Shiba Ryotaro: Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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Author: Shiba Ryotaro
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 20 Aug 2004
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
Publication Country: London, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781568363561
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In this remarkable account of the life of Japan's last Shogun, the arrival of U.S. Commodore Perry's squadron is shown to be the spark that ignited the cataclysm that reached its climax with the fall of the Shogunate in 1868. This brought a 17 year-old boy emperor from the seclusion of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto to preside over what became a political and cultural revolution: with this, Japan's extraordinary modernisation began in earnest.