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By the mid-17th century, neo-Confucianism was Japan's dominant legal philosophy and contributed directly to the development of the kokugaku (national learning) school of thought. A Karakuri puppet Moji-kaki doll made by Tanaka Hisashige. Using mechanical power, a puppet dips a brush into ink and writes a character on paper. 19th century
17th-century executions by Japan (20 P) L. 17th-century Japanese literature (2 C, 3 P) M. 17th-century military history of Japan (23 P) P. 17th-century Japanese ...
Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").
Yoshiwara (吉原) was a famous yūkaku (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1617, Yoshiwara was one of three licensed and well-known red-light districts created during the early 17th century by the Tokugawa shogunate, alongside Shimabara in Kyoto in 1640 [1] and Shinmachi in Osaka. [1]
Modern geographical knowledge of the world was transmitted to Japan during the 17th century through Chinese prints of Matteo Ricci's maps as well as globes brought to Edo by chiefs of the VOC trading post Dejima. This knowledge was regularly updated through information received from the Dutch, so that Japan had an understanding of the ...
A 17th-century red seal ship of the Araki trading family, sailing out of Nagasaki for Annam (Vietnam) Red seal ships usually ranged in size between 500 and 750 tons, a size equal or superior to European galleons , but inferior to that of the massive Portuguese carracks or to Manila galleons , which were often in the vicinity of 1,000 and 2,000 ...
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.
17th century Dutch Dejima, Japan A Dutchman with his slave at Dejima (18th-century painting by unknown artist, British Museum collection) A 2017 model of Dejima in the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden A central part of reconstructed Dejima Dejima and Nagasaki Bay, circa 1820. Two Dutch ships and numerous Chinese trading junks are depicted.