The Edo Inheritance

Tokugawa Tsunenari

International House of Japan

2009

200 páginas

6h 40m

ISBN-13: 9784924971264

"The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868) - the reign of the family that effectively governed Japan during that period - is to be credited with 265 years of uninterrupted peace or blamed for having created a centuries-long police-state? Here a descendant offers a revisionist history that de-demonizes an era sometimes said to constitute Japan's dark ages and discovers a harbinger. The result is a delightfully contentious book that will stir debate for some time to come." - Donald Richie