Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate ... Bushido was a strict hierarchy that emphasized obedience ...

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

Studying the Tokugawa era reveals many seeming contradictions ... Economic growth thus contributed to the inversion of the status hierarchy enshrined in the “four class system.” An increasingly ...

Also students will benefit from gaining some prior understanding of the East Asian tributary system, unification in Japan, and Tokugawa changes to political and social order such as local to ...