The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

At 60, he finally achieved total power and established the Tokugawa shogunate. In just over a decade, he laid the foundations for more than two centuries of peace during the Edo period (1603–1868).

While the Tokugawa shogunate held power in Japan in the Edo period (1603–1868), there were hundreds of domains with a degree of regional autonomy. Here we list the leading domains by economic scale.

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...

The shogunate system itself would last for 700 years. A procession of daimyo (feudal lords) in Edo ... chaotic period to an end. They were Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

This new special exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Museum focuses on how the Tokugawa shogunate was formed ... ruling Tokugawa shoguns throughout the Edo period (1603-1868), not all of them were ...

This exhibition shows the prosperous Edo in the era of the Shogunate, and flourishing Beijing in the pre-Qing Dynasty period from different ... branches of the Tokugawa (Shogunate) family.

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps ... Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, and the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, but the architectural details of the castle during the early Edo ...

from the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, at the start of the seventeenth century, to the Meiji Restoration, of 1868. The familiar pleasures of Chinese-influenced, black-and-white literati painting ...

People should use the opportunity of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate to consider the culture and social stability of the Edo Period, participants of a symposium in ...

The Edo Period marked the family’s heyday. After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial rule restored through the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the head of the clan was awarded the title ...