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Tokugawa Yoshimune
Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751) Japanese
SHOGUN, the eighth
TOKUGAWA to hold that office (1716–45). He was extremely capable and, though conservative, was interested in science. In 1720 he allowed European books, hitherto excluded, to be imported by Dutch traders at Nagasaki. Religious books were still banned. He also had a Dutch—Japanese dictionary compiled. The introduction of
rangaku (Dutch learning) had a profound effect on what had been a closed world. There was particular interest in medicine, cartography, and military science. Yoshimune worked to increase the shogun's authority and improve government finances.
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Shogun: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, resting place of the first significant Shogun.
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...this summer to celebrate the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shogun of Japan in the early...century. Two armours, a gift from the Tokugawa to James I of England and VI of Scotland...The presentation was made through Tokugawa Hidetada, but it was his father, Tokugawa...
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Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity...xvi + 566 pp. $55.00 cloth. In Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), Buddhism held...part in government rituals, and the Tokugawa government seems to have been little...
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The 'I Ching' in the Shinto thought of Tokugawa Japan.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship between the I Ching and Shinto in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). It might seem...section of this article examines how early Tokugawa Confucians (in particular those from...Confucian-Shinto relations during the mid-Tokugawa period through the voices of some Confucian...
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Tokugawa Political Writings.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Najita, Tetsuo, ed. Tokugawa Political Writings New York: Cambridge...with the political history of the Tokugawa regime (1603-1868) and the "restoration...Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Press...
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Yoshihiro Tokugawa Dies; Aide to Emperor Hirohito
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/3/1996; 401 words
; Yoshihiro Tokugawa, 89, the man who served as the late...The descendant of the feudal-era Tokugawa shoguns, he became chamberlain to Emperor...the morning of Aug. 15, 1945, Mr. Tokugawa blocked rebellious soldiers from seizing...
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Yoshihiro Tokugawa, Hirohito aide
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/3/1996; 393 words
; ...former Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, died Friday of respiratory failure...The descendant of the feudal-era Tokugawa shoguns had been in poor health since his retirement in 1988. Tokugawa became chamberlain to Emperor Hirohito...
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Territoriality and collective identity in Tokugawa Japan.(Early Modernities)
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Japan during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) was, by Western...main islands was divided between the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) and about 270...understood. Sketching the outlines of the Tokugawa polity in this manner will illustrate...
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Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...contribution to our understanding of life in Tokugawa Japan. Equally important, he has formulated...that the rapid pace of urbanization in Tokugawa Japan resulted from two fundamental policies of the Tokugawa regime - is well supported and persuasive...
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Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Asian and African Studies; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the ambiguous and rich territory of Tokugawa Japan would enable a study that cuts...source materials from ancient times to the Tokugawa period, including literature, erotic...monastery and military camp of pre-Tokugawa Japan to the urbanized, commercialized...
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Servants and Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...absent from the social landscape of the Tokugawa period: the urban commoners. Gary Leupp...Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan intends to fill this important...chapter of Leupp's book focuses on the Tokugawa policies that contributed to the creation...
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Tokugawa Yoshimune
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tokugawa Yoshimune Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) was a Japanese ruler, or shogun. He attempted most energetically to revitalize the Tokugawa shogunate after it began to encounter economic and other difficulties...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, or military government, which maintained effective rule over Japan from 1600 until 1867. The period from 1477 until 1568 was a time of...
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Tokugawa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tokugawa , family that held the shogunate (see shogun ) and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867. Founded by Ieyasu, the Tokugawa regime was a centralized feudalism. The Tokugawa themselves held approximately one fourth of the country...
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Tokugawa period
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Tokugawa period. The period in Japan between 1600 and 1868 when power was held by the Tokugawa clan. Because of a strong emphasis on the worth of the traditions and past glories of Japan, it led to a revived interest in Shinto , and laid the...
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Meiji Restoration
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...which forced the resignation of the last Tokugawa (1600 – 1868) shogun and...downfall of the last samurai regime, the Tokugawa, resulted largely from its inability...exchanges with Japan. Until the 1850s the Tokugawa shoguns, fearing the kind of domination...
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