Lady Ochiba: The Enigmatic Consort of the Tokugawa Shogunate
The Tokugawa Shogunate, a interval of unprecedented peace and prosperity, reshaped Japan for over two centuries. It was an period outlined by inflexible social constructions, highly effective shoguns, and a fancy internet of relationships inside the imperial court docket. Hidden inside the gilded cage of the Edo interval had been figures whose lives, although typically…