it would require a more robust presentation of Hikone Castle’s significance within the network of daimyo feudal lords united under the national ruler, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The prefecture ...

Meiji Restoration [Image Captured By eXputer] The Meiji Restoration marked Japan’s transition from a feudal system under the Tokugawa Shogunate to a more modernized and civilized nation. It involved: ...

Commerce helped Matsuyama grow into a major castle town, ranked in the top 30 wealthiest of the more than two hundred feudal domains ... following year, the shogunate installed Matsudaira ...

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

While grand festivals like Shivratri in Mandi, Dasehra in Kullu and other local events symbolise cultural participation, their structure remains undemocratic. The Tribune, now published from ...

a political system and social order that had been in place for eight centuries with a new one. For over 800 years from around 1050BC to 221BC, China was organised as a feudal state under the Zhou ...

The feudal fortress was built by Mizuno Katsunari (1564-1651), a cousin of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), who was the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It will roll out the red carpet in June for ...

On the latter end, I’m talking about the relationship system. “Relationship system? In Onimusha?” Yes. At a certain point of Onimusha 2, you start amassing gifts and unlock a shop where you ...

Both experienced difficulties in forging a modern nation-state out of competing feudal domains run by ... where the Tokugawa shogunate put a stop to what had, until then, been a rather successful ...

The crowd assembled in the parking lot of Shimoda Community Hall is a motley crew of spectators from far and near, Edo Period (1603-1868) samurai and geisha, and a small band of Star Wars ...