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Who was the Emperor of Japan in 1853? Who held the power in feudal Japan? Who overthrew the Japanese Shogun in 1867? What were Emperor Hirohito's tactics before WW2? What was the political power of Emperor Hirohito? Who were the three samurai who unified Japan and led to the Tokugawa era...
The first men to be called "daimyo" sprang from the shugo class, who were governors of the different provinces of Japan during theKamakura Shogunatefrom 1192 to 1333. This office was first invented by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate. A shugo was appointed by the ...
These shrewd leaders led their armies to multiple victories on the battlefield that put the island nation closer to unification after decades of political turmoil.
but the role is a weak shadow of the very real Thomas Blake Glover, known as the Scottish Samurai.Born in Fraserburgh, Glover travelled to Japan as a young man in the mid-19th century, where he helped the samurai topple the military leader, the Shogun and returned the Emperor to power....
The Good Guy: Washizu Taketoki is essentially a Macbeth-type character - if Macbeth had lived in Feudal Japan. Washizu is a revered Samurai general. After encountering a spirit who predicts Washizu will take the place of Lord Tsuzuki, the hero makes a fatal error: he tells his wife, Asaj...
The Good Guy: Washizu Taketoki is essentially a Macbeth-type character - if Macbeth had lived in Feudal Japan. Washizu is a revered Samurai general. After encountering a spirit who predicts Washizu will take the place of Lord Tsuzuki, the hero makes a fatal error: he tells his wife, Asa...
The adventures of the Englishman who opened the East. This book illuminates a Jacobean world whose horizons were rapidly expanding and a Japan that was still unknown to the rest of the world. In the winter of 1611, a letter was received by the merchants of the East India Company. The fact...
They replaced the government-run workshops Zobussho (Zōbussho) 造仏所 of the prior Asuka and Nara eras, which were closed down shortly before the capital transferred from Nara to Heiankyo 平安京 (Heiankyō; modern-day Kyoto) in +794. One of the primary goals of the transfer was to ...
The findings, published recently in the journalScience Advances, challenge the longstanding belief that there were two main ancestral groups in Japan: the indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherer-fishers and the rice-farming migrants from east Asia.