Last Shogun: The Life Of Tokugawa Yoshinobu Condition:Like New and a dangerous hidden life

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Last Shogun: The Life Of Tokugawa Yoshinobu Condition:Like New and a dangerous hidden lifeIn Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their governments. It came to its real climax with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the event which forms the centerpiece of this book. The Meiji Restorationas history calls ittoppled the shogunate, and brought a seventeen year old boy emperor back from the