To try and understand the personality of Tokugawa Ieyasu he said this to the bird that would not sing:

One of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s policies was to freeze:

Toward the last years of life, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was relieved and overjoyed by:

Japan was in the _____________ Period when Westerners first came to Japan.

In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered this taken away from the farmers:

In the Prologue it is noted that from the time of Francis Xavier ________ had been the gateway to all missionary labor in the East.

Visitor Valignano noted that Inoue was the new terror against Christians in Japan. And a sad fact about this was that Inoue:

While Mokichi and Ichizo were being tortured, they sang this song that had this phrase:

Mokichi, Ichizo, and Kichijirō trampled on the fumie. But the Japanese officials were not convinced by this act, so they told them to do this to prove they were not Christians:

One way that Japan increased its military numbers was changing the recruiting requirements with regard to: