Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun By Conrad Totman

by Conrad Totman
Paperback book
Samurai book
Great read

Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun Description

An oft-repeated saying in Japan goes like this: When asked what he would do if a cuckoo refused to sing for him, Oda Nobunaga replied, "I would wring its neck." Toyotomi Hideyoshi replied,
"I would force it to sing." Tokugawa leyasu replied, "I would wait for it to sing."
These three responses are supposed to reveal the differences in character of the three men who dominated Japan's political life between 1570 and 1615. Seizing power one after another, they gradually imposed peace and order on a country that had been torn by recurrent civil war for over a century. Nobunaga faced the most chaotic situation; leyasu, the least.
Their policies--neck-wringing as against waiting-reflected the differences in their situa-tions.
Building on the harsh triumphs of his two predecessors, leyasu founded a dynasty that kept the peace in Japan until 1867. He and his successors exercised dictatorial authority as hereditary shogun to rule one of the largest and most dynamic societies of their day. The values and organizational patterns of those peaceful centuries are still evident in Japan today, and the historic events that produced the peace are recounted in books, on stage, and on movie screens and television sets across the land. This book will introduce leyasu, his age, and his society to those who may be curious about the history of Japan.
A note on names: Japanese names are given in the normal Japanese order, family name first: e.g., Toyotomi Hideyori, whom we might refer to as Hideyori of the Toyotomi family.

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