The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated to the temple. Meanwhile, a set of 1,532 photographs and two films ...

After all, the cast was a highlight of the show set in a slightly fictionalized pre-Tokugawa shogunate Japan ... from the Azuchi–Momoyama period to the Edo period in feudal Japan.

This is true to the historical accounts of feudal Japan before the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, which held power during the entire Edo Period between 1603 and 1868. Yoshii Toranaga is inspired ...

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate.

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan’s Edo era, and donated to the temple. Meanwhile, a set of 1,532 photographs and two films taken ...

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate.

The following year, the shogunate installed Matsudaira Sadayuki—nephew of Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun—as daimyo ... Historical displays provide insights into Edo period Japan's samurai culture ...