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Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu in ornate robes holding a bow, with arrows on his back, at the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan. Tokugawa Iemitsu Edo Castle in the Imperial Palace compound, Tokyo, features white walls, green-tiled roofs, and stone foundations, with manicured shrubs and a wooden fence in the foreground.
Hishikawa Moronobu's painting "Beauty Looking Back," featuring a woman in a red robe.
Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi Kimono, Edo period (1603–1867), Japan; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. teapot of Oribe ware writing box decorated with cranes in reeds
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Quick Facts box added; article restructured. Nov 05, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Edo Period (1615 – 1868). Aug 01, 2026
Add new Web site: University of Colorado Boulder - Tokugawa Japan: An Introductory Essay (PDF). Jan 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Colorado Community College System Pressbooks - PPSC HIS 1120: The World: 1500-Present - From the Edo Period to Meiji Restoration in Japan. Oct 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Smart History - Edo period, an introduction. Mar 27, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Asian Art Museum - Education - Historical Background of the Edo Period (1615�1868). Nov 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Simon Fraser University - Journal of Banking and Finance - Forwards and Futures in Tokugawa-Period Japan. Sep 14, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Colorado Boulder - Tokugawa Japan: An introductory essay. Jun 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Samurai Archives - Edo Period. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Edo period, an introduction. Feb 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Edo Period (1615 – 1868). Dec 04, 2023
Media added. Oct 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Crisis of Tokugawa regime in Japan. Sep 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Tokugawa Shogunate. May 17, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Edo Period - 1603-1867. Apr 07, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Edo Period. Nov 09, 2022
Add new Web site: USC Pacific Asia Museum - Edo Period Timeline. Apr 22, 2022
Add new Web site: University of Pittsburgh - Japan - Tokugawa Period (1603-1868). Jul 15, 2021
Media added. Jul 31, 2019
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art of the Edo Period. Jun 05, 2018
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Japan - Edo Period. Nov 01, 2017
Add new Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum - The Edo Period in Japanese History. Nov 01, 2017
Corrected display issue. Aug 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Asian Art Museum - Edo Period. Feb 28, 2016
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art of the Edo Period. Nov 02, 2015
Add new Web site: The Samurai Archives - SamuraiWiki - Edo Period. Nov 02, 2015
Deleted photograph. May 21, 2009
Media added. Feb 26, 2009
Added new Web site: The Library of Congress - Tokugawa Period, 1600-1867. Oct 08, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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