Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shoguns Last Samurai
Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shoguns Last Samurai See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it -- as well as…
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Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shoguns Last Samurai
See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it -- as well as those who fought against it -- in this exploration of Samurai history.Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's historic transformation at the end of the nineteenth century from a country of shoguns, feudal lords and samurai to a modern industrialized nation. Knowledge of this period is essential to understand how and why Japan evolved into the nation it is today.The book opens with the fifteen-year fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had ruled Japan for over 250 The book covers the turbulent Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912, widely considered "the dawn of modern Japan," a time of Samurai history in which those who choose to cling to their traditional bushido way of life engaged in frequent and often deadly clashes with champions of modernization.