Japanese History Documents. This paper examines two sets of Japanese documents: One from approximately 500 A. D. and one, a millennium later, from the Tokugawa shogunate. They are compared and contrasted. The earliest documents are mythical and religious in tone the latter deal with the bureaucratization of society particularly the Samurai class. Pages: 7 Bibliography: 5 source(s) listed Filename: 13620 Japanese History Documents.doc Price: 62.65