The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

Let's take a tour of Edo, Japan's capital (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa Period.

Episode 1: Warriors Of Tokugawa Singaporean curator and scholar ... where his past work includes CNA’s award-winning Mark of Empire on the history of Southeast Asia’s great empires, as well ...

Tokugawa won, eliminating his opponents ... The failed 1637 Shimabara Rebellion effectively ended Christianity in the Empire until 1873. Next, the Bakufu subsequently enacted sakoku, or ...

When a daimyo died, these warriors became "ronin," masterless samurai. After Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun in 1603, samurai military services were no longer required, and many ronin wandered the ...