Included on these shelves are forty of the most important books on the Bakumatsu era (“end of the shogunate,” 1853 – 1868) that I’ve referred to in my writing over the years (but by no means all of them).

Think big! Create! 

Add to the above, the following major piece of Bakumatsu historical literature: the biography of the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, by Shibusawa Eiichi, a former samurai in service of the Bakufu, along with three volumes of related materials from Tokyo University Press.