The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the Ukiyo-e on display at the Plains Art Museum until Sept. 28FARGO — The Plains Art Museum has an exhibition of wood block prints on display depicting life for ...

The Photograph Album of the Former Edo Castle was shot in 1871 soon after Japan entered on its new path of modernisation. The album contains 64 photographs of Edo Castle, the great symbol of power ...

“Firemen were the warriors of their day in Edo,” said Martha Blackwelder, the museum’s Asian art curator ... the death in his family’s ravaged castle. A long history Happi jackets ...

Takashina Shūji explores the mountain in art, culture, and history ... The feudal lord Ōta Dōkan built Edo castle around the middle of the fifteenth century, when the town was still a backwater.

This exhibit presents the adventure story through artwork produced during Japans Edo period (1615-1868 ... move across the top to the rooms of the monsters castle and end along the bottom ...

Every May, the grounds surrounding Himeji Castle hold the Himeji ... this historic celebration blends Edo-period reenactments, traditional performing arts and lively community spirit.

Initially built in 1622 at the beginning of the Edo period as the last ... turn a city and its buildings into art without physically altering it. The castle grounds and castle of Fukuyama are ...

After being assigned to Edo Castle in 1590, Ieyasu charged this warrior ... a band of 200 ninja -- secret agents who practiced the art of disguise and secret entry. Hence the origin of the ...

This was very different to Edo, now modern day Tokyo, with its shogunate castle surrounded by a moat situated at the city center, a convention that was later standardized for other daimyo ...

Few figures in Edo-period (1603–1867) Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneur with a keen eye for talent ...