early modern times #34 Topple the Shogunate!
YouTube video of this episode ishere! Japan in turmoil:In the 1860s, a force emerged to overthrow the Edo shogunate. Yok...
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early modern times #33 Commodore Perry
Here is my YouTube Video : Japanese History in 3 minutes #33 Commodore Perry On July 8, 1853, four black ships appeared ...
early modern times #32 The Kasei Culture
Click here to go to YouTube Video of this episode :-) “Having as much of this serenity as possible, even though one know...
early modern times #31 Financial Woes
Click here to go to the YouTube video The first American consul and minister to Japan, Mr.Townsend Harrisdescribed a sma...
early modern times #30 The Dog Shogun
Click here to go to the YouTube Video In 1651, after the death of the third shogun,Tokugawa Iemitsu, a large-scale rebel...
early modern times #29 The Genroku Culture
Here is my YouTube video of this episode. By the second half of the 17th century, the political situation had stabilized...
early modern times #28 Bushi in the Edo Era
Click here to go to the YouTube Video When you think of Japanese history, you probably think of the bushi, or the samura...
early modern times #27 Four Contact Points
Click here to go to the YouTube video Throughout the Edo period, Japan was in a state of “sakoku”, or seclusion, with it...
early modern times #26 SAKOKU -exclusionism of the Edo shogunate-
Click here to go to YouTube video In his masterpiece "Moby-Dick, or The Whale" the 19th-century American authorHerman Me...
early modern times #25 The Edo Shogunate
Click here to go to the YouTube Video As you know, the current capital of Japan isTokyo. With a population of 14 million...