As production of Japan's traditional craftworks goes into decline due to diminishing spending power in their home market, ...

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period ...

The era's warrior class and its martial virtues were redundant but lived on — overshadowed by the pursuit of pleasure.

A newly discovered pair of painted folding screens have been confirmed to be the joint work of renowned Edo Period ...

A simple request to examine a centuries-old artwork led to a stunning discovery: the paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors ...

It’s no secret that Japan is experiencing overtourism, but actually it’s only parts of Japan—because too many tourists are ...

During the Edo period, the shoguns were descended ... in Kobudo and has translated many Japanese martial arts texts. In the introduction, Shahan notes that the word "kaishaku" or "second" is ...

This time, we want you to look at a mid-19th-century print by Utagawa Hiroshige of Japan: “Great Bridge: Sudden Rain at Atake ...