tragedy spurs a revenge tale in Ghost of Yotei, set 300 years after Ghost of Tsushima, during Japan's Edo period. The game should expand beyond Atsu's revenge and explore political ...

In 'Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan,' leading postwar political scientist Masao Maruyama chronicles the ideas and debates of scholars throughout the Edo Period (1603-1868).

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.