The Edicts of the Tokugawa Shogunate: Excerpts from The Edict of 1635 Ordering the Closing of Japan ... Toby, Ronald P. State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the ...

Setting the Context: Creating a Modern Emperor for a Modern Japan. On the surface, the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and restoration of Emperor Meiji suggests a momentous transformation of power ...

Known as Edo for more than two centuries during the feudal rule of Japan's shogunate, the city was renamed Tokyo in 1868 when the emperor claimed imperial control. Exploring by subway, my tour ...

When there were tight restrictions on entering or leaving Japan during most of the Edo ... In 1636, the Tokugawa shogunate built the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay; the Dutch Trading ...

It is the moment during our Victorian era when the old Shogunate handed the task of modernising long-isolated Japan back to the Emperor and a parliamentary democracy modelled on our own.