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Edo period (江戸時代 Edo-jidai), also called the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai), is the time from roughly 1600 through 1868 in history of Japan.[1] These years come after the Azuchi-Momoyama period and before the Meiji Restoration and the development of modern Japan.[2]
The period is marked the governance of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was functionally established at Edo in 1603 by the Tokugawa Ieyasu.[3]
The 15th and last shogun was Tokugawa Yoshinobu.[4]
The period ended with the Meiji Restoration, which was the restoration of imperial rule. The Edo period is also known as the beginning of the early modern period of Japan.[5]
The period was marked by the influence of neo-Confucianism.
In this time Shinto developed as well.[6]
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Timeline [change]
In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara establishes a context for the next two centuries. Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats a coalition of daimyo and establishes hegemony over most of Japan.[7]
- 1603 ( Keichō 8): The emperor appoints Ieyasu as shogun.[7]
- 1605 ( Keichō 10): Ieyasu resigns as shogun and is succeeded by his son Tokugawa Hidetada.
- 1607 ( Keichō 12): Korean Joseon Dynasty sends an embassy to Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1611 ( Keichō 16): Ryūkyū Islands become a vassal state of Satsuma domain.
- 1613 ( Keichō 16): "Keichō Embassy" (慶長使節) to Americas and Europe.[8]
- 1614 ( Keichō 17): Shogunate bans Christianity from Japan.
- 1615 ( Keichō 18): Battle of Osaka; Ieyasu destroys Osaka Castle and the Toyotomi clan.[7]
- June 1, 1616 (Genna 2, 17th day of the 4th month): Ieyasu died at Suruga Castle.[9]
- 1623 (Genna 9): Tokugawa Iemitsu becomes the third shogun.[7]
- 1633 (Kan'ei 12) Shogunate forbids travelling abroad and reading foreign books.
- 1635 (Kan'ei 12): Shogunate formalizes the system of mandatory alternate residence (sankin kotai) in Edo.
- 1637 (Kan'ei 14): Shimabara Rebellion (1637-38) mounted by overtaxed peasants.
- 1638 (Kan'ei 15): Shogunate forbids ship building.
- 1639 (Kan'ei 16): Edicts establish a policy of National Seclusion (Sakoku).[7]
- 1641 (Kan'ei 18): Shogunate bans all foreigners, except Chinese and Dutch, who may only live in Nagasaki.[7]
- 1650 (Kei'an 3): With peace, there evolved a new kind of noble, literate warrior according to bushido ("way of the warrior").
- 1657 (Meireki 3): T The Great Fire of Meireki destroys most of the city of Edo.
- 1700 (Genroku 13), Kabuki and ukiyo-e become popular.
- December 16, 1707 (Hōei 4, 23nd day of the 11th month): Eruption of Mt. Fuji,[10]
- 1774 (An'ei 3): Kaitai shinsho, the first complete Japanese translation of a Western medical work, is published by Sugita Gempaku and Maeno Ryotaku.[11]
- 1787 (Tenmei 7): Matsudaira Sadanobu becomes the shogunate's senior official (rōjū).[12]
- 1792 (Kansei 4): Russian envoy Adam Laxman arrives at Nemuro in eastern Ezo (now Hokkaidō).[13]
- 1804 (Kyōwa 4): Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanov reaches Nagasaki and unsuccessfully seeks the establishment of trade relations with Japan.[14]
- 1837 (Tenpō 8): Ōshio Heihachirō [15] and Ikuta Yorozu[16] lead uprising was known as Tempo Jiken
- 1841 (Tenpō 12): Tempo Reforms[17]
- 1854 (Kaei 7): Commodore Perry force Japanese agreement to the Treaty of Kanagawa. The chief Japanese negotiator was Hayashi Akira.[18]
- 1855 (Kaei 8): Russia and Japan establish diplomatic relations.
- September 5–6, 1864 (Genji 1, 5th-6th day of the 8th month): Bombardment of Shimonoseki by British, French, Dutch and American warships[19]
In 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns, the Tokugawa shogunate ends. This marks the end of the Edo period. Emperor Meiji establishes his Imperial capital in Edo, which is renamed Tokyo ("eastern capital").[20]
Gallery [change]
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Tokugawa Ieyasu, first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
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A yagura, or turret, at Edo Castle in Tokyo.
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Hasekura Tsunenaga, a Samurai and Japan's first official ambassador to the Americas and Europe, 1613-1620.
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Matsumoto Castle in Nagano Prefecture
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Terakoya, private educational school for girls
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Wadokei, Japanese-made clockwatch, 18th century.
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Kaitai Shinsho, Japan's first treatise on Western anatomy, published in 1774.
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849).
Economy Trade Deplomacy [change]
In the Edo era, it developed very much economically, and accumulation of the capital became the driving force of the economic development after the Meiji Restoration.
Because many daimyos stayed at the inn along the highway by daimyo's alternate-year residence in Tokyo, the circulation of the economy became active.
The Shogunate performed a policy of secusion as a foreign policy.
Therefore trade relations carried out by the Shogunate are only Shin (清 Shin) in Nagasaki, and the Netherland in Dejima.
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References [change]
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Edo-jidai," Japan Encyclopedia, p. 167.
- ↑ Library of Congress Country Studies, Japan (LOC), "Tokugawa Period"; retrieved 2012-5-1.
- ↑ Hall, John Whitney. (1991). Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times, pp. 160-164.
- ↑ Hall, pp. 262-264.
- ↑ Hall, pp. 265-272.
- ↑ Hall, pp. 181-185.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Hall, p. 359.
- ↑ "Japan, Spain to Seek UNESCO Heritage Ratification," Yomiuri Shimbun. October 18, 2011; retrieved 2011-11-17; note that Keichō means the Japanese era name (nengō) for the years from 1596 through 1615.
- ↑ Titsingh, p. 410.
- ↑ Shizuoka University website: 宝永四年（1707）噴火 (Japanese); Titsingh, Isaac.. (1834). Annales des empereurs du jpaon, p. 416.; retrieved 2011-12-12.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Kaitai shinsho" at p. 167.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Matsudaira Sadanobu" at p. 617; Hall, p. 360.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Laxman, Adam Erikovitch" at p. 593; Hall, p. 360.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich" at p. 788.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Ōshio Heihachirō" at p. 761.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Ikuta Yorozu" at p. 382.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Tempō no Kikin" at p. 957; Hall, p. 360.
- ↑ Sewall, John. (1905). The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas, p. lxiv; Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds, p. 178 n11.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Shimonoseki" at p. 862.
- ↑ Hall, p. 360.
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