EditorialA dish is served on a plate made for the restaurant by leading Japanese ceramists, at Yoshino in New York, Nov. 7, 2022. (Evan Sung/The New York Times)
EditorialVillage on the Yoshino River, illustration for The Brocade Shell (Nishiki-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1816-1826. Dimensions: 20....
EditorialChef Tadashi Yoshida sears mackerel sushi with burning charcoal at his omakase restaurant Yoshino, in Manhattan’s East Village, Nov. 17, 2022, where “you get the whole package, presented in a space so intimate you can’t help being drawn into the performance,” writes Pete Wells. (Evan Sung/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Murajiro as Ben no Naishi, in the shosa "Sode Furu Yuki Yoshino Shui," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1786. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1786. Dimen...
EditorialYoshitsune's Horse-washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washu Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki) from the series "A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1828-1838...
EditorialVillage on the Yoshino River, illustration for The Brocade Shell (Nishiki-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1816-1826. Dimensions: 20....
EditorialThe actors Ichikawa Komazo III as Akuhachiro Tokikage and Nakayama Tomisaburo I as Yushide, the sister of Rokurozaemon, in the play "Hana to Mimasu Yoshino no Miyuki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1798. Utagawa Toyokuni I ??...
EditorialThe Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Murajiro as Ben no Naishi, in the shosa "Sode Furu Yuki Yoshino Shui," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1786. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1786. Dimen...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Yaozo III as Kusunoki Uraminosuke Disguised as a Male Fox from Tsukamoto (?), in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1786 (?). Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; Japanes...
EditorialThe Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786. Katsukawa Shunsen; Japanese, active 1780s-early 1790s. Date: 1781-1791. Dimensions: 31.5 x 14....
EditorialThe Waterfall Where Yoshitsune Washed His Horse at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washu Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki), from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri).
EditorialTomoko Yoshino became the first female president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, in October.? (Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)