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Tokugawa

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To·ku·ga·wa  (tk-gäwä)
adj.
Of or relating to a family of shoguns that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867, a period marked by centralized feudalism, the growth of urban centers, exclusionary policies against the West, and a rise in literacy.


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00 Hardcover Routledge/Leiden series in modern East Asian politics and history BR1306 The political dimensions of the anti-Christian discourse in Japan during the decline of the Tokugawa shogunate in the late 1880s and early 1890s are well studied, says Paramore (Japanese history, Leiden U.
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