Japan
Subtitle: A Modern History
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780393041569
First sentence: On the afternoon of the twelfth day of the Second Month 1603, Tokugawa leyasu donned a scarlet mantle of ceremony and settled himself on a dais in Fushimi Castle, a Tokugawa fortress just south of Kyoto.