Alamy The bustling Nihonbashi Bridge in the city of Edo (Tokyo) during the Tokugawa era (Credit: Alamy) Ancient Japan, I argue in ... those higher up the social hierarchy, such as samurai and ...

Japan’s Edo Period (1603-1867) was a time of peace and stability when various arts and technologies became well developed. At the top of the social hierarchy was the samurai warrior class. So ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...

and violence in Edo-period Japan – with varying degrees of accuracy. Japanese society was strictly stratified at this time, as the series frequently references. The hierarchy was ranked ...