Tokugawa Ieyasu found him incredibly intelligent and resourceful in trade and shipbuilding and ... Clavell's authentic novel in regard to the Tokugawa Shogunate and the acclaimed FX/Hulu series.

Trade was previously broken off after Hideyoshi ... At 60, he finally achieved total power and established the Tokugawa shogunate. In just over a decade, he laid the foundations for more than ...

Increases in trade were also enabled by such developments as the creation ... and proclaimed the restoration of the emperor and the abolition of the Tokugawa shogunate. Court nobles and daimyō would ...

Foreign ships appeared in the seas around Japan, occasionally coming to shore with the aim of establishing trade ties. The Tokugawa shogunate, in power since the beginning of the seventeenth ...

Instead of showing the decisive battle that secured Toranaga’s victory and ascension to the shogunate (based ... advising Lord Tokugawa and facilitating trade between the Protestant nations ...

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 ...

Ryoma Sakamoto (1835-1867), among Japan's most beloved heroes, came of age when U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships arrived demanding trade ... by the feudal Tokugawa shogunate was giving ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. HISTORY & CULTURE The samurai were a preeminent class ...

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 ...