During the Edo period, Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate and 300 powerful daimyo, feudal lords, throughout the country. However, during the first fifty years of Tokugawa rule, sixty-one ...

For centuries, Japan had existed in a feudal state, a world apart from the rapid industrialisation and global power struggles ...

The order was designed to promote the Westernization of Japan just after it emerged from more than 200 years of national isolation under the feudal rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate. But women were ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

During the Great Peace of the Tokugawa era, many economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. While the shogunate sought to maintain political control and its view of an ideal society, a market ...

He was a regent or shikken of the Kamakura shogunate that lasted from the late ... It shows how Chinese monks were asked to come to Japan to help popularize Zen in the country.