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The dog shogun : The personality and policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
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ISBN: 0824829786 9780824829780 082483030X 9780824830304 1435665880 0824864689 Year: 2006 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press

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Tsunayoshi (1646-1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history. Viewed by many as a tyrant, his policies were deemed eccentric, extreme, and unorthodox. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun, by which he is still popularly known today. However, Tsunayoshi's rule coincides with the famed Genroku era, a period of unprecedented cultural growth and prosperity that Japan would not experience again until the mid-twentieth century. It was under Tsunayoshi that for the first time in Japanese history considerable numbers of ordinary townspeople were in a financial position to acquire an education and enjoy many of the amusements previously reserved for the ruling elite. Based on a masterful re-examination of primary sources, this exciting new work by a senior scholar of the Tokugawa period maintains that Tsunayoshi's notoriety stems largely from the work of samurai historians and officials who saw their privileges challenged by a ruler sympathetic to commoners. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey's insightful analysis of Tsunayoshi's background sheds new light on his personality and the policies associated with his shogunate. The Dog Shogun is a thoroughly revisionist work of Japanese political history that touches on many social, intellectual, and economic developments as well. As such it promises to become a standard text on late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Japan.


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De V.O.C. op zoek naar de goud- en zilvereilanden : de waar gebeurde avonturen van het schip de Breskens in het jaar 1643 in Japan.
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ISBN: 9090107320 Year: 1997 Publisher: Utrecht Vos Holland

Le puissant royaume du Japon : la description de François Caron (1636).
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ISBN: 2906462918 9782906462915 Year: 2003 Volume: *18 Publisher: Paris Chandeigne

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