Sakoku
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Sakoku was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period, relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almos
A Buddhist statue with a hidden crucifix on the back, used by Christians in Japan to hide their real beliefs
A beacon on Taketomi, one of the Sakishima Beacons constructed in 1644 to monitor foreign shipping
A Japanese woodcut of Napoleon in captivity on Saint Helena (1815). The Japanese were so isolated that the artist depicted these British soldiers wearing the armor and weapons of 16th century Portuguese.
A model of the Dutch trading post on Dejima Island
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
Sakoku
…Sakoku was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from…
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.