Take a stroll between Japan’s past and present – in pictures

<p>Giada Ripa’s ambitious project combines archive photography from the 1860s, a modern dominatrix – and the story of a relative who became a muse to 19th-century artists and intellectuals</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/oct/22/the-yokohama-project-b