Edo period
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The Edo period, also known as the Tokugawa period, is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regio
Tokugawa Ieyasu, first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate
"En masse Attendance of Daimyo at Edo Castle on a Festive Day" from the Tokugawa Seiseiroku, National Museum of Japanese History
Honda Tadakatsu, a famous fudai daimyō of the early Edo period.
"Folding Screen Depicting Scenes of the Attendance of Daimyo at Edo Castle". National Museum of Japanese History.
Meiji Restoration
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The Meiji Restoration, referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration, was a political event that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji and led to the westernisation of Jap
Edo period
…trade by United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry, beginning the Bakumatsu ("end of the bakufu") era. The Edo period came to an end in 1868 with the Meiji Restoration and the Boshin War, which restored imperial rule to Japan. A revolution took place from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which existed with the…
Portrait of Emperor Meiji in 1880
A Japanese print depicting the arrival of Perry's fleet (1854)
Arimura Jisaemon preparing to decapitate Ii Naosuke (1860)
Japanese print by Utagawa Kuniteru III depicting "Takeda Kōunsai at Mt. Tsukuba" under the banner of sonnō jōi.