The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

To use “A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan Through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation,” you will need to download woodblock prints by Ando Hiroshige. Links to these prints are provided in the ...

Misconceptions about geisha that stem from highly sensationalized stories from Western perspectives flatten the complex cultural artistry of the profession.

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and ...

Two years after Hideyoshi's death in 1598, a provincial leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, defeated Hideyoshi's armies and took control of the recentralized military government. Ieyasu's family line ruled ...

That is not to say that Nijo lacked in protective properties entirely. Decades of war had instilled in Tokugawa Ieyasu a deep ...

During the Edo period, Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate and 300 powerful daimyo, feudal lords, throughout the country. However, during the first fifty years of Tokugawa rule, sixty-one ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

SAMURAI WISDOM―TOKUGAWA IEYASU― In the 16th century, Tokugawa Ieyasu put an end to the era of ceaseless civil wars and upheavals and ushered in a time of peace that unified Japan. As the ...

Shōgun is adapted from James Clavell's 1975 best-selling novel, inspired by the story of the famous Japanese leader Lord ...

Gallons of blood and plenty of thematic thunder distinguish Kazuya Shiraishi’s energetic action film set during the Boshin ...