Far from the battlefield brute, Ishida Mitsunari was a brilliant strategist who dared to challenge Tokugawa Ieyasu—and paid the ultimate price at Sekigahara.

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 ...

To extend the lesson, students may research the main roads and waterways of the Tokugawa period. Maps of the Tōkaidō Road and other main highways can be found online; students may want to compare ...

This module focuses on the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868. Tokugawa Japan materials: “Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay,” by Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado “A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan ...

Over the next three years, Tokugawa consolidated his power, finally establishing himself as shogun in 1603, the first in a dynasty that would govern the destiny of Japan until 1868. ( How to spend ...

Japan’s fourth most populous city, Nagoya, is in many ways analogous to Chicago, both in location and temperament. Smack-dab in the middle of Japan, the city is known as an industrial hub, where ...

Step into Edo, a city of samurai, merchants, and geisha. Discover the rhythm of life in Tokugawa Japan, where strict order met vibrant culture. Trump announces Israel, Iran ceasefire days after US ...

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 ...

During the Tokugawa era (A.D. 1603–1868), much of Japan was ruled by the country’s military governor, called the shogun, or his retainers. The rest was divided up into several hundred ...

"Edo and Kyo: The Townscape in Asia" contains more than 160 items, among them paintings, maps, and costumes, that tell the story of this most enigmatic of cities.

The draconian Sakoku-rei or Seclusion Edict, as ordered by Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, in 1636, would seal off the country from the outside world for the next two centuries. Along with banning foreign ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Kindergarteners here on June 9 got to see a some 400-year-old hourglass said to have been sent from Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first ...