The study of Tokugawa-period trade policy poses problems because of the poor survival of archives. Rōjū took their records with them when they vacated office, as did bugyō in Nagasaki. Trade records ...

The Chubu region, situated in central Japan between the major hubs of Tokyo and Kyoto, offers travelers a profound ...

If not for the Meiji Restoration, Tokugawa Iehiro might be running Japan. Instead, the new head of one of Japan’s most eminent dynasties, which ruled from 1603 to 1868, spends his days overseeing its ...

Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college classrooms into the 1980s. In it, he described the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) as an era of oppressive “feudal ...

ICREA researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies of the UAB, Rebekah Clements, has received an ERC Consolidator ...

About the book: What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai ...

Tokugawa Japan as a model for the world : the past as prologue -- Author's introduction : the changing image of the Tokugawa period -- Part I. Rakuchū rakugai-zu : paintings of scenes in and around ...

Looking for the soul of modern Japan on an ancient road once traveled by poets and samurai Tony Perrottet; Photographs by Hiroshi Okamoto Spanning 92 feet across the Daiya River, the nearly ...

Westworld the show may be named after Delos's Wild West park, but after Sunday's "Akane No Mai" episode, everyone is talking about Shogun World, the extra-violent, samurai-filled park that Maeve, ...