Territoriality and collective identity in Tokugawa Japan.(Early Modernities)

Daedalus | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

Japan during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) was, by Western standards, a nation without absolutely fixed borders or clearly defined sovereignty. The emperor in Kyoto was but a symbolic suzerain; actual power within the main islands was divided between the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) and about 270 autonomous daimyo domains (han), while the peripheries - Hokkaido and its environs to the north, the Ryukyu Islands to the south - were subordinated to the Japanese polity yet not considered to be integral parts of it.

However ambiguous early modern Japan's boundaries may ...

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