books.google.com - andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class. After 1603, with the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Handbook_to_life_in_medieval_and_early_m.html?id=i0ni1NmbYe0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHandbook to life in medieval and early modern Japan