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" The dog shogun : "
Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.
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1014745
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b769115
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Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice M.
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The dog shogun : : the personality and policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi /\ Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaiʻi Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xii, 378 pages) :: illustrations
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0824864689
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: 1435665880
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0824829786
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082483030X
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9780824829780
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9780824830304
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index.
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| Contents
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The inheritance -- When a child's nurse ought to be male -- Lord of Tatebayashi -- Confucian governance -- A great and excellent Lord -- The first year of government -- The rise and fall of Hotta Masatoshi -- The Shogun's new men -- The laws of compassion -- The dog Shogun -- The forty-seven loyal samurai -- Financial matters -- Producing currency -- The two wheels of a cart -- The apprenticeship of Ogyū Sorai -- The final years -- The legacy.
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Tsunayoshi (1646-"1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is one of the most notorious figures in Japanese history. Viewed by many as a tyrant, his policies were deemed eccentric, extreme, and unorthodox. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun, by which he is still popularly known today. However, Tsunayoshi's rule coincides with the famed Genroku era, a period of unprecedented cultural growth and prosperity that Japan would not experience again until the mid-twentieth century. It was under Tsunayoshi that for the first time in Japanese history considerable numbers of ordinary townspeople were in a financial position to acquire an education and enjoy many of the amusements previously reserved for the ruling elite. Based on a masterful re-examination of primary sources, this exciting new work by a senior scholar of the Tokugawa period maintains that Tsunayoshi's notoriety stems largely from the work of samurai historians and officials who saw their privileges challenged by a ruler sympathetic to commoners. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey's insightful analysis of Tsunayoshi's background sheds new light on his personality and the policies associated with his shogunate. The Dog Shogun is a thoroughly revisionist work of Japanese political history that touches on many social, intellectual, and economic developments as well. As such it promises to become a standard text on late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Japan.
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Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi,1646-1709.
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Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi,1646-1709.
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Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi,1646-1709.
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Shoguns, Biography.
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Shoguns, Biographies.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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HISTORY-- Asia-- Japan.
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HISTORY.
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Politics and government
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Shoguns.
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Sjogoens.
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Japan, Politics and government, 1600-1868.
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Japon, Politique et gouvernement, 1600-1868.
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Japan.
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Japan.
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952/.025092B
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DS872.T634B63 2006eb
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