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In the Tokugawa period, Japan was governed by a feudal government run by the Tokugawa family with some economic and cultural flourishing. The role of astronomers was the making of the lunisolar calendar, which occurred four times. In parallel, Western cosmology from Aristotle to Newton was introduced by civilians, particularly Dutch interpreters, in Nagasaki. The Tokugawa period is an age of prehistory of modern astronomy in Japan.
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Kogure, T. (2021). Astronomy in the Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868. In: The History of Modern Astronomy in Japan. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57061-3_1
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