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Bookmark or Share- Meiji Restoration: Edo Period & Tokugawa Shogunate | HISTORYThe Meiji Restoration of 1868 toppled Japan’s long‑reigning Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo Period as U.S. gunboat diplomacy forced Japan into the modern era.
- Tokugawa Period (1603 – 1868) | Japan ModuleHistorically considered the most stable and peaceful period in Japan's premodern history, the Tokugawa Period—also known as the Edo Period, after the city in which the shōgun had his capital—began with Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory in 1600 over Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s forces at the Battle of Sekigahara, and the consolidation of political ...
- Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868) | Essay - The Metropolitan Museum ...In urban Edo, which assumed a distinctive character with its revival after a devastating fire in 1657, a witty, irreverent expression surfaced in the literary and visual arts, giving rise to the Kabuki theater and the well-known woodblock prints of the “floating world,” or ukiyo-e.
- Japanese art - Tokugawa, Edo, Ukiyo-e | BritannicaIeyasu completed his rise to power when he defeated the remaining Toyotomi forces in 1615. These events marked the beginning of more than 250 years of national unity, a period known as either Tokugawa, after the ruling clan, or Edo, after the new political centre.
- Edo culture | Samurai, Shoguns & Ukiyo-e | BritannicaEdo culture, Cultural period of Japanese history corresponding to the Tokugawa period of governance (1603–1867). Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun, chose Edo (present-day Tokyo) as Japan’s new capital, and it became one of the largest cities of its time and was the site of a thriving urban.
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