Continuities in this transition such as: Proto-industrialization in the Tokugawa era sets the stage for Meiji industrial development. The elite samurai remain in leadership, wielding power behind the ...

reveals that Western modernization and the demand for exports influenced Japanese ceramics during the transitional period of the late Edo period to the Meiji period.

For centuries, Japan had existed in a feudal state, a world apart from the rapid industrialisation and global power struggles ...