Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneu ...

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

For those looking to dive into Tokyo’s past, Fukagawa Edo is a great substitute for the much larger Edo-Tokyo Museum, which ...

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period artists Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) and Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795). The screens were ...

American art collector Joe Price, renowned for his marvelous collection of works made in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1867), died of old age on April 13 at his home in suburban Los Angeles.

Textual Cultures, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 3-19 (17 pages) Why were certain kinds of knowledge kept secret during the Edo period and what impact did secretive practices have on the ...