The Last Shogun: Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu - Hardcover

Ryotaro, Shiba

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568362463 ISBN 13: 9781568362465

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

This text examines the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, born in 1837, he came to power 30 years later as the 15th successor to the Tokugawa shogunate. Though his ancestral claim and his will to become a shogun were never as powerful as those of his enemies, he far outclassed them. The book discusses how he came to power just as the Tokugawa regime was suffering the worst military defeat in its history, and Yoshinobu strongly suspected that the rule of the Tokugawas was swiftly becoming an anachronism. The book chronicles how during a year of frenetic activity, he overhauled the military systems, reorganized the civil administration, promoted industrial development and expanded foreign intercourse, all with the farsighted aim of creating a unified Japan.

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About the Author:

RYOTARO SHIBA is one of Japan's bet-loved writers of all time. Working as a newspaper reporter, he began to write 1959 received the Naoki Prize for his novel The Owl Castle. His many works, which often present new interpretation of turbulent times such as the Meiji Restoration, have had enduring success with Japanese readers. He was named a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1981, cited as a person of cultural merit in 1991, and was conferred with Order of Culture in 1993. Shiba died in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1568362463
• ISBN 13: 9781568362465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240