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

In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt the castle, which remained a key power base of the shogunate until the 19th century. Jui-Chi Chan/Alamy After Nobunaga’s assassination in 1582, Hideyoshi avenged ...

After the collapse of the shogunate in the Meiji Restoration, however, its members had to adjust to life under a new government. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the fifteenth and last shōgun, ruled for just ...

The series is based on the real-life establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. While ShÅ gun was originally intended to be a 10-part limited series based on the celebrated novel of the same name ...

While still a young boy, the future founder of the Tokugawa shogunate was sent as a hostage first to the Oda family in neighboring Owari Province, and then to the daimyō Imagawa Yoshimoto of ...

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 ...