Tokugawa
Edo period rulers
Tokugawa refers to the dynasty of shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868, or to this period of Japanese history.
The Tokugawa shogunate unified Japan after centuries of civil war and maintained peace through strict social hierarchy and isolation from the outside world.
Tokugawa-era art, the Tokugawa period.
The name derives from the clan that held power, founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Samurai honor system
- katanaCurved Japanese fighting blade
- roninFeudal drifter-warrior
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
- daimyoJapanese feudal landowner
wakizashi · kenjutsu · iaido · dojo · armor · bannerman · martial arts · retainer
Tokugawa-era isolation policy
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- self-sufficiencyIndependence from outside aid
Japan's military supreme commander
- daimyoJapanese feudal landowner
- sankin-kotaiRequired periodic capital residence
- castle townCommunity surrounding a stronghold
- hereditaryPassed through generations
Ritualistic performance for show
- ukiyo-eJapanese woodblock print tradition
- geishaJapanese arts entertainer
- bunrakuMulti-puppeteer Japanese theater
- haikuJapanese seventeen-syllable verse
floating world · woodblock prints · merchant class · tea ceremony
bushido
Samurai honor system
- katanaCurved Japanese fighting blade
- roninFeudal drifter-warrior
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
daimyo · wakizashi · kenjutsu · iaido · dojo · armor · bannerman · martial arts · retainer · lordship
sakoku
Tokugawa-era isolation policy
shogun
Japan's military supreme commander
- daimyoJapanese feudal landowner
- sankin-kotaiRequired periodic capital residence
- castle townCommunity surrounding a stronghold
kabuki
Ritualistic performance for show
- ukiyo-eJapanese woodblock print tradition
- geishaJapanese arts entertainer
- bunrakuMulti-puppeteer Japanese theater
haiku · floating world · woodblock prints · merchant class · tea ceremony
castle town
Community surrounding a stronghold
- Royal DynastiesBourbon, Habsburg, Romanov, Hanover, Ottoman
- Asian historyancient China, China, empresses, shoguns, Chinese civilization
- Edo Japanshogun, samurai, shogunate, daimyo, sakoku
- Japanese Historyshogunate, samurai, shogun, daimyo, Muromachi period
- Old Japansamurai, shogun, daimyo, katana, kimono
- Shogunate Japanshogun, shogunate, samurai, daimyo, bushido
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tokugawa ShogunateJapan's 1600s military government