Last Shogun The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Name: Last Shogun The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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ISBN: 9781568363561

ISBN-10: 1568363567

ISBN-13: 9781568363561

Edition: 2004 (Reprint)

Authors: Ryotaro Shiba, Juliet Winters Carpenter

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In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their governments. It came to its real climax with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the event which forms the centerpiece of this book. The Meiji Restoration-as history calls it-toppled the shogunate, and brought a seventeen-year-old boy emperor back from the secluded Imperial Palace in Kyoto to preside over what amounted to a political and cultural revolution. With this, Japan's extraordinary self-modernization began in earnest. Coming to power just as the Tokugawa regime was suffering the worst…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.14" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Ryotaro Shiba is a Kodansha International author.