If leading a sustainable life is the mantra of many Bay Area residents - underscored by daily reminders of global warming and diminishing natural resources - how to put the ideal into practice is not ...

The Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Japan’s Edo period manage to speak volumes about their world without raising their voice. These delicate yet powerfully evocative images are the fullest expression of ...

Ghost of Yotei takes place in the year 1603, at the beginning of the Edo period. Tokugawa Ieyasu had just been declared the ...

Edo-period Japan (1615-1868) was an age of great social and political change—and of epic book consumption. An expanding emphasis on knowledge and creativity gave rise to sophisticated networks of ...

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 ...

Performers, seen from behind, delight an audience in Katsushika Hokusai’s “Tōto shokei ichiran,” 1800. All images from the Gerhard Pulverer Collection, courtesy of the Sackler Gallery. Celebrities, ...

Shunmyo Masuno creates gardens that blend Zen philosophy with contemporary design. Here are his favourite green spaces in ...

If there's one thing that all humans have in common, it would probably be an interest in sex. Some of us like it, some of us love it, and most of us do it. Japan is obviously no exception, and ...