What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

When chemical dyes were first imported into Japan in the Meiji era, the color became popular as one of the ... century but then the Shimbashi geishas (also called Komparu geishas), fashion leaders of ...

One finding indicates that Japanese artisans were involved in embroidery for the dress, one of several worn by the consort to Emperor Meiji ... from the Momoyama Period (late 16th century).

The three-story, red-brick property was built in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) on what is now Glover Street in the city’s Minami-Yamatemachi district. It was originally used by a Catholic monastic ...

During the Edo period (1603-1868), the simpler modern orinoshi paper folds evolved and became associated with gifts of all kinds. During the Meiji period (1868-1912) these ornaments were used ...