Feudal Japan was a complex society with a hierarchical structure of power. At the top was the Emperor, who was considered the undisputed ruler of Japan but held little actual power. The Shogun, or ...

To use “A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan Through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation,” you will need to download woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige. Links to these prints are provided in the ...

A newly discovered painting of a sparrow drawn by a Tokugawa shogun will be put on display at the Fuchu Art Museum in western Tokyo in September 2021. Museum curator Nobuhisa Kaneko identified the ...