Welcome to Edo
Online tour of Tokugawa-era Edo, illustrated with traditional prints
The Tokugawa Shogunate
Overview of social organization in the Tokugawa era
Dejima: The
Island Comes Back to Life
For centuries this island was Japan’s only opening to the outside world.
Now the historic Dutch settlement is being restored.
The Rural Economy of
Tokugawa Japan: Micro-Level Studies
Dry economic statistics tell a story of shifting populations, how people earned a
living, what they ate, and how they controlled family size.
The Cyclical Sensibility
of Edo-Period Japan
Shogunate policies on growth, development, and conservation.
Daimyo Flags, 15th-17th
Century
Banners and mon (crests) of daimyo, and a kuni-to-prefecture conversion
chart.
Books on Tokugawa Japan:
Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook, Cassell & Company, 2002. ISBN 0-85409-523-4
Turnbull, Stephen. Samurai Warriors. Blandford Press, 1987. ISBN 0-7131-1767-X
Jansen, Marius B. Warrior Rule in Japan. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-48404-9
Dunn, Charles J. Everyday Life in Traditional Japan, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1983.
Cooper, Michael, ed. They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640, University of California Press, 1981. ISBN 0-520-04509-2
Perrin, Noel. Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879. David R. Godine, 1979. ISBN 0-87923-773-2
Katsu, Kokichi. Teruko Craig, tr.Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. University of Arizona Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8165-1256-6
Mishima, Yukio. Five Modern No Plays, 1967. Tr. by Donald Keene. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980. ISBN 0-8048-1380-9.
Vlastos, Stephen. Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN 0-520-07203-0
Hane, Mikiso. Peasants, Rebels, & Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan. Pantheon Books, 1982. ISBN 0-394-71040-1
Mitford, A. B. Tales of Old Japan, Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000. ISBN 1-84022-510-6
Sansom, G. B. The Western World and Japan, Vintage Books, 1973. ISBN 0-394-71867-4.
Hanley, Susan B. Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture, University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-21812-4
Turnbull, Stephen and Howard Gerrard. Ashigaru 1457-1649. Osprey Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-84176-149-4