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.Yokoh...
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early modern times #33 Commodore Perry
Here is my YouTube Video : Japanese History in 3 minutes #33 Commodore PerryOn July 8, 1853, four black ships appeared a...
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 knows...
early modern times #31 Financial Woes
Click here to go to the YouTube videoThe first American consul and minister to Japan, Mr.Townsend Harrisdescribed a smal...
early modern times #30 The Dog Shogun
Click here to go to the YouTube VideoIn 1651, after the death of the third shogun,Tokugawa Iemitsu, a large-scale rebell...
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 VideoWhen you think of Japanese history, you probably think of the bushi, or the samurai...
early modern times #27 Four Contact Points
Click here to go to the YouTube videoThroughout the Edo period, Japan was in a state of “sakoku”, or seclusion, with its...
early modern times #26 SAKOKU -exclusionism of the Edo shogunate-
Click here to go to YouTube videoIn his masterpiece "Moby-Dick, or The Whale" the 19th-century American authorHerman Mel...
early modern times #25 The Edo Shogunate
Click here to go to the YouTube VideoAs you know, the current capital of Japan isTokyo. With a population of 14 million,...