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Key

The Tokugawa shōguns and their lords The Toyotomi house and its allies The emperor and the court Japan's Christians and the missions Dutch and English traders The kingdom of Ryūkyū bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Battle of Sekigahara — Wikipedia (the campaign of 1600, Hideaki's defection, the settlement) — source
  2. 関ヶ原の戦い / 徳川家康 — Japanese Wikipedia (Osaka in 1599–1600, the council at Oyama, the reduction of the Mōri, Sunpu 1607) — source
  3. Invasion of Ryukyu, 1609 — Wikipedia (Satsuma's expedition, Shō Nei at Sunpu and Edo, the oaths of 1611) — source
  4. William Adams — Wikipedia (the Liefde, Itō, the Dutch at Hirado in 1609) — source
  5. 岡本大八事件 / 禁教令 — Japanese Wikipedia (the Arima affair, the bans of 1612 and 1614, Sūden's edict) — source
  6. 方広寺鐘銘事件 — Japanese Wikipedia (the bell inscription, Katagiri Katsumoto's mission and flight) — source
  7. Siege of Osaka — Wikipedia (the winter peace, Tennōji, the end of the Toyotomi) — source
  8. Tenkai — Wikipedia (the gongen and myōjin dispute, Nikkō) — source
  9. 紫衣事件 / 徳川忠長 — Japanese Wikipedia (the purple robes, Takuan's exile, Tadanaga's fall) — source
  10. Shimabara Rebellion — Wikipedia (Matsukura misrule, Hara Castle, the Dutch ship) — source
  11. フランソワ・カロン — Japanese Wikipedia (Inoue Masashige's order at Hirado, 1640) — source
  12. 慶安の変 / 保科正之 — Japanese Wikipedia (Yui Shōsetsu's plot, the Meireki fire and the unbuilt keep) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Japan, 1600–1660

How did the lord who won Sekigahara in 1600 build a shogunate that a boy of ten could inherit?
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