The bewigged officers and ragged sailors add a theatrical element and will help bring the voyage more alive to younger viewers.

BBC: The Ship

The robed and bewigged lords of the bench may soon be more of a media fixture than the rough courtroom sketch.

ECONOMIST: Broadcasting bits of court cases might be a good idea

Two segments of a late Edo Period scroll now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin show bewigged Dutchmen smoking, playing billiards and tending their vegetable patch.

ECONOMIST: Japanese art