Under the Togukawa shogunate (1600-1868), Chinese culture enjoyed something of a renaissance, though popular culture owed more to Japanese urban taste and urban wealth. In 1868 the Meiji Restoration brought to power rulers dedicated to the pursuit of national wealth and stre...
TheEdo periodlasted from 1603 to 1868, wherein Japan was ruled largely by the TokugawaShogunateand regionaldaimyo. This era had a distinct social hierarchy, with the warrior class and the nobility at the top, followed by the peasant class, the craftsmen or working class and the merchants. Whi...
Law and justice in Tokugawa Japan: materials for the history of Japanese law and justice under the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603-1867 Contents: Part 4-A: Contract: commercial customary law - Part 4-C: Contract: commercial customary law - Part 6-G: Property: legal Precedents - Part 8-A: Persons...
9) Japan's feudal era and how it was characterized by the emergence and dominance of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai. 10) The start of the Muromachi period and the Ashikaga shogunate 11) The Higashiyama culture is a segment of Japanese culture originated and promoted in the 15th ce...
Japanis an island nation located in East Asia, and its islands can be found in several large bodies of water: the Sea of Okhotsk, the Pacific Ocean, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan. The main islands of Japan are called Shikoku, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Honshu; however, there ...
Crucifixion in Japan took various forms and was used to punish thieves, threats to public order, and religious enemies alike. It's unclear when crucifixion ...
Finally at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Ieyasu’s samurai won and their master was established as Shogun. The Tokugawa Shogunate held power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, ruling over a unified country which was completely closed off to the outside world. As part of the Meiji Resto...
In 1853 a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted two and a half centuries, was at an end. What lay behind the sudden collapse of samurai rule? Watanabe Hiroshi...
The roots of Ashikaga power go back even before theKamakura period(1185 - 1334), which preceded the Ashikaga shogunate. During the Kamakura era, Japan was ruled by a branch of the ancient Taira clan, which lost theGenpei War(1180 - 1185) to the Minamoto clan, but managed to seize power...
The Edo Period under theTokugawa Shogunatefrom 1603–1868 brought stability and peace to Japan, bringing the ninja story to a close. Ninja skills and legends survived, though, and were embellished to enliven the movies, games, and comic books of today....