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The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16413-8. Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, ed. (2008). Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America. ISBN 978-0-295-98786-6. Stephen Mansfield (2009). Tokyo: a Cultural ...
The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty (神奈川条約, Kanagawa Jōyaku) or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (日米和親条約, Nichibei Washin Jōyaku), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854.
The 1710 mission was one of the largest; in this scroll a Japanese printer depicts Ryukyuan guards and a music band escorting the envoy and his officials through Edo.. Over the course of Japan's Edo period, the Ryūkyū Kingdom sent eighteen [1] missions to Edo (琉球江戸上り, ryūkyū edo nobori, "lit. 'the going up of Ryūkyū to Edo'), the capital of Tokugawa Japan.
Edo (Japanese: 江戸, lit. 'bay-entrance" or "estuary'), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. [2]Edo, formerly a jōkamachi (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the de facto capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, after finishing his conquest of Honshu in 1600, chose Edo as a new capital. Japan's monarchy at Kyoto became a symbolic entity, as the country's real power was given to Edo's Tokugawa Shogunate. By the 1650s, it became Japan's largest city, and by 1720, it was the world's largest.
Tokugawa era, an alternative term for the Edo period, 1603 to 1868; Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal regime of Japan during the Edo period Tokugawa clan, a powerful family of Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), most notable member of the Tokugawa clan and founder of its shogunate