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thirty-five-million-strong metropolis that now throbs on Edo’s ruins. Through Sept. 7. (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Feb. 1-Sept. 7.) ...
MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government ...
A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...
TOKYO -- Stone walls from the Edo Castle thought to date back about 400 years, the oldest still existing from the structure, have been discovered at the renovation site of a museum at the Imperial ...
Toranomon was the name given to the western gate to Tokyo’s ancient Edo Castle, with the tora referring ... High-level artworks, curated by Mori Art Museum director Mami Kataoka, have also ...
Located in Hiroshima Prefecture’s Fukuyama City, Fukuyama Castle has a long history stretching back nearly 400 years. For a stellar reconstruction of an Edo-period castle as well as great views of the ...