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...politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built themselves impregnable and magnificent castles. "This room you see here," Hideyoshi would tell his guests as he gave them a tour of his seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes...
Cherubs. The Christian missions founded by Xavier and others flourished in Japan (there were 300,000 converts by 1600, and religion and trade were inseparable) until the priests' meddling in Japanese political life enraged the Tokugawa government and persecutions began in 1612. In 1637, a rebellion of Christian peasants was crushed, 37,000 of them were killed, and Christianity was extinct-along with all further contact with the West. Most Namban religious art also perished, except for some rare tea bowls decorated with the cross or an occasional lacquer...
...lent to New York's show, he took great care with detail: the cloaks, the baggy pantaloons, the rakish curly-brim hats, the mustaches and the grotesquely long noses of the foreign barbarians are meticulously set down. To us, it looks like caricature at first. To the lord Tokugawa, who is believed to have commissioned it, it almost certainly...
Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufn, 1600-1843 by Conrad D. Totman...
Matsushita's business career began in a Japan that was still shaking off the effects of two centuries of political, economic and international hibernation under the autocratic Tokugawa shoguns. To preserve their nation's independence, the new rulers of Japan-an uneasy coalition of military leaders descended from the old samurai and the great financial clans known as zaibatsu-concentrated on building Japan's industrial and military power at forced draft. The policy was in part highly successful-until World War II, Japan was the only Asian nation that had never been colonized or dominated...