Edo period
Your eyes will love the traditional Japanese garden, but keep your ears open for a sound that’s been marking life in this town for centuries.
The Edo Neko Chaya has a beautiful interior, charming kitties, and a heartwarming mission.
After creating a stunning samurai-themed ukiyo-e world for their cats, this organisation is refusing to give up on them.
Take a trip back in time and into feline cuteness with this new cat cafe in one of Tokyo’s most history-rich neighborhoods.
When samurai needed toothpicks during the Edo period, this store had everything they were looking for.
This time on the menu – octopus sushi bowl, flower-shaped eggs, and an “ice cube” tofu dessert!
There’s a fine line between having enough Japanese touches to feel authentic, and having so many it starts to feel fake.
A collection of playful prints from over 200 years ago prove that Japan’s highly-refined sense of cute has a very long history indeed.
Once a hairstyle for married women of samurai families, this kit provides the tools for anyone to tackle this traditional ‘do in minutes!
Just be sure you’re wearing proper 19th-century attire – you don’t want to get any funny looks.
What would be the ultimate luxury in personal service for a highborn aristocrat? Someone to draw your bath? Peel your grapes? Fan you with palm fronds? How about a servant whose job it is to take the blame for your farts.
If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed over the course of human history, it’s humans. Sure, we like to pretend that we’re above nature and instincts by carrying around fancy phones and sending people into space, but when it really comes down to it, we’re all still mostly interested in the same exact same thing that humans thousands of years ago were interested in.
If you need further proof, then check out the upcoming Shunga Exhibit in Tokyo of erotic Edo Period woodblock prints. The pictures on display there aren’t too far off from what the Japanese adult media world produces today. Just be sure your boss isn’t looking over your shoulder while you get your Japanese history lesson, because these pictures are not safe for work!
Jakuchu Ito (伊藤若冲), who lived from 1716-1800, was one of Japan’s most prolific painters during the nation’s Edo period of isolation from the rest of the world. The majority of his works were in the form of hanging scroll paintings, and while they often depicted incredibly intricate scenes from the natural world, one Japanese net user was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this picture of a mother and child gibbon that appears decidedly more playful in nature, and it’s sure to melt your heart!
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