including the stone wall that supports it, is about 2 meters high, just one-30th the size of the original, believed to be the biggest one ever built in Japan. But if you catch yourself drifting ...

These were my thoughts upon seeing for the first time decades ago a photograph of Shirakawago on a Japanese wall calendar ... emerged between the end of the Edo Period (1603-1867) and the Taisho ...

reveals that Western modernization and the demand for exports influenced Japanese ceramics during the transitional period of the late Edo period to the Meiji period.