Japan has a proud history of anti-imperialist struggle. Samurai means “to Serve” and belongs to the warrior class of feudal Japan. The classes of Japan were based upon the caste system of India and ...

From 1603 to 1867, Japanese culture flourished and featured a unique and highly controlled system of gender dynamics. Japanese Traditional Theater, or Kabuki (歌舞伎), often exaggerated these dynamics ...

Geisha/Samurai: Memories of Japan, the new exhibition at Palau Martorell, showcases life in ancient Japan through 200 pieces, including universally celebrated prints such as The Great Wave off ...

My leisure reading of late has been all about Japan. I'm not sure why I've been reading the bestsellers of the past such as Memoirs of a Geisha and Shogun but they have both made Madama Butterfly, my ...

A bourgeois art for a culture of pleasure / Francesco Paolo Campione -- A marvelous skill -- A "matière souple et élastique." the techniques and materials used in Japanese woodblock printing / Marta ...

We’ve talked before about geisha as one of Japan’s distinctly female professions, so this time we’re going to share with you a few fun facts about the geisha and their floating world. How many of ...

AN ATTEMPT to understand her younger sister’s suicide lies at the heart of writer/performer Shoko Ito’s play, though combining that story with one about a time-travelling Samurai who starts a computer ...