The replica of the castle tower built in the 17th century ... Genna and Kanei eras of the Edo Period (1603-1867). The agency decided to recreate the keep constructed in the Kanei era since ...

Although construction of Osaka Castle was begun in 1583, what you see today is mostly a 1931 concrete replica ... but a theme park that recreates the Edo Period. After all those castles it ...

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 ...

Shunichi Saito (right), president of Tokyo Port Brewery, which dates back to 1812, and his daughter, Kaede, show off the Edo Kaijo (Surrender of Edo Castle) sake brand in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...