Japan’s most famous highway ... The Tōkaidō saikenzu (Detailed Map of the Tōkaidō) included the castle towns and post stations towns from Edo to Kyoto, and it also showed Seki-juku next ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of Japan continues with a video on the Edo Japan’s social order and the bakuhan system, as we deduce what the feudal ...

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 ...

There had been a castle on a promontory overlooking the village since Heian times (794-1185), but it was only after the Tokugawa shogun relocated to Edo that it began to grow. Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 ...

In March 2013 the world-renowned Price Collection returns to Japan with “Jakuchū’s Here,” a six-month show that will bring more than 100 artistic masterpieces of the Edo period (1603–1868 ...

Foreigners had long sniffed at Japan’s tolerance — nay, celebration — of prostitution. Had Christian morality ruled the Edo Period (1603-1868), the famed yūkaku (pleasure quarters ...