The increased focus on foreign travelers follows the death of a Hong Kong woman on the outskirts of Otaru. The 61-year-old ...
Nestled in the heart of the Honshu mountains, Takayama’s nickname is “the little Kyoto of the Alps,” and for good reason: its ...
People have filled a traditional thatched icehouse with snow in Kanazawa, a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, inspired by a ...
In practice, this implied disporting oneself in the pleasure quarters and theater districts of Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka that captivated the popular imagination of Japan from the late seventeenth to late ...
Recently discovered folding screens show what life was like in a bustling castle town on Tsushima island between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula during the Edo Period (1603-1867). The pair of six ...
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’s cultural property committee that studied it ...