Timon Screech
Timon Screech is Professor of the History of Art at SOAS, University of London. He is currently on research leave in Tokyo preparing a book on Nikko.
The bawdy world of kabuki theatre
This elegant Japanese tradition with earthy origins has long provided Japanese printmakers with rewardingly risqué material
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A pilgrimage to the shrines of the shoguns
The sacred mountainside site of Nikko comprises both Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines – many of which have been restored to their 17th-century splendour
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