The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century Japan. It connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the de facto capital ...

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 ... enormous houses and dressing in finery that ...

It also gives references for further reading on important topics related to Tokugawa Japan. During the Great Peace of the Tokugawa era, many economic and societal changes occurred in Japan. While the ...