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Japan History

 

Japanese Social Structure and Political Ranks 850-1868

 

Feudal Japan

 

Odawara in Feudal Time

Japanese Feudal Laws

 

BBC Japanese History and Culture

 

Early Japan

 

Medieval Japan

 

Early Japan

 

 

A Brief History of Japanese Martial Culture

 

Japan Timeline 1

 

Timeline of Japanese Rulership and Religion

 

Timeline of Ancient Japan

Feudal Japan

Structure of Feudal Japan

Structure of Feudal Japan Pyramid scroll down to find pyramid

Feudal Japan

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narajapan

 

Japan: Aristocratic government at its peak

 

Ancient Japan Main page 

 

Ancient Japan

 

Ancient Japan

 

History of Japan

 

Japanese History

 

History of Japan

 

Early History to the Ashikaga Shoguns

 

Japan: Peeps at History

 

Castles of Japan –also have life –merchant, samurai, farmers and others

 

Japan

 

Japan: History

Medieval Japan 1185-1600

Dawn of Wakayama and Nara Period

Japanese History

Wikipedia History of Japan

NationMaster.com: History of Japan

 

 

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SAMURAI

Samurai Archives Japanese History Page

 

Samurai  Story

 

Defensive Weapons of the Samurai

 

Brief History of the Samurai

 

The Japanese Samurai Versus the European Knight

 

Brief History of the Samurai

 

The Age of Hakkenden (Samurai)

 

Japanese Samurai

 

The Samurai the Warrior Class of Japan

 

Warrior Puppets: The Samurai of the Tokugawa Shogunate

 

The Medieval European Knight vs. The Feudal Japanese Samurai?

 

Samurai  Gallery

 

 

 

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SHOGUN

 

Shogun (scroll all the way down to get info)

 

Shogun

 

Brief History

 

Shogun

 

Onin War (Shogunate) (1467-1573)

Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598)

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)

Life in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)

Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801)

Edo Japan Virtual Tour— Shogun Info

 

Tokugawa Japan (Shogunate)

 

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Ninjutsu

History of Ninjutsu

The history of Ninja, Aikido, and Ninjutsu, Martial Arts

Ninjutsu: Bit of History – Shingan Dojo lasi

 

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WOMEN

 

Women in World History Curriculum Showcase

 

Samurai Sisters: Early Feudal Japan

 

 

Gender Difference in History: Women in China and Japan

 

Women Warriors of Japan: The Role of the Arms-Bearing Women in Japanese History

 

The Samurai Archives: Famous Women

 

Senshi Naishinno/ Daisaiin Senshi (964-1035)

 

Sei Shonagon (965/967-aft.1010)

 

Beauty and Desire in Edo Period Japan

 

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MISC.

 

Kids Web Japan

 

Web Japan

 

Calligraphy and Literature

Japan and its Capitals

Letters from Feudal Era

 

Japanese old photographs

 

Japanese Prints

 

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Vocabulary / concepts ---influences

Nippon (terms)

Japan’s  Castle

 

The Castles of Japan

 

 

Welcome to MIT Visualizing Cultures

 

CMA Asian Odyssey: Japan

Ainu to Emperor

Museum at Hokkaido

 

 

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Meigi

 

Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan

 

Daimyo  Estate

Daimyo Procession The Tokaido

 

Japan Glossary Commodore Matthew Perry

 

Modern History: Commodore Perry and Japan

 

Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan

 

General Information – Commodore Perry 1852-4 Japan Expedition

 

Matthew Calbraith Perry InfoPlease

 

Meiji Period@Everything2.com

 

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Ronin

History of Japan

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

Tale of the 47 Ronin

 

 

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Peasants

Japanese History and Cultural Relations

History of Japan

 

 

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Artisans

History of Japan

 

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Merchants

Brief History

History of Japan

Kabuki: Frozen Features in a Floating World (Fisherman etc)

Merchants in Feudal Japan

 

Merchants in Feudal Japan The Voice of Women

 

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Warrior

Oda Nobunaga (warrior)

 

The Way of the Warrior

 

 

 

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Emperors

Emperors, Shoguns, & Regents of Japan

 

Japanese Emperor

 

Japanese History Overview

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Religion

 

Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism

Kokugaku: Japanese Studies (Japanese Glossary|Buddhism)

Heian Jingu Shrine/Festival of Ages

The Burakumin: The Complicity of Japanese Buddhism in Oppression and an Opportunity for Liberation

Buddhist  Studies

 

Buddhist History and Culture

 

Three Zen Masters of the Tokugawa Period (1615-1868)

 

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