The uniform Tanjiro wears resembles a gakuran. The gakuran is a type of male student clothing schools adopted on the orders during the Meiji era. It has survived the Meiji era and World War II to ...

What ensued was an era of modernization in architecture, fashion, industry, government and art like no other, gloriously evidenced in “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan,” a building-wide ...

In their private lives, Japanese in the Meiji era still wore Japanese clothing and preferred Japanese-style living space. Ask students to review their predictions from the first day as to how changes ...

One finding indicates that Japanese artisans were involved in embroidery for the dress, one of several worn by the consort to Emperor Meiji ... from the Momoyama Period (late 16th century).

As you walk through its towering torii gates and lush forested paths, you can feel the tranquil power of nature, which the Meiji era sought to harmonize with Japan's rapid modernization.

Arts reporter Katherine Chen discusses the artistic perspective of the Meiji period, on display in the Smart Museum’s spring exhibition. Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at the Smart Museum of ...

The three-story, red-brick property was built in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) on what is now Glover Street in the city’s Minami-Yamatemachi district. It was originally used by a Catholic monastic ...