And so, with one final view of Lord Toranaga standing alone at the edge of the world, FX’s “Shōgun” comes to a poignant, if abrupt end. Viewers who expected the old-school Japanese epic to end with a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The events of the series begin with the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was the second Great Unifier of ...

OSAKA -- A letter penned by Edo-period tea master and landscape architect Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) indicating the possibility that there was a plan to move the Tokugawa shogunate headquarters from ...

SHIZUOKA -- Kunouzan Toshogu Museum here aims to use internet crowdfunding campaigns to sponsor the restoration of a total of 63 suits of armor in storage once worn by Tokugawa shoguns. The first ...

Sengoku Jidai was a period in Japan's history when every samurai and their granddaddy wanted to be the shogun, chief of warriors and the real authority in the country. Several notable names managed to ...

Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo period in Japan lasted from 1603 to 1867/1868. During this time the country was ...

For Japan, 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration; the name given to the events of 1868 that saw the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate (or bakufu) and the creation of a new ...