Edo-Tokyo Museum Reopens with “Great Edo” Exhibition Showcasing Its Collection Highlights

The entrance to the renovated Edo-Tokyo Museum. (© Nippon.com)

The entrance gates are inspired by the torii gates of Japanese shrines. (© Nippon.com)

Artistic treasures by Sharaku, Hokusai, and Utamaro can be found in the exhibition. (© Nippon.com)

A photo spot with fireworks projected onto an Edo night sky. (© Nippon.com)

Tools and uniforms of the Edo firefighters who were local heroes. (© Nippon.com)

These dolls depicting the birth of a baby were part of a samurai family’s dowry. (© Nippon.com)

The nineteenth-century epic bestseller Nansō Satomi hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin. Part of this long work has appeared in an ongoing English translation under the main title Eight Dogs by Glynne Walley. (© Nippon.com)