Hiroshige's vibrant woodcuts capture everyday life, landscapes, and culture during a transformational era in Japan.

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa ... enormous houses and dressing in finery that ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British Museum ...

Museum curator Nobuhisa Kaneko identified the drawing, which is a hanging scroll and features a sparrow among bamboos, as a work of Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-1651). Kaneko studies the third shogun ...

It also gives references for further reading on important topics related to Tokugawa Japan. During the Great Peace of the Tokugawa era, many economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. While the ...