Many decades before satellites even existed, a Japanese cartographer named Hatsusaburo Yoshida was drawing cities as though he was floating thousands of feet above them. His vivid, colorful drawings ...
Obverse Image: Entwined dragon surrounded by a pearled border with Kanji and English text. Obverse Text: Romanization: MEIJI / SAN / JU / SAN / DAI / NIHON / 50 SEN (Translation: Year 33 of Meiji ...
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
Sugoroku, Japanese board games printed and published on newsprint, have been popular since the 19th century, if not earlier. This style of game is thought to have originated in China in the 6th ...
Archaeologists in Japan have unearthed a 1,900-year-old Chinese mirror that's not only still intact, but well-preserved enough to still show a faint reflection. City officials in Fukuoka, the capital ...
Check out Lark E. Mason’s appraisal of a Japanese copper spiny lobster, ca. 1900, in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...