Word: tokugawas
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...first book, Tokugawa Religion, was based on his Harvard graduate dissertation for a joint degree in sociology and Far Eastern languages, and it is still in print more than 40 years later...
...spends too little time on war in the 20th century, his unusual design -- a layering of material in chapters called "Stone," "Flesh," "Armies," "Iron" and so on -- permits him to range across time and distance to brilliant comparative effect. He roams from the Japanese suppression of firearms during the Tokugawa seclusion (an early success of gun $ control, unrepeatable and totalitarian) to the Aztec "Feast of the Flaying of Men"; from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz (whom he detests as the ideological godfather of modern war-as-policy); and from the dark, irrational roots of Roman military violence to the question...
...constellation of groups, a constellation as diverse and as dedicated to true multiculturalism as any magazine staff on campus (particularly, though by no means restricted to, the conservative ones), and they write about issues ranging from coming out as a Black lesbian in Louisiana to male homoerotics in Tokugawa Japan to racism within the bi/gay/lesbian community and its impact on out relationships with other minority groups...
...exibit consists of three rooms containing hanging scrolls from different periods of Japanese history; of these, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Tokugawa are the best represented. This allows the viewer to compare scroll work from various periods in a relaxed, informal setting...
...looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form. She wears a blue-and-white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. Except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted), Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meiji print...