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

Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial development. The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the ...

The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political unrest that lasted ... a time span overlapping the late Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa periods. The lessons ...

Japan was in the midst of a very tumultuous period. The Meiji Emperor was trying to modernise and westernise the country, ...

Both paintings evince a propagandistic move of the Meiji government to glorify its soldiers as war heroes, like the samurai who were worshiped during the Edo period. “Wave Crest Supporting the ...

This 16th-century monument, one of the last twelve authentic Japanese medieval castles ... s original military purposes. During the Meiji era (1868-1912) the castle came under threat.