Iehiro noted that Edo culture is especially admired in Europe and the United States, so much so that cultural assets from the period are stored and exhibited all over the world. “Japan’s ...

The estimated average height of Japanese men reached ... as refrigerators in the Edo Period, people preserved meat by hanging it on sunless north-facing walls of a house.

Textual Cultures, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 3-19 (17 pages) Why were certain kinds of knowledge kept secret during the Edo period and what impact did secretive practices have on the ...

Long isolated in the mountains, this town in western Japan has preserved the unique charm inherited from the Edo period ... streets lined with 17 th-century houses made from dark wood, sake ...