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Encyclopedic Usage

Adam Laxman. A lieutenant in the Imperial Russian military, he was commanded in 1791 to lead an expedition there, returning two Japanese castaways to their home country in exchange for trade concessions from the Tokugawa shogunate. [WP]

Asano Naganori. In 1683 he was first apponted to be one of two officials to host the emissaries from the imperial court to the Shogunate. [WP]

Ashikaga shogunate. The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove the 15th and last Ashikaga shogun Yoshiaki out of Kyoto. [WP]

Ashikaga Tadayoshi. Turning against Go-Daigo, Tadayoshi and Takauji set up a rival emperor in 1336 and founded the Muromachi shogunate in 1338. [WP]

Ashikaga Takauji. Takauji was a general of the Kamakura shogunate sent to Kyoto in 1333 to put down the Genko Rebellion which had started in 1331. [WP]

Ashikaga Takauji. Hojo Tokiyuki, son of the 14th Hojo regent Hojo Moritoki, took the opportunity to start the Nakasendai rebellion (''Nakasendai no Ran'') to try to reestablish the shogunate at Kamakura in 1335. [WP]

Ashikaga Yoshiaki. The absence of a ''de facto'' central authority in the capital of Japan had lasted until the warlord Oda Nobunaga's armies entered Kyoto in 1568, re-establishing the Muromachi Shogunate under the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to begin the Azuchi-Momoyama period. [WP]

Ashikaga Yoshiaki. The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto. [WP]

Ashikaga Yoshiharu. After the 10th shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate in 1521, Yoshitane ran away to Awaji Island and Yoshiharu was installed as a puppet shogun. [WP]

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Yoshimitsu still maintained authority over the shogunate until his death in 1408. [WP]

Azuchi-Momoyama period. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Ieyasu held supreme power over Japan beginning the Edo period, and finally in 1603 received the title of shogun officially establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo. [WP]

Busan. After the war, diplomatic relations with the new shogunate in Japan were established in 1607, and Busan Waegwan was permitted to be reconstructed. [WP]

Chinookan. Ranald MacDonald (3 February, 1824 - August 24, 1894), a half-Chinookan, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, to Archibald MacDonald, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, a Chinook Indian "princess"[?], was the first man to teach English in Japan, in 1847-1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters to later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate. [WP]

Date family. Ten years of violence and conflict followed in the north, reaching a climax in 1671 when Aki Muneshige, a powerful relative of the Date, complained to the shogunate of the mismanagement of the fief under Tsunamura and his uncles. [WP]

Dejima. After the Portuguese and other Catholic nations were expel...

• Preface iv
• Encyclopedic Usage 1
• Lexicographic Usage 10
• Index 17