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Introduction, Donald Richie; Chapter 1 The Birth of Edo and the Tokugawa Shoguns; Chapter 2 Ieyasu and the Building of Edo; Chapter 3 The Struggle for Power; Chapter 4 Ieyasu as Shogun; Chapter 5 The Daimyo at Edo; Chapter 6 Hidetada Closes Japan; Chapter 7 The Story of Shogun Iemitsu; Chapter 8 Early Edo: Low Life & High Life; Chapter 9 The Fourth Shogun, Ietsuna,& the Sad Tale of Sakura Sogoro; Chapter 10 Shogun Tsunayoshi, Kaempfer and the 47 Ronin; Chapter 11 The Genroku Era (1688?€“1703); Chapter 12 Kabuki, the Yoshiwara & Shogun Ienobu; Chapter 13 Edo at the Beginning of the 18th Century; Chapter 14 The Life & Times of Yoshimune the Eighth Shogun; Chapter 15 Shogun Ieharu & the End of the 18th Century; Chapter 16 Life in Edo in the Early 19th Century; Chapter 17 Commodore Perry Challenges the Shogun ?€” and Wins; Chapter 18 The First Foreigners Arrive in Edo; Chapter 19 Yoshinobu ?€” the Last Shogun; Chapter 20 Edo Becomes Tokyo: Japan's Modernisation Begins; Chapter 21 The 20th Century: Troubled Beginnings; Chapter 22 The Greath Earthquake of 1923 & the Showa Era; Conclusion;