During the Great Genna Martyrdom, missionaries and laypeople alike were burned alive or beheaded. The violence coincided with ...

The Tokugawa shogunate was founded about 250 years earlier ... Perry to the Emperor of Japan (1852-1853) Imagine that you are the Shōgun and write a reply to President Fillmore. Pretend you are a ...

In 1853 and 1854, United States commodore Matthew ... and their allied samurai clans led a movement that toppled the Tokugawa ...

In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry and his American fleet sailed into Japanese waters and began to push for trade concessions, helping to compel the government by the following year to open its ...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the first to achieve this goal, unifying Japan by 1590; beginning in 1603, Hideyoshi’s successors, the Tokugawa shogunate, oversaw an era of relative peace and prosperity.

Rise of the Ronin shifts from supernatural Souslikes to historical realism, offering a Soulslite experience with less ...

Following the July 1853 visit of Commodore Perry ... Satsuma daimyō Shimazu Nariakira successfully petitioned the Tokugawa shogunate to lift the prohibition on the construction of large ocean-going ...

For example, in 1853, a Mrs. Margaret Douglass of Norfolk, Virginia, "being greatly interested in the religious and moral instruction of colored children and finding that the Sunday school where ...

37} and for throwing over democratic ways, reverting to something much stronger, more Japanese—i.e., the military Shogunate or something very much like it. Paving the way for just that ...

The national treasure was originally dedicated to the shrine by the Ashikaga family of the Muromachi Shogunate in the Nanbokucho Period (1336-1392). Its silver-plated sheath painted with gold and ...

On July 8, 1853, four large ships sailed into the Uraga Channel ... the Governor of Uraga and the Shogunate Minister from Edo. The bakufu instructed the lords of Uraga and surrounding domains to ...

In 1853 and 1854, United States commodore Matthew C ... The domains of Satsuma, Chōshū, and their allied samurai clans led a movement that toppled the Tokugawa shogunate in the name of the young Meiji ...