(towns along highways) also arose throughout thecountryas part of this massive urbanization. While most cities averaged between 10,000 and 20,000 inhabitants, many had populations exceeding 100,000. The three main cities of Edo, Ōsaka, andKyōto, under the direct control of thebakufu, were...
map of Dejima Map of the Dutch Trading Post Dejima Near Nagasaki depicting the limited foreign presence in Japan under the sakoku policy, engraving from the book Particulars of Japan by the Dutch diplomat, historian, and merchant Isaac Titsingh, published in 1824–25. (more) sakoku Japanese ...
In premodern Japan, aristocratsoften pursuedmale and female lovers; their sexual trysts were the stuff of classical literature. To them, the biological sex of their pursuits was often less important than the objective: transcendent beauty. And while many samurai and shoguns had a primary wife for...
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books. This was back in the late 1980s. Collins wrote under the pseudonym “Max Danger,” though everyone knew that Max Danger and Robert J. Collins were the same guy. Collins’ Max Danger books remain Must Reads for anyone who finds himself, herself, on the brink of Doing Business in ...
the exhibition by his descendants, the Uesugi family, who were lords of Yonezawa for much of the Edo period and prominent nobles still in the 1920s-30s. Maybe it’s just my ignorance, but I wasn’t aware of anyone in Japan receiving investiture from the Ming outside of Ashigaka shoguns...
Japanese ganguro (“black face”) fashion was started in the 1990s and has young women tanning their skin as dark as possible, bleaching their hair, and using extremely colorful makeup in contrast to the traditional Japanese pale-skinned, dark-haired standard of beauty.[14] ...
which were the common topics of Japanese illustrative art at the time, Hokusai placed the common man into his woodblocks, moving the emphasis away from the aristocrats and to the rest of humanity. InThe Great Wave, tiny humans are tossed around under giant waves, while enormous Mt. Fuji is...
An army of priests in rich robes during three days intoned a sacred classic 10,000 times, and Iyeyasu was deified by a decree of the Mikado under a name signifying “light of the east, great incarnation of Buddha.” The less important Shoguns of the line of Tokugawa are buried in ...
aThe capital of Japan, located on the northwestern shores of Tokyo Bay, on the southeastern part of the island of Honshu; pop. 8,163,000. Formerly called Edo, it was the center of the military government under the shoguns 1603–1867. Renamed Tokyo in 1868, it replaced Kyoto as the ...