Choshu in the Meiji Restoration by Albert M. Craig

Choshu in the Meiji Restoration

Studies of Modern Japan

Albert M. Craig

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When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies, upstart merchants, bath houses, and Kabuki...

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