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Documents on Korean envoys to Japan eyed for UNESCO list

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Officials of Japanese and South Korean local governments and private organizations meet in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on Aug. 25, 2014, to discuss plans to seek the listing on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register of documents on Korean dynasty envoys dispatched to Japan mainly during the Edo period (1603-1868). They agreed to apply for registration in 2016.

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Event to reenact Korean envoy procession to Japan

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - A colorful event to reenact a procession of Korean envoys to Japan dispatched by the Joseon Dynasty during the Edo period (1603-1868) to deepen the bilateral ties takes place in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, with some 240 people, including those from South Korea's Busan, walking along the western Japanese city's waterfront on Aug. 23, 2014.

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Tohoku students trying to become art restorers

TOKYO, Japan - Chie Takano, a fourth-year student at the Tohoku University of Art and Design, analyzes fibers used in a "hina" doll produced during the Edo period (1603-1868) with a microscope at a university laboratory in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture on July 18, 2013.

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Museum of 'Ogura hyakunin isshu'

KYOTO, Japan - A diorama forms part of the displays at Shigureden, a Kyoto museum devoted to ''Ogura hyakunin isshu'' (100 poems by 100 poets). The museum was shown to the media on March 14, 2012, prior to its scheduled reopening on March 17 following a yearlong renovation. Hyakunin isshu karuta (playing cards) of the Edo period (1603-1868) and dolls representing the poets are among the exhibits and visitors can try on Heian period (794-1185) costumes.

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Corporate manager arrested for stealing Buddhist statue

KYOTO, Japan - This photo shows more than 20 Buddhist statues confiscated by police from the house of corporate manager Itsuo Abe, 59, of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture. The Kyoto prefectural police arrested Abe on suspicion of stealing a wooden statue of a multiheaded deity, which was created in the early Edo period (1603-1868), from a Kyoto temple in January.

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Japan's Crown Prince visits Vietnamese ancient town of Hoi An

HOI AN, Vietnam - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (C) views ''the Japanese Bridge'' (back) which is said to have been constructed by Japanese in Hoi An, Vietnam's ancient capital on the south central coast, on Feb. 11. Many Japanese had visited the town, which was declared a World Heritage site in 1999, on a trading ship during the Edo period (1603-1868). Naruhito is on his first trip to Vietnam from Feb. 9 through 15.

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PM Abe receives porcelain gift

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) receives a sake server made of Imari Nabeshima style porcelain from a representative, wearing a traditional attire, of the porcelain industry in the city of Imari in southwestern Japan. At left in the back is Imari Mayor Yoshikazu Tsukabe. Imari Nabeshima porcelain wares were often used as gifts to shoguns and the imperial court during the Edo era (1603-1868). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Annual Japan-S. Korea festival held in Seoul

A parade re-enacting a procession of missions sent by the Joseon dynasty to Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868) is held in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2015, as part of a two-day annual festival aimed at promoting cultural exchanges between Japan and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman completes encyclopedia of prominent women in Edo period

Photo shows Japanese historian Keiko Shiba, who has formulated an encyclopedia of prominent Japanese female figures in the Edo period (1603-1868). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tokyo Olympic torch relay taking place on April 3, 2021, in Gifu Prefecture's Nakatsugawa, which was a post town on the Nakasendo road from Kyoto to Edo during the Edo period (1603-1868).

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay took place on April 3, 2021, in Gifu Prefecture's Nakatsugawa, which was a post town on the Nakasendo road from Kyoto to Edo during the Edo period (1603-1868).

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Students promote tricky sake cup dating back to feudal era

Tsukasa Nakazawa, a student of Nagaoka University in the eastern Japan city of Nagaoka, shows on Dec. 15, 2015, a "jubunhai," a tricky sake cup that has a siphon inside an ornament at its center and is similar to a Greek Pythagorean cup. When sake is poured to fill more than eight-tenths of the cup's capacity, the liquid will leak out through a hole at its bottom. Nakazawa and other students from the university are promoting the cup as a tourism resource, as it was used in the Edo period (1603-1868) by local lords to urge thriftiness, but has since been forgotten. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Students promote tricky sake cup dating back to feudal era

Students of Nagaoka University in the eastern Japan city of Nagaoka show on Dec. 15, 2015, a "jubunhai," a tricky sake cup that has a siphon inside an ornament at center similar to a Greek Pythagorean cup. When sake is poured to fill more than eight-tenths of the cup's capacity, the liquid will leak out through a hole at its bottom. The students are promoting the cup as a tourism resource, as it was used in the Edo period (1603-1868) by local lords to urge thriftiness, but has since been forgotten. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Corporate manager arrested for stealing Buddhist statue

KYOTO, Japan - This photo shows more than 20 Buddhist statues confiscated by police from the house of corporate manager Itsuo Abe, 59, of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture. The Kyoto prefectural police arrested Abe on suspicion of stealing a wooden statue of a multiheaded deity, which was created in the early Edo period (1603-1868), from a Kyoto temple in January. (Kyodo)

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Museum of 'Ogura hyakunin isshu'

KYOTO, Japan - A diorama forms part of the displays at Shigureden, a Kyoto museum devoted to ''Ogura hyakunin isshu'' (100 poems by 100 poets). The museum was shown to the media on March 14, 2012, prior to its scheduled reopening on March 17 following a yearlong renovation. Hyakunin isshu karuta (playing cards) of the Edo period (1603-1868) and dolls representing the poets are among the exhibits and visitors can try on Heian period (794-1185) costumes. (Kyodo)

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Documents on Korean envoys to Japan eyed for UNESCO list

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Officials of Japanese and South Korean local governments and private organizations meet in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on Aug. 25, 2014, to discuss plans to seek the listing on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register of documents on Korean dynasty envoys dispatched to Japan mainly during the Edo period (1603-1868). They agreed to apply for registration in 2016. (Kyodo)

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Event to reenact Korean envoy procession to Japan

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - A colorful event to reenact a procession of Korean envoys to Japan dispatched by the Joseon Dynasty during the Edo period (1603-1868) to deepen the bilateral ties takes place in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, with some 240 people, including those from South Korea's Busan, walking along the western Japanese city's waterfront on Aug. 23, 2014. (Kyodo)

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2020 Tokyo Olympic torch relay

File photo taken Feb. 17, 2020, shows Ouchijuku, a historic preservation district in Shimogo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima that prospered as a post station during the Edo Period (1603-1868). The torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will pass the historic landmark on March 28. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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National Confectionary Expo in Mie, Japan

Craftwork sweets depicting the pilgrimage to Ise Shrine during the Edo period (1603-1868) are unveiled in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on April 20, 2017, on the eve of the beginning of the 27th National Confectionary Exposition in the central Japanese city. It took 110 local confectioners and about a year to create the 10 meter by 5.5 meter work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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National Confectionary Expo in Mie, Japan

Craftwork sweets depicting the pilgrimage to Ise Shrine during the Edo period (1603-1868) are unveiled in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on April 20, 2017, on the eve of the beginning of the 27th National Confectionary Exposition in the central Japanese city. It took 110 local confectioners and about a year to create the 10 meter by 5.5 meter work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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National Confectionary Expo in Mie, Japan

Craftwork sweets depicting the pilgrimage to Ise Shrine during the Edo period (1603-1868) are unveiled in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on April 20, 2017, on the eve of the beginning of the 27th National Confectionary Exposition in the central Japanese city. It took 110 local confectioners and about a year to create the 10 meter by 5.5 meter work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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National Confectionary Expo in Mie, Japan

Craftwork sweets depicting the pilgrimage to Ise Shrine during the Edo period (1603-1868) are unveiled in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on April 20, 2017, on the eve of the beginning of the 27th National Confectionary Exposition in the central Japanese city. It took 110 local confectioners and about a year to create the 10 meter by 5.5 meter work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo