The collection features combs that women used to do their hair up in Japanese style ... with more than 5,000 accessories made from the Edo period (1603-1867) through the Showa era (1926-1989 ...

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo. It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period ...

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the Ukiyo-e on display at the Plains Art Museum until Sept. 28FARGO — The Plains Art Museum has an exhibition of wood block prints on display depicting life for ...

Kabuki actors, courtesans, ravishing teahouse girls and ghosts: These are only some of the denizens of Edo Japan's so-called ... So even though this was a period when Japan was isolated from ...

Real people of mixed heritage in Edo-period Japan Mizu (Maya Erskine ... women presented themselves as characteristically beautiful, with elaborate hair styles, makeup and clothing. They were supposed ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...

The Tokugawa shogunate’s (Japan’s military government during the Edo period) isolationist policy ... with elaborate hair styles, makeup and clothing. They were supposed to be educated and ...