Featured will be more than 40 outstanding examples of Edo-period hanging scroll paintings from the collection of Estelle P. Bender and her late husband, T. Richard Fishbein.

Birds were a popular part of Japanese art during the Edo period. Eagle hanging scroll by Kishi Ganku, ca. 1802. Courtesy of the Freer Gallery Two new exhibits at the Freer Gallery explore the ...

For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the ...

Running through June 11, the exhibition collects woodblock prints, paintings, luxury objects and personal adornments, all centering around the Edo period’s “third gender.” ...

Return to the Edo period during filmed presentations at the University of Washington on Nov. 1-2, and explore the traditional Ukiyo-e woodblock prints that have become one of the island nation’s ...

Works from the Edo period also include various wild animals such as deer, cranes, storks, and Japanese river otters. “There is a record that the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, hunted as many as ...

As a result, Edo rapidly grew from a quiet fishing village into a metropolis of more than a million people strictly divided into a four-tiered social order with military cadre at the top and, at ...

Owning Edo-period paintings / Timon Screech -- The Kotohiragū collection : dedications to the Kompira deity / Daisuke Itō -- Fools for art : two Maeda Daimyo as collectors in seventeenth-century ...

Few figures in Edo-period (1603–1867) Japan left as indelible a mark on the world of publishing and art as Tsutaya Juzaburo (1750–1797). A masterful entrepreneur with a keen eye for talent ...