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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 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
The Goseibai Shikimoku code accepted and used until the Edo period, marking militarization of legal system 1274: 1st Mongol invasion in Japan repulsed in the Battle of Bun'ei: 1281: 2nd Mongol invasion in Japan repulsed in the Battle of Kōan: 1293: 27 May: The deadly 1293 Kamakura earthquake, followed by government in-fighting, struck Japan.
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 [Nihon Shoki]. London: The Japan Society of the UK. ISBN 9780524053478. Brown, Delmer M.; Ichirō, Ishida, eds. (1979). The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan written in 1219 .
Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese, the de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect, especially that of Kyoto. However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese.
The cultural developments of the times, including kabuki, bunraku, and ukiyo-e, and practices like sankin kōtai and pilgrimages to the Ise Shrine, feature in many works set in Edo Japan. Many popular works written during or following the Edo period were also set during the same period. Kabuki plays in contemporary settings were known as sewamono.
This category represents Japanese texts written in the Edo period (1603-1867). It marks the end of what is known as "classical literature". Category:Old Japanese texts;
The forty volumes of the Shoku Nihongi cover the period from 697 to 791. The final work stands out for its use of new sources, such as Buddhist temple registers or tax revenue reports. [7] Like the Kojiki it is written in a language based on classical Chinese and on a phonetic use of Chinese characters.
Since in the Edo period Chinese culture was viewed in high regard, this made Yomihon popular among the higher classes to seem more sophisticated. In addition, to escape censorship, Yomihon was written as historical fiction to avoid using real people, while still containing commentary about the state of Japan.