The Tokugawa Art Museum, located in the city of Nagoya, possesses a vast number of historic treasures that once belonged to the Owari Tokugawa family. This was the most senior of the three ...

The illustration of "Takekawa" ("Bamboo River") I of the national treasure "The Tale of Genji Illustrated Handscrolls" is seen at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Nov. 12 ...

curator Ann Yonemura purchased the first-ever artifact for the Sackler Gallery of Art. It was an antique Japanese palanquin. Palanquins were used as transportation during the Tokugawa period of ...

A newly discovered painting of a sparrow drawn by a Tokugawa shogun will be put on display at the Fuchu Art Museum in western Tokyo in September 2021. Museum curator Nobuhisa Kaneko identified the ...

This new special exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Museum focuses on how the Tokugawa shogunate was formed. Displays include objects linked to the shogunal family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years.

“Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay,” by Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado “A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation” (lesson plan), by Sara Thompson, ...