Tokugawa – Page 2 – Japanese history and culture

Senso-ji, Asakusa

I visited Senso-ji earlier this month and it is by far the busiest temple I have been to. On a

Browsing the web last night I came across an interesting question. Why didn’t the Japanese find the Americas before the

The Meiji Restoration is a very important period in Japan’s history as it reestablished Imperial rule and was the catalyst

One of the most famous lords of the Sengoku Period (1467-1600). I was fascinated by Nobunaga about 6-7 years ago

This is a document analysis I did in 2010 regarding the Tokugawa Edict of 1635. It is a little long

Reading through one of my fellow bloggers pages (thankyou Stephen) reminded me of a couple of old Japanese maps I

Emperor Kammu was born in 737 as the crown prince of Emperor Konin and ascended to the throne in 781