Basic Info

First Air: March 29, 2018

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 45

Last Episode

Name: Calligraphy Day

Season: 4, Episode: 9

Air Date: 2022-03-31

Runtime: 5 min

We visit a terakoya, a school teaching reading and writing. Today the young students have come dressed in their finest, and are busy putting brush to paper to show off their calligraphy skills.

Ukiyoe EDO-LIFE

2018 4 seasons 45 episodes

Overview

Centuries ago, Tokyo was known as Edo. More than a million people enjoyed life in this small but abundant city. They live on in ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Each episode is a deep dive into a single print, and an exploration of the soul of Old Tokyo. We examine works by artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige not just for their aesthetic and historical value, but for the stories they tell of everyday life. That is how the people of Edo themselves enjoyed this mass-produced medium.