Edo

(proper noun)

Former name of Tokyo.

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Examples of Edo in the following topics:

  • The Edo Period

  • Isolationism in the Edo Period

  • Art and Culture in the Edo Period

  • Kanō School Painting in the Edo Period

    • The Kanō School, which had a naturalistic style, was the dominant style of the Edo period (1603 - 1868).
    • The Kanō School (狩) was the dominant style of painting during the Edo period.
    • By the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period (1868), the Kanō School had divided into many different branches.
    • Tan'yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō School in Edo and painted in many castles, including the Imperial palace.
    • Describe the defining characteristics of the Kano School during the Edo Period, and distinguish it from literati painting

  • Crafts in the Edo Period

    • Traditional Japanese handicrafts associated with the Edo period include temari (a toy handball for children), doll-making, lacquerware, and weaving.
    • Of the many and varied traditional handicrafts of Japan, the one closely associated with the Edo period (1600–1868) is the ancient craft of temari.
    • Another craft that developed during the Edo period, while Japan was closed to most international trade, was doll-making.
    • Japanese lacquerwork reached its peak in the 17th century during the Edo period.
    • Several techniques of Japanese weaving and dying also thrived during the Edo period.

  • Zenga Painting in the Edo Period

    • Zenga is the Japanese term for the practice and art of Zen Buddhist painting and calligraphy, which developed during the Edo period.
    • Though Zen Buddhism had arrived in Japan at the end of the 12th century, Zenga art didn't come into its own until the beginning of the Edo period in 1600.

  • Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

    • In the early years of the Edo period, some of Japan's finest expressions in painting were produced by the Rinpa School.
    • In the Edo (江) or Tokugawa (徳) period between 1603 to 1868, Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, a form of military rule headed by the shogun.
    • It was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616).
    • The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868, after the fall of Edo to forces loyal to the Emperor.
    • One of the dominant themes in the Edo period was the repressive policies of the shogunate and the attempts of artists to escape these strictures.

  • Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints in the Edo Period

    • With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form.
    • With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form.
    • The best known work of ukiyo-e from the Edo period is the woodblock print series.
    • Describe the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Edo Japan, and the social milieu they most famously depicted

  • Japanese Literati Painting in the Edo Period

    • An important art trend during the Edo period was the bunjinga or Nanga School, a kind of literati painting highly influenced by China literati.
    • An important trend in the Edo period was the rise of the bunjinga genre, a kind of literati painting, also known as the Nanga School or Southern Painting school.
    • As part of the Nanga School, the bunjinga style of Japanese painting flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or intellectuals.
    • Under the Edo period policy of sakoku, Japan was cut off from the outside world almost completely.
    • Discuss literati painting in Edo Japan and its debt to China

  • Benin

    • Not to be confused with the present-day country of Benin, this empire dissolved into what is today the Edo State of Nigeria, marked by the capital, Benin City.
    • Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo today.