The Edo Period marked the family’s heyday. After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial rule restored through the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the head of the clan was awarded the title ...

The shogunate was not at all happy about this ... Prostitution had a long history in Japan. Not until the Tokugawa period did the government seek to control it through licensing and surveillance.

Set in Japan’s tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) Period, the series follows the life of Toranaga, a character based on Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the founder of Tokugawa Shogunate.

In 1636, the Tokugawa shogunate built the artificial island ... British engineers on an island off Nagasaki in 1868. After a period of government management, it was acquired by Mitsubishi, led ...

While the shogunate sought to maintain political control and its ... and jigsaw with members of other groups to create a larger view of the dynamics of the Tokugawa period. Finally, students return to ...