![]() ![]() What happened under the Tokugawa Shogunate was that because of the comparative peace, it was a wonderful period for the arts, the Ukiyo-e school of floating world pictures." They had mastered the art of porcelain, which they took from the Chinese and the Koreans. ![]() Silk was made in Japan at that time and there were high-class ceramics. And all the textiles and cloths were fantastic. ![]() They were very cultured in that way," she said. "It was an extremely sophisticated court at Edo. Mavis Pilbeam, the author of a children's book on Japan under the Shoguns and a British Museum librarian, said the relative peace enabled Japan's cultural life to flourish - painting, calligraphy, theatre and music were already a well-established part of upper-class life. He is remembered for his successful unification of Japan and for bequeathing it a long-absent stability through the establishment of the Tokugawa dynasty. But effectively his rule continued until his death, bolstered by having his children in positions of authority across Japan and by tactics such as holding the wives and families of the territorial lords hostage at the Shogun palace at Edo (later Tokyo). Tokugawa Ieyasu was Shogun for a couple of years before ceding power to one of his five sons. ![]()
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