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1922 national meeting by group to liberate "burakumin"

OSAKA, Japan, May 29 Kyodo - The National Levelers Association holds its ninth national meeting at a public hall in Osaka, western Japan, on Dec. 5, 1930. The association was founded in 1922 to protect the rights of "burakumin," people descended from the outcast communities of Japan's feudal era. (Photo taken by Japan Telegraphic Communication Co.)

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Parade marking 410th anniversary of Domyoji battle

People posing as warriors clad in feudal-era armor parade in Fujiidera in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on May 4, 2025, marking the 410th anniversary of the 1615 battle of Domyoji between the armies of the Tokugawa and Toyotomi factions.

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Parade marking 410th anniversary of Domyoji battle

People posing as warriors clad in feudal-era armor parade in Fujiidera in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on May 4, 2025, marking the 410th anniversary of the 1615 battle of Domyoji between the armies of the Tokugawa and Toyotomi factions.

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Samurai warriors festival

KOFU, Japan, April 6 Kyodo - Actress Jun Shibuki, dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century feudal lord, poses before the start of a march during the 51st Lord Shingen festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 5, 2025. About 1,000 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors started marching along a road when the actress shouted a word of command. (Kyodo)

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Samurai warriors festival

Actress Jun Shibuki (top), dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century feudal lord, poses before the start of a march during the 51st Lord Shingen festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 5, 2025. About 1,000 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors started marching along a road when the actress shouted a word of command.

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Samurai warriors festival

Actress Jun Shibuki, dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century feudal lord, poses before the start of a march during the 51st Lord Shingen festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 5, 2025. About 1,000 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors started marching along a road when the actress shouted a word of command.

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Samurai warriors festival

Actress Jun Shibuki (top), dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century feudal lord, poses before the start of a march during the 51st Lord Shingen festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 5, 2025. About 1,000 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors started marching along a road when the actress shouted a word of command.

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Painting on round fan likely drawn by Utamaro found

TOKYO, Japan - "Uchiwa-e," a painting on an "uchiwa" round fan believed to have been drawn by famous feudal-era "ukiyoe" woodblock print artist Kitagawa Utamaro, is shown in this file photo taken on Aug. 7, 2014.

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Feudal-era wooden tablet depicts rare sumo technique

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - A wooden votive "ema" tablet from the Edo period (1603-1867) kept at a shrine in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, is seen in the western Japanese city on Oct. 16, 2014. The tablet depicts a sumo technique known as "kawazu-gake," or a leg-entangled throw.

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18 Santa Clauses from world gather in southwestern Japan

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Eighteen Santa Clauses from around the world, authorized by the Greenland International Santa Claus Association, gather in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, to promote the Sept. 14 World Santa Claus Congress in Amakusa, known for its observation of Christmas even when Christians were persecuted in feudal-era Japan.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. At center in the front is a ''noh'' performance stage. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Bettina Zorn, head of the East Asian Collections at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, explains a 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord at the museum on Feb. 11, 2013. The wooden model, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873 and found at the museum's depot in 1995 by Zorn, will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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19th-century daimyo mansion model found in Vienna

VIENNA, Austria - Photo shows the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna on Feb. 11, 2013. A 19th-century scale model of the mansion of a Japanese daimyo feudal lord, which was sent by the government of Meiji era Japan for the fifth world exposition held in Vienna in 1873, was found at the museum's depot in 1995. The wooden model will be repaired as a major exhibit at the museum from around 2016.

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Samurai warriors festival

KOFU, Japan - Actor Ikki Sawamura (L), dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century daimyo (feudal lord), receives a Guinness World Records certificate in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 7, 2012. A total of 1,061 people dressed as feudal-era samurai warriors took part in the Shingen-ko (Lord Shingen) festival that day. The event was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest-ever gathering of samurai.

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Samurai warriors festival

KOFU, Japan - A total of 1,061 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors march along a road during the Shingen-ko (Lord Shingen) festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 7, 2012. The event to honor Takeda Shingen, a 16th century daimyo (feudal lord), was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest-ever gathering of samurai.

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Feudal-era entertainers' procession features Asakusa festival

TOKYO, Japan - About 40,000 spectators watched a feudal-era entertainers' procession in Tokyo's Asakusa district during a festival on April 12.

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Tokyo firefighters hold New Year ceremony

Firefighters dressed as firemen from the feudal era perform ladder stunts during the annual "dezome-shiki" New Year ceremony of the Tokyo Fire Department at Tokyo Big Sight on Jan. 6, 2016. The ceremony, involving 2,800 firefighters and 160 fire engines, also included emergency drills. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Entry to central part of "Japan's Machu Picchu" to resume in March

Photo taken in July 2014 shows workers spreading a waterproof sheet over the central part of the Takeda Castle ruins in western Japan to prevent soil outflows, caused by the tramping down of vegetation by tourists, from damaging the feudal-era ruins. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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West Japan city begins events to mark 200th anniv. of feudal lord's birth

Hikonyan (C), a mascot character of Hikone in Shiga Prefecture, takes part in a ceremony in the western Japanese city on July 10, 2015, to kick off events marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ii Naosuke, a feudal lord of Hikone whom locals praise as having played a significant role in opening Japan to international trade and diplomacy toward the end of the Edo shogunate era in the late 19th century. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expert points to historical importance of naval dock in southern Japan

Toshitsugu Haji, head of a civilian group studying cultural heritage in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, talks about the historical importance of the Mietsu Naval Dock, built by the Saga feudal domain near the end of the Edo period (1603-1867), in the prefectural capital on June 20, 2015. The facility is one of the candidate sites of the Meiji-era (1868-1911) industrial revolution Japan is seeking to have registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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Tokyo snapshot: Woodblock print master Kitagawa Utamaro's tomb

Photo taken at Senkoji temple in the Kitakarasuyama area of Tokyo's Karasuyama district Oct. 15, 2015, shows a tomb of famous feudal-era master ukiyoe woodblock print artist Kitagawa Utamaro. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crown Prince visits art exhibition in Kyoto

Crown Prince Naruhito looks at a painting by Ogata Korin, a feudal-era master of the Rinpa school of Japanese-style painting, at the Kyoto National Museum on Oct. 28, 2015. (Pool Photo by Kyoto Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Old water well used by hospital remains in Tokyo botanical garden

A water well used by an old medical facility dating back to the Edo feudal era (1603-1867) remains in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden in the Hakusan area of Tokyo's Bunkyo district as seen in this photo taken on May 21, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Feudal-era entertainers' procession features Asakusa festival

TOKYO, Japan - About 40,000 spectators watched a feudal-era entertainers' procession in Tokyo's Asakusa district during a festival on April 12. (Kyodo)

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Caring about toilet noise: from feudal-era to 21st century

TOKYO, Japan - A handheld device called ''Keitai (portable) Otohime'' and a conventional device, attached to the wall of a Toto Ltd. showroom in Tokyo (top right), emit the simulated sound of a toilet flushing.(Kyodo)

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Caring about toilet noise: from feudal-era to 21st century

YAKAGE, Japan - A bronze urn dating from the 19th century, called ''Otokeshi-no Tsubo'' (Urn for Covering the Sound) and kept in storage at Yakage Folk Museum in Okayama Prefecture, is believed to have been used to disguise the sounds of feudal lords urinating.(Kyodo)

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The Hakone post town

With Mt. Fuji in the background, this is a picture of Lake Ashi and Hakone city. The pyramid-shaped roofs to the left are the Honjin, or lodgings of feudal lords during the Sankin Kotai of the Edo Era. From the right, they may be Matahara, Kawada, Koma and Ishiuchi, but this is not certain.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number26‐6‐0]

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Samurai warriors festival

KOFU, Japan - Actor Ikki Sawamura (L), dressed as Takeda Shingen, a 16th century daimyo (feudal lord), receives a Guinness World Records certificate in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 7, 2012. A total of 1,061 people dressed as feudal-era samurai warriors took part in the Shingen-ko (Lord Shingen) festival that day. The event was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest-ever gathering of samurai. (Kyodo)

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Samurai warriors festival

KOFU, Japan - A total of 1,061 people clad as feudal-era samurai warriors march along a road during the Shingen-ko (Lord Shingen) festival in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on April 7, 2012. The event to honor Takeda Shingen, a 16th century daimyo (feudal lord), was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest-ever gathering of samurai. (Kyodo)

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Painting on round fan likely drawn by Utamaro found

TOKYO, Japan - "Uchiwa-e," a painting on an "uchiwa" round fan believed to have been drawn by famous feudal-era "ukiyoe" woodblock print artist Kitagawa Utamaro, is shown in this file photo taken on Aug. 7, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Feudal-era wooden tablet depicts rare sumo technique

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - A wooden votive "ema" tablet from the Edo period (1603-1867) kept at a shrine in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, is seen in the western Japanese city on Oct. 16, 2014. The tablet depicts a sumo technique known as "kawazu-gake," or a leg-entangled throw. (Kyodo)

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Discrimination against coronavirus patients, medical workers

Photo taken on May 23, 2020, shows a computer screen displaying an online symposium held the same day to discuss ways to eradicate discrimination against coronavirus patients, medical workers battling the virus pandemic and foreign residents in Japan. About 160 people across Japan took part in the symposium, sponsored by an Osaka-based organization working to end discrimination against descendants of outcast people during the Japanese feudal era. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo