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

The Tokugawa shogunate, in power since the beginning ... Kōmei—although he still sought to participate in the new government at the imperial court. However, elements in Satsuma and Chōshū ...

Like the government of Toyotomi Hideyoshi ... At 60, he finally achieved total power and established the Tokugawa shogunate. In just over a decade, he laid the foundations for more than two ...

and proclaimed the restoration of the emperor and the abolition of the Tokugawa shogunate. Court nobles and daimyō would form a new government in place of the old. Although its exact structure was ...

In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt the castle, which remained a key power base of the shogunate until the 19th ... Ieyasu continued to hold the reins of government. In 1611 Ieyasu had no qualms ...

As the crowd looked on that day in Nagasaki, government officials ... Hideyoshi’s successors, the Tokugawa shogunate, oversaw an era of relative peace and prosperity. Initially, many of ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate ... and his disobedience of government authority in writing ...

The city of Shizuoka's "Plastic Modeling Plan," launched by the local government in ... train and the armor worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, during the Sengoku ...

During the Great Peace of the Tokugawa era, many economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. While the shogunate sought to maintain political ... the samurai. The government's development and ...