🎧 Japan's Edo Period and the "Floating World"
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After a century of Civil War, changes in the way Japan was ruled from 1600 onwards meant that Europeans and Christianity made few inroads into Japanese society. Shogun Tokugawa organised Japan into a strict class system and its unique and brilliant culture flourished in isolation. Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more with Japan expert Timon Screech.
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