The Tokugawa Period

INTRODUCTION

The Tokugawa period was in between 1603 – 1868. The time of peace and order in feudal japan was c.1400-1860. The subjects I will talking about are artisans, rōnin, merchants and daimyo.

ARTISANS
During the Middle Ages, the word artisan was applied to those who made stuff or provided tasks other people could not do. It did not apply to unskilled manual labourers. Artisans were divided into 2 very distinct groups: those who operated their very own businesses and those who did not. Those that owned their very own businesses and companies were referred to as masters by most people, while the latter were the journeymen and apprentices. One big error many, most or even the majority of people have about this social group is that
Individuals who choose not to honor the ritual was on his own for ever and was going to suffer extraordinary shame. The undesirability of rōnin status was mainly a discrimination imposed by other samurai and by daimyo and the feudal lords.
During the Edo period, with the shogunate's rigid class system and laws, the number of rōnin massively increased. Confiscation of fiefs during the long rule of the third Tokugawa shogun iemitsu resulted in an especially humongous increase of rōnin. During previous ages, samurai were able to move between masters anytime and even between occupations. They would also marry between other classes. However, during the Edo period, samurai were limited, and were forbidden to become employed by another master without their old/previous master's
the were commonly seen as cheats or people who are unjust because of their nature for craving money this is why most Japanese in the edo period saw them this way, as people who took honest people's money. but as the population of japan grew the need for food water and clothes became more and more and soon the merchants became richer and richer until now the samurais were struggling to keep up. then at the end of the late edo period the merchants were one of the richest, wealthiest and highest social classes I all japan and even now they are still one of the richest it's just we don't call them merchants they have other names like Sony, Samsung and Toshiba.

DAIMYO

Daimyo are the powerful feudal lords in pre modern japan dai literally means large and myo stands for private land there are lots of different daimyo like shugo-daimyo and sengoku-daimyo. the shugo daimyo were the first group of men to ever hold the title daimyo they arouse from among the shugo during the muromachi period, the shugo daimyo held not only military powers and police powers, but also economic power within a province. They accumulated these powers throughout the first few decades of the Muromachi