MARCH of HISTORY by Richard Wall

With the Fall of Rome Western Europe became a land of hundreds of petty states with thousands of "Lords" ruling as much of the cou...

Emperor Jimmu , the mythical 1st Emperor of Nippon (660-585 BCE ) From the dawn of the culture of Nippon the ruling dynasty has provided ...

The few ships of the Tokugawa Shogunate "Navy" before Commodore Perry's visit in 1853, were coastal junks with no effective a...

In 1852, Commodore Matthew Perry was ordered to sail to Japan with a squadron of seven US Navy warships and three supply ships. His orders w...

Japanese theater comprises three main styles. Noh the traditional aristocratic and oldest form of Japanese theater (dating from the early 1...

At the end of the 16 th Century, Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa Shogunate that was to last past the mid- nineteenth century. Cr...

The Katana was the "killing sword" of the Samurai. By the age of Tokugawa, the sword was referred to as the "soul of the w...