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

Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious enough to fit the bill. Unlike other noble homes of the day, Tokugawa's gleaming white structure – decorated with ornate wood carvings ...

Tokugawa vowed to siege Osaka Castle if his supporters refused to back down. He later signed an armistice after placing the heir’s mother, Yodo-dono—Lady Ochiba (Fumi Nikaido) on Shōgun—in ...

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun ... who plays Ieyasu, at Nagoya Castle and elsewhere. “The long-living Ieyasu is often likened to a dirty, sly raccoon dog in history dramas ...

NAGOYA—The famed “rebirth” of a pair of 17th century gold “shachihoko” tiger-fish ornaments on Nagoya Castle that were ...

The title role in the TV series "Shogun," based on James Clavell's eponymous novel, was modeled on Tokugawa Ieyasu. We reveal his secret strategy for building Edo, Nagoya, Osaka and Nijo-jo Castles ...

To use “A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan Through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation,” you will need to download woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige. Links to these prints are provided in the ...

“Tokugawa Japan: Order in International Relations: Isolation.” Asian Topics: An Online Resource for Asian History and Culture. New York: Columbia University, 2002-2016. Edo Zu Byōbu. 1636 Arrival of ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...