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Name: Tokugawa Yoshimune
Birth Date: 1684
Death Date: 1751
Place of Birth: Japan
Place of Death: Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: ruler, shogun

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Biography of Tokugawa Yoshimune
387 words, approx. 1 pages
Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751) was a Japanese ruler, or shogun. He attempted most energetically to revitalize the Tokugawa shogunate after it began to encounter economic and other difficulties in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Established in...


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Tokugawa Yoshimune Information
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Yoshimune was not the son of any former shogun. Rather, he was a member of a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, well aware of the extinction of the Minamoto line in 1219, had realized that his...


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Perspectives on Political Science
Tokugawa Political Writings.(Review) (book review)
06/22/1999: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Najita, Tetsuo, ed. Tokugawa Political Writings New York: Cambridge University Press 156 pp. + lxxiii, $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-56186-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-56717-3 paper Publication Date: September 1998 This pithy volume, edited by Tetsuo Najita of the University of Chicago, makes...
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Pacific Affairs
Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan. (book reviews)
12/22/1996: 514 words, approx. 2 pages
Several recent studies have questioned widely held assumptions about the nature of traditional Japanese sociopolitical and economic patterns. Arne Kalland's book on coastal fishing villages during the Tokugawa period is a case in point. The book includes background information on feudal ethos and...
 


 

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