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Also Known As Edo period
Date 1603 - 1867
Location Japan

Did You Know?

  • One of the primary goals of the Tokugawa shogunate was to keep Christianity away from Japan, and the 300,000 Japanese Christians were heavily persecuted. Confucianism was the promoted religion.
  • The Tokugawa period is regarded as the final period of Japanese traditional government (the shogunate), preceding the onset of Japanese westernization.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Iemitsu
Tokugawa period; Tokyo
Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi
Kimono, Edo period (1603–1867), Japan; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
teapot of Oribe ware
writing box decorated with cranes in reeds
How Beauty Looking Back reflects Japanese history
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Iwasa Matabei
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