This is the first “Yurei Zu” (ghost painting) in Japan confirmed to be an original by Okyo, a popular and influential painter from the Edo Period (1603-1867), according to a member of the city ...

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

A new installation at the Outernet is bringing the legendary work of Hiroshige to the big screens, in a collaboration with ...

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual ...

John Lennon's fascination for Japanese culture began before he met his wife but as he became famous he spent more time in the ...

In Kanazawa it’s clear the city is no stranger to visitors. Several hours north of Kyoto and touted as Japan’s “next big ...

Nefertiti and Pharoah Nana Akenten s Ancient Egypt This famous black woman whose statue is often seen circulating the world ...

The samurai rulers of the Edo period in Japan (1615-1868 ... Hiroshige made thousands of designs - as well as paintings and illustrations for books - and this collection at the British Museum ...

We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think ...

Mikio Sakabe, 49, a designer who runs his own fashion school in Tokyo, tells me that the avant-garde is linked to the country’s postwar era, a period ... s famous pleats to the art of origami ...