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Kabuki actors, courtesans, ravishing teahouse girls and ghosts: These are only some of the denizens of Edo Japan’s so-called “floating world.” Their stories — and the natural landscapes in which they ...

Utagawa Kunisada I (also known as “Toyokuni III”), Rooster: Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Danshichi, from the series A Collection of Popular Birds in Accordance with Your Wishes, 1860, woodblock print ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The technique may be ancient. But the images at San Francisco's Legion of Honor Museum are actually a fast forward ride through centuries of change. The exhibit is titled, ...

The Japanese have long revered their natural landscape. Its beauty has been a central focus in Japanese culture, as has its power. All of this is rooted in the belief that supernatural forces and ...

Some of the most beautiful treasures at the Toledo Museum of Art are so ephemeral that they are seldom on display. In fact, if you miss the “Fresh Impressions” exhibit of 342 early modern Japanese ...

Time was when Japan’s cheap prints of almond-eyed prostitutes, grimacing kabuki actors and brawling porters were as popular as penny dreadfuls, and treated with no more regard. Few Japanese mourned ...