The Dog Shogun : : The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi /

The Dog Shogun : : The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi / / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.

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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...

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Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice M.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • 1. Prologue
  • 2. The Inheritance
  • 3. When a Child's Nurse Ought to Be Male
  • 4. Lord of Tatebayashi
  • 5. Confucian Governance
  • 6. A Great and Excellent Lord
  • 7. The First Year of Government
  • 8. The Rise and Fall of Hotta Masatoshi
  • 9. The Shogun's New Men
  • 10. The Laws of Compassion
  • 11. The Dog Shogun
  • 12. The Forty-Seven Loyal Samurai
  • 13. Financial Matters
  • 14. Producing Currency
  • 15. The Two Wheels of a Cart
  • 16. The Apprenticeship of Ogyū Sorai
  • 17. The Final Years
  • 18. The Legacy
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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