Search Results for the Tokugawa shogunate

...Wu Hongsheng Abstract Since the early seventeenth century, Chan monks from Jiangnan and Fujian traveled to Japan amid a commercial boom in maritime East Asia starting from the late sixteenth century. After the promulgation of Sakoku (鎖国, closed country) by the Tokugawa shogunate in the 1630s...

... at the end of September 1601, and which was added to the same bound volume of manuscripts as the Relação ( Rodriguez 1601 ). It offers the European reader a clear account of the years following the Imjin War and the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, which led to the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603...

... sinology, kangaku began in earnest after the unification of Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate (Inoguchi 1984). As Japan experienced a period of peace, education began to thrive across the country. Local schools run by provincial governors ( daimyō 大名) flourished throughout the country, in stride...

... of Later Jin as an equal head-of-state entity. When the Chosŏn government created the standard for bilateral relations with Later Jin, it was based on its history of relations with Tokugawa Japan, not with the Ming. Between Chosŏn and Japan, the figure corresponding to the Japanese king was the shōgun...