The Tokugawa period (1600-1868) brought significant social, legislative, and institutional change to Japan, including peace and stability that pervaded much of early modern society. Life in these new social conditions was experienced under the authoritative and ideological influence of the shogunal regime, which sought to order society in a way reflective of administrative ideals. However, while control over Tokugawa inhabitants existed to a certain degree, there were also instances of geographical and social release from such control through engagement in religious pilgrimage and ritual. Practices such as these allowed some citizens to move around, through, and perhaps beyond the modes of confinement established by authorities. This release, which is illuminated by considerations of social and ritual theory, leaves us with a nuanced picture of Tokugawa life and indicates that relatively fluid portions of society may have maneuvered within the boundaries of the hegemonic structure.

Japan’s early modern period (1568-1868) achieved a break from the violent political and social upheaval of the preceding Warring States period (1467-1568). The return to a stable and more centralized rule was made possible by the development and implementation of an emerging politico-religious trend, in which powerful leaders were posthumously apotheosized and worshiped as tutelary deities. Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa shoguns, was deified and venerated at the Tōshōgū Shrine in Nikkō, and the politico-religious movement that was propagated by Ieyasu’s descendants became a central tool for the government’s legitimacy. Because Ieyasu’s cult was the only source of ideological legitimacy that was exclusive to the Tokugawa, the sources of Tokugawa success can be found by examining the development of the Nikkō shrine and its accompanying religious movement.

This thesis deals with the development of Western medicine in Japan, especially in the second half of the Tokugawa period. The first part briefly outlines the situation at the beginning of the Tokugawa period, especially how Western medicine got into Japan and how was received. The following passage more focuses on medicine and its place in the Japanese ideology. Emphasis is placed on intellectual and economic transformation in the 18th century and the clash of Western medicine with Neo-Confucianism. Some space is dedicated to significant medical names, Japanese and European. The whole work is finished with fairly extensive passage about vaccination, which was extremely important for the successful adoption of Western medicine in the early Meiji period. Keywords: rangaku, medical sciences, Western medicine, vaccination, the Tokugawa period

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo primordial apresentar um estudo sobre a vida de Senhime, neta de Tokugawa Ieyasu, que concluiu a unificação do país, após vários anos de contendas, e estabeleceu o xogunato de Tokugawa que dominou o Japão por quase trezentos anos, tendo como base a tradução integral da obra Senhimesama (A Princesa Senhime) de Hiraiwa Yumie. O trabalho é dividido basicamente em três partes: na primeira parte far-se-á considerações sobre a relação entre a obra e o romance histórico; na segunda parte, será enfocada a personagem Senhime baseada na mescla de fatos históricos e fictícios e, na terceira parte, será abordada a relação entre Senhime e os vários castelos para os quais se viu obrigada a se deslocar nos períodos marcantes de sua vida / This research had as its primary aim to present a study on the life of Sen\'hime, granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who concluded the country unification after years of strife, and established the Tokugawa xogunate of Japan which ruled for almost three hundred years. This study is based in the full translation of Yumie Hiraiwa work Sen\'himesama (Princess Senhime). This research is basically divided into three parts: the first part will make considerations about the relation between the work and the historical novel; the second part will focus on Sen\'hime character which is based in a mixture of historical and fictional facts and in the third part, we will look at the relationship between Sen\'hime and the several castles towards which she was forced to move on remarkable periods of her life

A missão cristã japonesa, iniciada com a chegada de Francisco Xavier ao arquipélago em 1549, inaugurou o chamado século cristão no Japão. Foi um período bastante conturbado na história japonesa: guerras civis quase ininterruptas vinham assolando o arquipélago há décadas e os generais que foram capazes de colocar fim ao contínuo estado de conflito militar e unificar o reino Oda Nobunaga e Toyotomi Hideyoshi não conseguiram fazer com que seus descendentes herdassem suas posições. Ao fim, o clã Tokugawa tomou o poder e inaugurou o regime militar que ficaria conhecido como Tokugawa Bakufu e duraria por mais de dois séculos e meio. Para que esse novo regime fosse possível, uma série de estruturas legitimadoras foram forjadas. Como resultado, o cristianismo foi interditado e os reinos ibéricos banidos e proibidos de retornar aos portos japoneses. As ordens missionárias europeias foram testemunhas de todo esse processo e buscaram até o fim negociar com esse poder em formação, na tentativa de manter a missão cristã ativa. Dentre elas, a Companhia de Jesus foi a que mais atuou no Japão; por mais de quatro décadas, teve assegurado o monopólio da missão japonesa. Em 1593, no entanto, os franciscanos espanhóis iniciaram sua atividade no arquipélago, a despeito da forte oposição jesuíta. O que se busca compreender neste trabalho, através dos escritos produzidos por estes missionários e de algumas obras dos japoneses acerca do cristianismo, é como jesuítas e franciscanos desenvolveram a missão cristã no contexto da unificação do Japão, e, por outro lado, a forma como os japoneses se apropriaram desse cristianismo, incluindo a reação que o mesmo causou nos círculos intelectuais dentro e fora do Bakufu. / archipelago, in 1549, inaugurated the so-called Christian Century in Japan. That was an eventful period in Japanese History: almost uninterrupted civil wars stroke the country for almost a century and the generals who were able to put an end to the continuous warfare and finally unify Japan Oda Nobunaga e Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not make their offspring successors to the positions they achieved. In the end, the Tokugawa house took the power and inaugurated the military regime that would become known as Tokugawa Bakufu and would last for the next two and a half centuries. In order to make this new regime possible, some new legitimizing structures were forged. As a result, Christianity was banned, and the Iberian kingdoms expelled and forbidden inside the archipelago. The European missionaries witnessed all this process and sought until the very end to negotiate with these powers, in an attempt to save the Christian mission. The Society of Jesus was the Catholic order that most worked in Japan. For more than four decades it held the monopoly over the Japanese mission. In 1593, however, the Spanish Franciscans began their activity in the archipelago, despite the Jesuit opposition. What this thesis aims to understand, through the writings of these missionaries and some works of the Japanese about Christianity, is how Jesuits and Franciscans developed the Christian mission in the context of the unification of Japan, the way the Japanese appropriated this Christianity and the reaction it caused in intellectual circles inside and outside the Bakufu.

A missão cristã japonesa, iniciada com a chegada de Francisco Xavier ao arquipélago em 1549, inaugurou o chamado século cristão no Japão. Foi um período bastante conturbado na história japonesa: guerras civis quase ininterruptas vinham assolando o arquipélago há décadas e os generais que foram capazes de colocar fim ao contínuo estado de conflito militar e unificar o reino Oda Nobunaga e Toyotomi Hideyoshi não conseguiram fazer com que seus descendentes herdassem suas posições. Ao fim, o clã Tokugawa tomou o poder e inaugurou o regime militar que ficaria conhecido como Tokugawa Bakufu e duraria por mais de dois séculos e meio. Para que esse novo regime fosse possível, uma série de estruturas legitimadoras foram forjadas. Como resultado, o cristianismo foi interditado e os reinos ibéricos banidos e proibidos de retornar aos portos japoneses. As ordens missionárias europeias foram testemunhas de todo esse processo e buscaram até o fim negociar com esse poder em formação, na tentativa de manter a missão cristã ativa. Dentre elas, a Companhia de Jesus foi a que mais atuou no Japão; por mais de quatro décadas, teve assegurado o monopólio da missão japonesa. Em 1593, no entanto, os franciscanos espanhóis iniciaram sua atividade no arquipélago, a despeito da forte oposição jesuíta. O que se busca compreender neste trabalho, através dos escritos produzidos por estes missionários e de algumas obras dos japoneses acerca do cristianismo, é como jesuítas e franciscanos desenvolveram a missão cristã no contexto da unificação do Japão, e, por outro lado, a forma como os japoneses se apropriaram desse cristianismo, incluindo a reação que o mesmo causou nos círculos intelectuais dentro e fora do Bakufu. / archipelago, in 1549, inaugurated the so-called Christian Century in Japan. That was an eventful period in Japanese History: almost uninterrupted civil wars stroke the country for almost a century and the generals who were able to put an end to the continuous warfare and finally unify Japan Oda Nobunaga e Toyotomi Hideyoshi could not make their offspring successors to the positions they achieved. In the end, the Tokugawa house took the power and inaugurated the military regime that would become known as Tokugawa Bakufu and would last for the next two and a half centuries. In order to make this new regime possible, some new legitimizing structures were forged. As a result, Christianity was banned, and the Iberian kingdoms expelled and forbidden inside the archipelago. The European missionaries witnessed all this process and sought until the very end to negotiate with these powers, in an attempt to save the Christian mission. The Society of Jesus was the Catholic order that most worked in Japan. For more than four decades it held the monopoly over the Japanese mission. In 1593, however, the Spanish Franciscans began their activity in the archipelago, despite the Jesuit opposition. What this thesis aims to understand, through the writings of these missionaries and some works of the Japanese about Christianity, is how Jesuits and Franciscans developed the Christian mission in the context of the unification of Japan, the way the Japanese appropriated this Christianity and the reaction it caused in intellectual circles inside and outside the Bakufu.

Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo primordial apresentar um estudo sobre a vida de Senhime, neta de Tokugawa Ieyasu, que concluiu a unificação do país, após vários anos de contendas, e estabeleceu o xogunato de Tokugawa que dominou o Japão por quase trezentos anos, tendo como base a tradução integral da obra Senhimesama (A Princesa Senhime) de Hiraiwa Yumie. O trabalho é dividido basicamente em três partes: na primeira parte far-se-á considerações sobre a relação entre a obra e o romance histórico; na segunda parte, será enfocada a personagem Senhime baseada na mescla de fatos históricos e fictícios e, na terceira parte, será abordada a relação entre Senhime e os vários castelos para os quais se viu obrigada a se deslocar nos períodos marcantes de sua vida / This research had as its primary aim to present a study on the life of Sen\'hime, granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who concluded the country unification after years of strife, and established the Tokugawa xogunate of Japan which ruled for almost three hundred years. This study is based in the full translation of Yumie Hiraiwa work Sen\'himesama (Princess Senhime). This research is basically divided into three parts: the first part will make considerations about the relation between the work and the historical novel; the second part will focus on Sen\'hime character which is based in a mixture of historical and fictional facts and in the third part, we will look at the relationship between Sen\'hime and the several castles towards which she was forced to move on remarkable periods of her life

This project examines the fraught diplomatic and commercial relations between Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868) and the Habsburg Spanish empire in the early seventeenth century. Vessels from Japan called at the port of Acapulco in New Spain three times within a decade, the first attempt in world history at a bilateral commercial relationship across the Pacific. In doing so, the ships also challenged the Spanish monopoly over the waterways between Latin America and Asia. Japanese commercial and diplomatic outreach peaked with the Keichō Embassy to Southern Europe (1613–1620), an effort that dispatched Japanese representatives to the court of Philip III in Madrid, but failed in its mission to secure regular contact between New Spain and northeastern Japan. In analyzing these events, I contrast Japan’s pursuit of commercial and diplomatic expansion with Spanish ambivalence and insularity, inverting essentializing narratives defined by Japanese isolation and European engagement. The project also compares the diplomatic models employed by each polity. I argue that Spain’s established imperial vision and the shogunate’s emerging hierarchical model of foreign relations placed each polity at the pinnacle of their respective diplomatic frameworks, handicapping efforts to communicate, build trust, and integrate each into the worldview of the other. Ultimately, a Spanish policy of containment closed off the Americas to Japan; soon after, the Tokugawa divested from its relationship with the Spanish Philippines in the face of alternative commercial partners and ongoing religious tension. The project thus integrates Japanese history into world history and the history of the Pacific, while questioning the notion of a straightforward commitment to expansion among Europe’s early-modern empires.

This thesis centres on a member of the rural elite, Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) of Echigo, and his social environment in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). Through a case study of the interaction between one individual’s life and his social conditions, the thesis participates in the ongoing scholarly reassessment of Tokugawa society, which had an apparently rigid political and social structure, yet many features that suggest a prototype of modernity. Bokushi’s life was multifaceted. He was a village administrator, landlord, pawnbroker, poet, painter, and great communicator, with a nation-wide correspondence network that crossed various social classes. His remote location and humble lifestyle notwithstanding, he was eventually able to publish a book about his region, Japan’s ‘snow country’. This thesis argues that Bokushi’s life epitomises both the potentiality and the restrictions of his historical moment for a well-placed member of the rural elite. An examination of Bokushi’s life and texts certainly challenges residual notions of the rigidity of social boundaries between the urban and the rural, between social statuses, and between cultural and intellectual communities. But Bokushi’s own actions and attitudes also show the force of conservative social values in provincial life. His activities were also still restrained by the external environment in terms of geographical remoteness, infrastructural limitation, political restrictions, cultural norms and the exigencies of human relationships. Bokushi’s life shows that in his day, Tokugawa social frameworks were being shaken and reshaped by people’s new attempts to cross conventional boundaries, within, however, a range of freedom that had both external and internal limits.

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