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Current Issues
"Bushidó or Bull? A Medieval Historian’s Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition" - article by Karl F. Friday in
The History Teacher
magazine
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior
Castles of Japan
Castles of Japan II
CHART
-->"Government of the Tokugawa Period"
China, Japan, and the West - The Ming, Qing, and the Tokugawa
Chronology of Japanese History - detailed
"East Asia, to 1700" - Frank E. Smitha
Edo Japan, A Virtual Tour
Electronic Samurai
Emperors of the
Sangoku
, the "Three Kingdoms," of India, China, & Japan
Feudal Japan
Feudalism in Japan and Europe
History of Japan - Concise Chronological Timeline
A History of the Samurai
The Imperial Family of Japan
Introduction to Medieval Japan - 1185-1600
Japan Atlas - Historic Sites
Medieval Japan
The National Museum of Japanese History
Origins of the Samurai
Periods of Japanese History
Rulers/Kings of China, Southeast Asia, and Japan
A Samurai Gallery
Samurai Tour
Timeline
of Japanese History
Tour of Edo
Tokugawa Japan
Virtual Edo
WWW-VL extensive web links on the History of Japan
Old Western Texts on Japan
1552:
St. Francis Xavier - Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe
1617:
Hsu Kuang-chi - Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci
1635:
Closed Country Edict
1639:
Exclusion of the Portuguese
1680:
Père du Halde - Teaching Science to the Manchu Emperor
1782:
Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token - Greater Learning for Women
1844:
Correspondence between William II of Holland and Tokugawa Ieyoshi,the Shogun of Japan
1852:
President Fillmore's letter to the emperor
1853:
An aggressive daimyo response to the American proposals
1853:
A conciliatory daimyo response to the American proposals
1854:
Japanese Reply to President Fillmore’s Letter and Response of Commodore Perry
1854:
The Treaty of Kanagawa
1857:
Townsend Harris and the Bakufu - negotiating a trade treaty
1858:
The Harris Treaty
1868:
The Charter Oath and Constitution
