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The 78 pages that link to Tokugawa shogunate, each with the reason it gives.

• Meiji RestorationNarrower topic: Its loss of authority created the political opening the restorationaries used to end shogunal rule.

• Edo periodBroader topic: It was the governing regime that defined the period.

• TokyoRelated: Its rule made Edo the country’s de facto political center for more than two centuries.

• Tokugawa IeyasuBroader topic: Ieyasu founded this government and established its institutions.

• Sengoku periodBroader topic: It emerged from the victories that ended the era’s civil wars.

• KabukiRelated: Its regulations shaped which performers and performances could appear onstage.

• Boshin WarNarrower topic: Its overthrow was the war’s central political result.

• Toyotomi HideyoshiNarrower topic: The shogunate inherited a unified Japan after defeating the Toyotomi house.

• Itō HirobumiNarrower topic: Its fall opened the political transition through which Itō rose to national power.

• Meiji eraNarrower topic: Its collapse created the political opening for imperial restoration.

• SamuraiBroader topic: Its long peace reshaped samurai from battlefield warriors into a governing class.

• Oda NobunagaRelated: The shogunate emerged from the political order formed after Nobunaga and Hideyoshi.

• Sonnō jōiRelated: The slogan became a rallying cry against the shogunate’s handling of foreign relations and its claim to govern.

• EdoNarrower topic: Its rulers made Edo the seat of national government.

• Emperor MeijiCompared with: Its authority was dismantled as power was formally returned to the emperor.

• DaimyoBroader topic: Its laws and institutions shaped daimyo obligations and constrained their autonomy.

• Abolition of the han systemCompared with: Its domain-based order was the political structure the reform dismantled.

• Battle of SekigaharaBroader topic: Sekigahara enabled Ieyasu to found this regime three years later.

• ShogunBroader topic: Its long rule became the best-known example of hereditary shogunal government.

• Yamagata AritomoCompared with: Yamagata helped replace its domain-based military order with a centralized national army.

• Sankin-kōtaiNarrower topic: It imposed and administered the system to strengthen central authority.

• Tokugawa YoshinobuNarrower topic: Yoshinobu inherited this government during its final political crisis.

• BakumatsuNarrower topic: Bakumatsu names the closing years of this government.

• Early modern periodBroader topic: Its long rule offers a distinct East Asian chronology for early modern change.

• Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)Related: The invasions’ failure preceded Japan’s political transition to Tokugawa rule.

• Kanō schoolRelated: Its commissions made Kanō painters official artists and secured the school’s prominence in the Edo period.

• Perry ExpeditionRelated: Its leaders faced and negotiated Perry’s demands.

• Confucianism in JapanBroader topic: Its peace and administrative needs gave Confucian scholarship new political prominence.

• Satsuma-Chōshū AllianceCompared with: The alliance coordinated opposition to the government whose authority it sought to end.

• Chōshū DomainNarrower topic: Chōshū existed within this regime before helping bring it down.

• Japanese castleRelated: The shogunate regulated castle ownership to limit the power of regional lords.

• DynastyBroader topic: The Tokugawa case shows hereditary rule by a military house alongside an emperor.

• JidaigekiRelated: Its institutions and authority shape many stories set in the Edo period.

• Katsu KaishūNarrower topic: Katsu’s naval service and political authority arose within this government.

• Iwakura MissionNarrower topic: Its fall created the new political order that dispatched the mission.

• Matthew C. PerryRelated: Its officials faced Perry’s demands and decided how Japan would respond.

• Sakamoto RyōmaCompared with: Ryōma organized against the government whose collapse ended the Bakumatsu.

• Shimabara RebellionNarrower topic: Its forces suppressed the rebellion and shaped its aftermath.

• Siege of OsakaNarrower topic: The siege consolidated the shogunate’s authority against its last major domestic rival.

• Tokugawa HidetadaNarrower topic: Hidetada consolidated this government during its early decades.

• YakuzaRelated: Its social order and regulation of commerce shaped the settings where precursor groups operated.

• YoshiwaraRelated: The shogunate licensed and regulated Yoshiwara as part of its urban order.

• Azuchi–Momoyama periodNarrower topic: It inherited a largely unified country and built on political arrangements formed during this period.

• Conscription in JapanCompared with: Its hereditary status order and domain armies contrasted with national conscription.

• Yamaguchi PrefectureCompared with: Chōshū’s opposition to this government helped set the stage for the Meiji Restoration.

• Battle of Toba–FushimiRelated: Its forces lost the battle, accelerating the collapse of its political authority.

• DejimaRelated: It controlled the foreign trade and movement permitted at Dejima.

• SeikanronNarrower topic: The debate unfolded as the new regime replaced institutions and foreign-policy assumptions inherited from Tokugawa rule.

• Treaty of ShimodaRelated: Its officials negotiated the agreement on Japan’s behalf during the late Edo period.

• Emperor KōmeiNarrower topic: The shogunate retained executive power, forcing Kōmei’s court to negotiate rather than rule independently.