This book is about the history of Japan, specially the Edo period. Read about Tokugawa Shogunate and the Tokugawa clan as well as the Shimabara Rebellion and Kansei reforms. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.