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

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 ... After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial rule ...

(How samurai, statesmen, and scholars shaped the Japanese tea ceremony ... of Sekigahara (1600), which cleared Tokugawa Ieyasu’s path to the shogunate and marked the beginning of the end ...

"Tea ceremony was very important for the life ... Her ancestors even served the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867. "The purpose of tea is to create a rich emotional exchange ...

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 ...

During the Edo period, Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate and 300 powerful daimyo, feudal lords, throughout the country. However, during the first fifty years of Tokugawa rule, sixty-one ...

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 ...

the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, during the Sengoku (Warring States) period (1482-1573). In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

The fifteenth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, he is quick-witted and strategic, and as skilled with shurikens as he is with his favored odachi weapon. Having benefited from a well-rounded ...