The Economist

Keeping up with the Tokugawas

If not for the Meiji Restoration, Tokugawa Iehiro might be running Japan. Instead, the new head of one of Japan’s most eminent dynasties, which ruled from 1603 to 1868, spends his days overseeing its ...
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Pax Tokugawana the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 Haga Tōru ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Tokugawa Japan as a model for the world : the past as prologue -- Author's introduction : the changing image of the Tokugawa period -- Part I. Rakuchū rakugai-zu : paintings of scenes in and around ...
JSTOR Daily

The Nagasaki Trade of the Tokugawa Era: Archives, Statistics, and Management

The study of Tokugawa-period trade policy poses problems because of the poor survival of archives. Rōjū took their records with them when they vacated office, as did bugyō in Nagasaki. Trade records ...
Moviefone

Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998)

The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final ruler of the Tokugawa period. Born the seventh son of Lord Nariaki of Mito, ...