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The 90 pages that link to Edo period, each with the reason it gives.

• Tokugawa shogunateNarrower topic: The shogunate’s political order defines the period’s conventional boundaries.

• Ukiyo-eNarrower topic: Ukiyo-e flourished amid the cities and commercial culture of Tokugawa-era Japan.

• Tokugawa IeyasuNarrower topic: Ieyasu’s victory initiated the era associated with his dynasty.

• KabukiNarrower topic: Kabuki developed into a major urban entertainment during this era.

• EdoNarrower topic: Edo’s growth and institutions defined the period’s political order.

• Nishiki-eNarrower topic: Nishiki-e developed amid Edo's urban publishing culture and expanding print market.

• Tōhoku regionNarrower topic: Its domain system shaped the political order across Tōhoku.

• Katsushika HokusaiNarrower topic: Hokusai’s life and career unfolded in Edo-period Japan’s urban print culture.

• Sankin-kōtaiNarrower topic: Sankin-kōtai became a defining institution of this long period of shogunal government.

• TōkaidōNarrower topic: The route’s institutions and prominence developed under Tokugawa government.

• WasabiNarrower topic: Wasabi became more established as a food ingredient during this era.

• Hishikawa MoronobuNarrower topic: Moronobu worked as Edo’s commercial culture and audiences were taking shape.

• Masaoka ShikiNarrower topic: Shiki inherited poetic traditions formed during this era, including established haiku schools.

• Japanese lacquerwareNarrower topic: Urban commerce and patronage during this era expanded demand for finely decorated lacquer objects.

• KokugakuNarrower topic: Kokugaku developed within the period’s expanding scholarship and debates about cultural identity.

• The Great Wave off KanagawaNarrower topic: The print was made during this era of urban growth and expanding print culture.

• Chikamatsu MonzaemonNarrower topic: Chikamatsu’s career unfolded amid the cities, social orders, and commercial culture of Tokugawa Japan.

• Motoori NorinagaNarrower topic: Norinaga’s scholarship developed amid Tokugawa peace, publishing, and expanding urban learning.

• Shimabara RebellionNarrower topic: The revolt strengthened controls characteristic of Tokugawa governance.

• YakuzaNarrower topic: Accounts of yakuza origins often locate early precursors in Edo-period urban society.

• Ogata KōrinNarrower topic: Kōrin’s career unfolded amid urban patronage and artistic exchange in early Edo Japan.

• Thirty-six Views of Mount FujiNarrower topic: The prints emerged from the period’s urban culture and domestic travel.

• Ihara SaikakuNarrower topic: Its peace and urban growth shaped the society Saikaku depicted.

• Oku no HosomichiNarrower topic: The journey took place amid the period’s travel restrictions, roads, and post towns.

• Samurai cinemaNarrower topic: Its social order supplies the setting for many samurai stories.

• Utagawa KuniyoshiNarrower topic: Kuniyoshi’s life and print career unfolded in the late Tokugawa order.

• SendaiNarrower topic: Sendai grew as a regional political center under the Edo-period domain system.

• SurimonoNarrower topic: Surimono flourished within Edo’s urban publishing and artistic culture.

• The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthNarrower topic: Bashō’s travel and literary world took shape under Edo-period social and political conditions.

• Treaty of ShimodaNarrower topic: The agreement was concluded under Tokugawa rule, amid growing foreign pressure.

• Kobayashi IssaNarrower topic: Issa’s life and literary world unfolded under Edo-period social and cultural conditions.

• Miyamoto MusashiNarrower topic: Musashi lived during the era when Japan moved from civil warfare to Tokugawa rule.

• Emperor NinkōNarrower topic: Ninkō’s reign fell within this political order.

• KanazawaNarrower topic: Kanazawa’s castle-town institutions and districts largely took shape under Edo-period rule.

• KitamaebuneNarrower topic: The Kitamaebune system expanded within the political and commercial order of this era.

• Niten Ichi-ryūNarrower topic: The school’s formation belongs to the early decades of this period.

• Santō KyōdenNarrower topic: The city’s publishing trade and urban audiences shaped the subjects and forms of Kyōden’s work.

• The Book of Five RingsNarrower topic: Musashi wrote during the early decades of this period of relative peace.

• Utagawa schoolNarrower topic: The school emerged within Edo’s urban markets, theaters, and publishing networks.

• Aizuri-eNarrower topic: Aizuri-e developed within Edo’s urban print culture.

• Amakusa ShirōNarrower topic: Shirō’s rebellion took place during the shogunate’s consolidation of authority.

• HiroshigeNarrower topic: Hiroshige worked in an era of urban growth, commercial publishing, and domestic travel.

• Japanese theatreNarrower topic: Kabuki and Bunraku flourished as urban entertainment during this era.

• Kaga no ChiyoNarrower topic: Chiyo-ni lived and wrote within its social and literary institutions.

• KeichōNarrower topic: The era’s political settlement led into this long period of Tokugawa rule.

• SharakuNarrower topic: Sharaku worked in Edo’s flourishing urban print and theatre culture.

• Takizawa BakinNarrower topic: Bakin’s career unfolded within its publishing culture and social order.

• Ueda AkinariNarrower topic: Akinari’s writing and scholarship developed within Tokugawa society.

• UtsunomiyaNarrower topic: Utsunomiya’s castle-town identity took shape under Tokugawa rule.

• GenrokuNarrower topic: Genroku is a named era within this longer political period.