In "Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan," leading postwar political scientist Masao Maruyama chronicles the ideas and debates of scholars throughout the Edo Period (1603-1868). Studies ...

Tsunenari Tokugawa, 18th generation head of the Tokugawa family. He was born and bred in Tokyo, where he has lived for 70 years. He remembers the heavy snowfalls of Tokyo winters and feels that Tokyo ...

The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken ...

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 ...

Starting with Ieyasu, the Tokugawa Shoguns made clever use of falconry beyond mere hunting. Uncover their deep connection with these majestic birds.

A small round man with a large round face the color of old bronze landed in Manhattan last week from the 23-year-old Mauretania. This personage is the head of a Japanese house which for 264 years was ...

A Modern History of Japan can be recommended for anyone interested in getting a deeper understanding of Japan's successes and failures as it has sought to become a modern state and society. Gordon ...

Here's a beguiling irony: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-98), architect of Tokugawa Japan's rigid class structure and the author, in 1587, of a firm ban (not firmly enforced) on surnames for commoners, was ...

The hourglass said to have been sent from Tokugawa Ieyasu to Mizuno Katsunari is seen at Kenchuji temple in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on June 9, 2023. (Mainichi/Saiji Fujita) FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima ...