Kowner, Rotem (2017). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest (2nd изд.). Rowman & Littlefield. стр. 540. ISBN9781442281844. Приступљено 1. 7. 2023. „Originally named Edo, the city served as the focal point of the Kanto region from the 12th century. It fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu at the end of the 16th century and was made the capital of his shogunate in 1603. Kyoto remained the imperial capital until 1868.”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
Yamagishi, Keiko (2016). Ferrari, Silvio; Cristofori, Rinaldo, ур. Law and Religion, An Overview. 1. Routledge. стр. 458. ISBN978-1-4094-3600-3. Приступљено 31. 5. 2023. „The Tokugawa Shogunate had sanctioned Buddhism as a state religion.”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
Calabresi, Steven Gow (2021). The History and Growth of Judicial Review. 2. Oxford University Press. стр. 116. ISBN9780190075750. Приступљено 31. 5. 2023. „A dew sexteenth-century Chiristian missionaries left a small following in Japan, but from 1600 until 1853, the countory was governed by the Tokugawa Shogunate banned Christianity, forbade travel overseas, and only allowed foreign trade in the port of Nagasaki with the Netherlands and China. Confucianism, with its emphasis on harmony, was the prevailing "state religion", although it coexisted with Shintoism, a religion that worshipped nature gods and that was personified by the emperor.”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)
„Shogunate”. britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Приступљено 21. 10. 2020. „The shogunate was the hereditary military dictatorship of Japan (1192–1867).”CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза)