Tokugawa Shogunate: Did you mean...?

A 12th century CE illustration from an edition of the Japanese classic, the 'Tale of the Genji' or Genji Monogatari, written in the 11th century CE by Murasaki Shikibu. (Tokugawa Museum in Nagoya, Japan)

The keep of Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan. The castle was first built in 1603 CE by the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (r. 1603-1605 CE).

Let's take a tour of Edo, Japan's capital (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa Period.

The plight of 16-year-old Jerome Amakusa, the supposed leader of the rebellion, and the rebels who accompanied him are at once instantly recognisable to contemporary readers, and yet they were alien, by design, to the populace of Edo Period...