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

The series is based on the real-life establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. While ShÅ gun was originally intended to be a 10-part limited series based on the celebrated novel of the same name ...

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 ...

The Tokugawa shogunate, in power since the beginning of the seventeenth century, refused all these requests. In 1853, however, Commodore Matthew Perry of the US Navy, the commander of the East ...

During the Great Peace of the Tokugawa era, many economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. While the shogunate sought to maintain political control and its view of an ideal society, a market ...