Literacy and education were by no means monopolized by the elite in Tokugawa Japan. Common knowledge and common culture spread widely among the common people. This widening of the knowledge base ...

Iehiro noted that Edo culture is especially admired ... “I am dreaming of organizing a Tokugawa-themed display outside Japan, showing pieces from across the globe.” ...

Much of modern Japan formed under the Tokugawa rule from business, culture, and arts. The first changes the Tokugawa Bakufu wrought were strict control over foreign trade, a rigid class structure ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate ... of Bushido on Japanese culture persisted.

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

Envision Japan’s greatest samurai battle in Sekigahara, where Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari’s armies fought. The battle of Sekigahara played a big role in Japanese history, helping ...

Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998). Yonemoto, Marcia, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) (Berkeley, CA: ...