The Tokugawa shogunate imposed two and a half centuries of deliberate isolation and domestic peace, creating an urbanized, literate, commercially sophisticated society that would propel Japan's rapid modernization after 1868.
The Tokugawa shogunate ended in 1868 CE when the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu returned political authority to Emperor Meiji during the Meiji Restoration, ending more than two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Tokugawa Shogunate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1603 · 1683.
Accessible single-volume history of Japan covering samurai and shoguns through the Tokugawa era's transformation of the warrior class.
Sansom's foundational cultural history covers the Edo period's arts, social structure, and intellectual life.
An English pilot caught in the power struggle that founded the shogunate, c. 1600.
The wandering swordsman’s epic set in the shogunate’s founding years.