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Sakoku (鎖国 / 鎖國, "chained country") is the most common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the ...
The Sakoku Edict (Sakoku-rei, 鎖国令) of 1635 was a Japanese decree intended to eliminate foreign influence, enforced by strict government rules and regulations to impose these ideas. It was the third of a series issued by Tokugawa Iemitsu , [ citation needed ] shōgun of Japan from 1623 to 1651.
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
Nanban trade (南蛮貿易, Nanban bōeki, "Southern barbarian trade") or the Nanban trade period (南蛮貿易時代, Nanban bōeki jidai, "Southern barbarian trade period") was a period in the history of Japan from the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614.
A Blu-ray Disc version was released on the same day as the 2-Disc special edition and includes exactly the same features as its DVD counterpart. [ 6 ] The Region 2 DVD was released on September 1, 2008, in a limited edition steelbook 2-Disc set, [ 7 ] featuring only the original Japanese soundtrack with English subtitles without English Dub.
The sankin-kōtai system was a natural outgrowth of pre-existing practices which were expanded by the Tokugawa shogunate to further their own political interests. [2] Much of the reason the newly created shogunate could impose sankin-kōtai on the defeated daimyo with ease was due to these immediate predecessors.
An 1861 image expressing the Jōi (攘夷, "Expel the Barbarians") sentiment. Sonnō jōi (尊 王 攘 夷, "revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians") was a yojijukugo (four-character compound) phrase used as the rallying cry and slogan of a political movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, during the Bakumatsu period.
Hm. I checked the Japanese wikipedia article on ja:鎖国 (sakoku), and it simply lists the 1635 edicts as "3rd Sakoku Edicts" (第3次鎖国令). I'll contunue to look around, see what I can find, but I think the best thing might simply be to rename the article "Sakoku Edict of 1635" - 'Closed Country' feels like overtranslation to me.