Tying Her Journey to Japan's Political Shift Could Raise the Stakes . While tales of revenge can make for fascinating and empowering stories, Japan is transitioning into the Tokugawa era during ...

The Tokugawas wield no formal political power now. (Mr Tokugawa ran for a Diet seat with a liberal opposition party in 2019, but lost.) The 19th shogun’s main role is to shepherd the family legacy.

Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay. by Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado at Boulder Print PDF Sir George Sansom’s history of Japan was first published in 1932 and used in U.S. college ...

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, ...

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

In the 1570s, three warriors would rise to power and bring this chaotic period to an end. They were Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period, the era from 1603 to 1868 ruled by the Tokugawa shoguns. You are surrounded by a bustle of chattering locals twirling their umbrellas, ...

Adapting to peace. Once the Tokugawa regime was established after the conquest of Ōsaka Castle in 1615, Japan enjoyed a period of peace, disturbed only by a few peasant revolts.

"Since the Tokugawa period began in Edo, the Ogasawara family has served every shogun," Master Kiyomoto explained. "Kiyomoto Ogasawara," Kunihiko Suzuki, a current samurai student, said, "he is a ...