Samurai may have mostly faded from Japan at the turn of the 20th century, but the mark they left on Japanese society is ...

On our right was Nijo Castle, where, Nishibori informed me, the Meiji Restoration began ... as the curtain fell on its medieval past, the country entered a period of transformational change.

This 16th-century monument, one of the last twelve authentic Japanese medieval castles ... s original military purposes. During the Meiji era (1868-1912) the castle came under threat.

Sugimoto is a knife shop with a history that stretches back to samurai swords. Aritsugu is the same. Matsumura Katsuobushi dates back to the Meiji era. Sushi Dai still regularly has queues more ...

Likewise, we’re also doing a much bigger deep dive into Netflix’s upcoming movie slate here Last Samurai Standing – November 15th – Japanese period drama action title set during the Meiji period.

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

The styling is unmistakably Japanese, but the construction — including its button-actuated compression lock — is decidedly ...

spanning the late Edo period and the early Meiji, is running through May at the National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura, Chiba. Nishiki-e (literally “brocade print”) is a technique used ...