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	Japanese history: Edo Period
		In 1603, Ieyasu was appointed Shogun by the emperor and established his government in Edo (Tokyo).
		During the Edo period and especially during the Genroku era (1688 - 1703), popular culture flourished.
		The most important philosophy of Tokugawa Japan was Neo-Confucianism, stressing the importance of morals, education and hierarchical order in the government and society: A strict four class system existed during the Edo period: at the top of the social hierarchy stood the samurai, followed by the peasants, artisans and merchants.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2128.html (720 words)

	Edo period - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
		The beginning of the Edo period coincides with the last decades of the Nanban trade period, during which intense interaction with European powers, on the economic and religious plane, took place.
		It is at the beginning of the Edo period that Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships, such as the San Juan Bautista, a 500-ton galleon-type ship that transported a Japanese embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Americas, which then continued to Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edo_period (4649 words)

	Japan's sustainable society in the Edo period (1603-1867) \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		In the history of Japan, the 265-year period between 1603 (when Tokugawa Ieyasu became the generalissimo or great "shogun" of the Tokugawa shogunate) and 1867 (when Tokugawa Yoshinobu formally returned political authority to the emperor) is called the Edo Period.
		These are some of many kinds of collectors and recyclers of the Edo Period who made it possible for the society to use all of its goods and materials for long periods of time and to reduce the amount of new materials needed.
		During the Edo Period, about 80 percent of daily commodities was made from the solar energy of the previous year and 95 percent was derived from solar energy received in the past three years.
	www.energybulletin.net /5140.html (3074 words)

	Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan - Pictures of the 'floating world'
		The economic rise of the merchant class was paralleled by the rapid growth of the major cities -- particularly Edo, the administrative and political centre of the shogunate.
		Edo artist Hishikawa Moronobu (c.1618-1694), who came from a family of textile producers and designers, is regarded as a founder of ukiyo-e.
		Sukenobu, who influenced later Edo artists, was one of the first to depict courtesans in a refined manner, combining apparent innocence with aristocratic elegance and grace.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/jun1998/uki-j27.shtml (2380 words)

	Edo Firemen
		Firemen in Edo, the old Japanese capital today known as Tokyo, were regarded with a mixture of admiration and fear.
		Edo firefighters were equipped with heavy, multi-layer jackets for their protection.
		During the Edo period several precautions to prevent fires from breaking out and from spreading were introduced and became mandatory laws.
	www.artelino.com /articles/edo_firemen.asp (949 words)

	Edo
		Artistically, the Edo period is one of the richest in the history of Japanese art, and is fascinating to us today because it bridges the traditional and modern ages of that great country," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National gallery of Art.
		The Edo period was one of unprecedented peace and prosperity in Japan.
		The brilliant printmakers of the late Edo period, Hokusai and Hiroshige, respectively, produced the "Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji" and the "Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido," which were popular then and are now famous the world over.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/edo.htm (1040 words)

	Edo - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edo was devastated repeatedly by fires, the Meireki no Taika of 1657 perhaps having been the most serious one: an estimated 100,000 people perished in the flames.
		During the Edo period, there were about one hundred fires, typically caused by accidents when the mostly wooden townhouses (Machiya) were heated with charcoal fires in winter.
		During the Edo period, the Shogunate appointed administrators (machi bugyo) to oversee the government of Edo.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Edo (352 words)

	The Tokugawa (Edo) Period in a Nutshell
		Basically, the period of more-or-less peace from 1600 to 1867 is called the Tokugawa Period or the Edo Period (Edo was the Shoguns' capital during this period).
		Thus the history of the Edo period is mostly economic and cultural.
		In international relations, the Edo period is the famous period of seclusion.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/intro/node21.html (233 words)

	Edo Period
		Edo period started with establishment of the Edo Shogun ate, and it came to the end of Edo period when the political power was returned to the Imperial Court.
		Edo period had the longest Shogun ate in Japanese history and controled by Tokugawa family for 273 years, and it was considered that the Edo period was much stable than other time periods in Japanese history except for Jomon period in Japanese prehistory.
		Early in Edo period was still unstable due to wars caused by feudal lords and rebellion.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/japan/edo/edo-p.htm (1182 words)

	Architronic v6n1.04 The Fireworks of Edo
		In contrast with European cities, conceived and retained in the collective memory as man-made artifacts, the symbolic structure of Edo was based on its topography: the structure of the low (Shitamachi) and high (Yamanote) and the presence of strong topographical elements (Fuji and Tsukuba mountains and Sumida River) that became the trademarks of Edo.
		Nevertheless, the obsessive appearance of Fuji in the prints of Edo is further suggestive of the period's constant anticipation of the extraordinary and the appreciation of the impermanent state of pleasures.
		Edo culture was developed in a constant necessity to transform its codes and localities, a procedure that produced a dispersed network of places, unsuitable for stable, architectural forms.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v6n1/v6n1.04k.html (863 words)

	Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Edo period is often thought of as a time of strict division of the populace in social castes, with little opportunity for movement among them.
		Edo was known to its inhabitants as the city of blossoms.
		In the Meiji period, the symbiotic culture of the Edo period was rejected as backward and chaotic.
	www.kisho.co.jp /Books/book/chapter4.html (6431 words)

	Japan Glossary - Edo
		In the late 18th century, Edo reached a population of one million and was the largest city in the world at the time (which the Greater Tokyo still is, with 35 million inhabitants).
		Edo, like Venice, was a city relying on canals, and boats were the principal means of transport.
		Japanese whose ancestors lived in Edo before it was renamed Tokyo in 1868 are known as Edoko or "child(ren) of Edo".
	www.jref.com /glossary/edo.shtml (210 words)

	Edo Japan, A Virtual Tour
		During the reign of the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's emperor reigned in secluded majesty at the imperial capital in Kyoto; however, the true center of power, government, the economy and social life was Edo, where the Shogun lived and ruled the country.
		For the Japanese, Edo has a romantic image that one could compare to the Italian's image of Renaissance Venice, the British image of Victorian London and the American image of the Wild West, all rolled into one.
		New towns, new sounds and graphics, and new information on historical Edo will be added on a regular basis.
	www.us-japan.org /edomatsu (208 words)

	ArtLex on Art of the Edo Period or Era
		The late Edo period was an urban moment; Tokyo in the 18th century was the largest city in the world.
		Noh robe (Nuihaku), Edo period (1615-1868), second half of the 18th century, silk embroidery and gold leaf on satin, height 61 1/4 inches (155.6 cm), width at sleeves 21 1/8 inches (53.7 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
		Rain is pelting pedestrians on the bridge at Ohashi in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo).
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/edo.html (500 words)

	LthruZgardens
		An Edo Period garden with a pond in the shape of the Chinese character for water.
		An Edo Period garden with a very large clipped hedge which is the main feature of the garden and is essentially "the garden".
		A Kamakura Period garden, however the present pond was built during the early Edo period.
	www.cowboy.net /~larrydj/lthruzga.htm (680 words)

	WebMuseum: Art of the Edo Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Tokugawa shogunate of the Edo period gained undisputed control of the government in 1603 with a commitment to bring peace and economic and political stability to the country; in large measure it was successful.
		One of the dominant themes in the Edo period was the repressive policies of the shogunate and the attempts of artists to escape these strictures.
		In the early years of the Edo period, however, the full impact of Tokugawa policies had not yet been felt, and some of Japan's finest expressions in architecture and painting were produced: Katsura Palace in Kyoto and the paintings of Sotatsu, pioneer of the Rimpa school.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/tl/japan/edo.html (508 words)

	Edo Japanese Beds
		The Edo Period in Japan from 1500-1780 AD is what many people think of when picturing classical Japanese culture.
		Our Edo bedroom furniture includes many of the design ideas found in Japan at that time, while at the same time, creating a fresh, new look that is decidedly modern.
		Our new Edo Vertical Dresser, or High Chest is a great choice for those who want a dresser with great looks and plenty of storage space, while at the same time wanting one that take up less space in the room.
	www.haikudesigns.com /edo-beds.htm (684 words)

	Japan for Sustainability (JFS) -Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The requests for more information on the sustainable society in the Edo period were overwhelming, which prompted us to contact the author for his permission to translate the book for this website.
		As a result, the lives of our ancestors in the Edo period was very simple--in fact, it had to be so, because once they resigned themselves to being satisfied with a simple life, they could live with small amounts of energy.
		Though it is difficult to know objectively how our ancestors lived in the Edo Period, one clue is provided by some documents written and left by foreigners who came to Japan from the last years of the Edo Period to the beginning of the Meiji Period.(Read More...
	www.japanfs.org /en/column/ishikawa01.html (767 words)

	Edo period (1603-1867) (from pottery) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Edo is also the vernacular name for Benin City, the centre of the Benin...
		In contrast to the restraint of the preceding Muromachi, or Ashikaga, period (1338–1573), it was an age of magnificence and ostentation.
		Artists of the baroque period attempted to evoke emotional states in the viewer or listener by appealing to the senses, often in dramatic ways.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-73921 (922 words)

	Early Edo Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		he early Edo period of Japan was a period of relative peace and prosperity, following the previous period which consisted of continual wars and hardships.
		Consequently, the Edo period brought about some uncertainty for many samauri who had lost their Daimyo masters in the unsettled "Sengoku Jidai" (Period of War).
		Some ronin were fortunate enough to be employed by other daimyo to join their wrestling ranks, while others were not so fortunate and were forced to perform in the streets in what was known as "street-corner sumo".
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/sumo/sumo_site/edo1.html (201 words)

	Expanding Edo Art
		The title "Expanding Edo Art" was intended to suggest the need to expand categories and to reconsider in a cross-disciplinary way what is meant both by "Edo" and by "art." The workshop was organized into four sessions, with three "provocateurs" per session.
		In the postwar period, as the Shimizu talk on "Japan in Museums" demonstrated, Japanese were encouraged by the Americans themselves to promote their art as a way of improving relations between the two countries through art.
		In general, in the Edo period there was an iconography of absence, or the representation of absence, as in the case of Edo Castle drawn with a cloud obscuring it.
	www.columbia.edu /~hds2/expanding.htm (5390 words)

	L'Asie Exotique - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The clay figures and burial mound figures of the Jomon period, and dolls in the Edo period are organized in completely different styles with the changing times.
		A prominent feature of dolls in the Edo era is that they were made in imitation of the dynastic beauties of the Heian period (794-1184).
		It is said that Saga dolls were made from the first half of the Edo era, by sculptors of Buddhist images who diverted the technical skills they had developed in their daily work to making these dolls.
	www.lasieexotique.com /mag_Edo_ningyo.html (1991 words)

	Other Edo Period kimonos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is a furisode from the latter half of the Edo period.
		This is a Juban from the latter half of the Edo period.
		A juban is an undergarment and this one is very fancy with scenes of the city of Edo along the river Sumida.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/edoplus.html (372 words)

	Koldinghus - Japan: Edo Period 2
		The Emperor in the Edo period had only symbolic power, and the real ruler was the Shogun, whose restrictive foreign policy only permitted the opening up of a few limited glimpses of the country's splendour.
		Japan's traditions today are based to a great extent on the heyday of artistic and cultural life in the Edo period, which at that time spread out from society's elite to large sections of the population.
		The Edo period is illustrated by a large number of artefacts including Samurai equipment, models of houses, paintings, woodcuts, lacquer work and other exquisite craft works.
	www.koldinghus.dk /?ID=1350 (1376 words)

	AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 107 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Her paper, "Urban Lifestyles in Edo as Seen Through Textiles," reflects the growing concern of historians with material culture, and opens new ground by focusing on the image of urban society in Edo as reflected in textiles.
		The most popular pattern in the Edo period and the most famous symbol of urban chic was stripes, which was called shima in Japanese, meaning the islands of Southeast Asian countries.
		It brought samurai from the two hundred odd domains to the Tokugawa bakufu's administrative center in Edo on a tour of duty to serve their lords (daimyo), who were, depending on their rank, required to alternate residence between their castle towns and Edo every six months or year.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/japan/jses107.htm (1156 words)

	Dragon Dance Japanese Antiques Antiques,Regional Art Directory
		A heavy Japanese Edo period (1615 - 1868) samurai sword kogai for a wakizashi sword.
		Distinctive strap through the kurigata was once green but Edo period dyes were not stable and this has faded.
		It was was introduced to Japan in the age of Emperor Nintoku (355 A.D.) Falconry thrived during the Edo period and continued right up to the arrival of Commodore Perry.
	www.trocadero.com /dragondance/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art50.html (1238 words)

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