Tokugawa Japan
Two and a half centuries of peace: the Edo period and the world the shoguns built.
Articles on Tokugawa Japan (2)
Early Modern History
Sakoku: Inside Japan's Closed-Country Policy and Its Four Gates to the World, 1633–1853
How Japan's Tokugawa shoguns sealed the country after 1633, and the four controlled gateways that kept trade...
Early Modern History
How the Tokugawa Shogunate Crafted Japan’s Edo Period Stability
How the Tokugawa shogunate built two centuries of peace in Edo-period Japan through sankin-kōtai, a fixed...
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