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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Tokugawa
Britannica 11thTOKUGAWA, the name of a Japanese family which provided the ruling dynasty of shSguns from 1603 until the revolution which restored the power of the mikado in 1867. The founder of this dynasty was lyeyasu Tokugawa (1542-1616), a great general and consummate pol ...
Vol. 26, pp. 1047-1047
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Sumptuary Laws
Britannica 11th... trictions as to the materials of which it is to be built. But it was during the Tokugawa period that sumptuary laws and regulations were passed in the most bewildering profusion; every detail of a man's life was regulated down to the least particular — from th ...
Vol. 26, pp. 83-85
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