JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century Ink, colors and gold on paper, Daimyo shunga scroll, eight couples in various erotic positions including a woman smoking a pipe, their kimono untied beside ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century ...

It’s part café with out-of-the-ordinary food and drink items, and it’s part gallery with out-of-this-world art. Resobox was founded in 2009 as a meeting place for people who are interested in Japanese ...

In a collection of never-before-published photographs from 19th century Japan, two men are seen crafting traditional Edo-period pipes called "kiseru." Another scene shows a group of apprentice geishas ...

Unknown artist, “Internal bodily functions dramatized by popular kabuki actors (Kinrai ryūkō kabuki uwasa Kenbutsu no hara)” (late 19th century), woodblock (courtesy UC San Francisco, Special ...

This 19th-century Japanese screen of the Floating World depicts Tokyo’s notorious pleasure district, but it’s probably all imagined This delightful, dancing picture at Harvard Art Museums depicts the ...

The history of the Kimono Dress and the clothing revolution surrounding 19th century Japan. In the 19th century, Japan opened its doors to the world. The Kimono Dress, emblematic of a broader clothing ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Claude Monet owned more than 200 Japanese prints and once told a critic, “If you insist on forcing me into an affiliation with anyone else … then compare me with the old Japanese ...