throughout the almost three hundred years of the regime it was run by Tokugawa shoguns. The Tokugawa period lasted from 1600 to 1867 during which time the Tokugawa family became the unchallenged rulers of Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a powerful Honshu daimyo. Ieyasu rode the coat tails of his predecessor‚ Hideyoshi‚ and because Hideyoshi put Ieyasu on a five member Board of Regents he already had power and control of his own. But after Hideyoshi’s death
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below the Emperor in the feudal system‚ but he was the one who put in the most work and effort. The Shogun was the military leader and was in charge of making the decisions for the armies‚ battles‚ etc. The Daimyos served the Shoguns and were the next class in the Japanese feudal system. The Daimyos were powerful figures who
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revolts‚ most of the new daimyo were former samurai. With these new daimyo in power‚ they began to clash with one another. This infighting erupted into a civil war that eventually ended with no apparent victor. This became known as the “Era of Independent Lords”. Then‚ in the 1500s‚ a new kind of warfare was introduced to Japan. Europeans began arriving in Japan‚ bringing with them gunpowder weapons. With that kind of power in their hands‚ more conflicts flared up between daimyo. By the end of the
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then slowly rose up in position. He left his home to work for the daimyo‚ of Totomi. A short period of time later‚ he went back home and became a foot soldier for Oda Nobunaga‚ who was a really good Japanese leader at that time. A summarized history of Oda Nobunaga‚ he was the son of Oda Nobuhide‚ who was a minor daimyo in Owari province‚ which is now a part of Aichi prefecture in central Honshu. Nobuhide even though he was a minor daimyo‚ he controlled the area around the city of Nagoya‚ and accumulated
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Kamakura shogunate‚ 1st of 3 milit dyn that ruled J for approx 700 yrs A. The World of Warriors Oft shogun cntrlled only smll prt of J – distributed lands to vassal lords who agreed to sup him w/ their armies in time of need (lords called daimyo) → Daimyo granted land to lesser warriors (samurai‚ fighting aristocracy of land) Samurai – heavily armed & trained in skills of fighting‚ delvp own code of values (bushido) : emph honor bravery & absolute loyalty to lord‚ no fear in death Samurai
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Hideyoshi to found the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. Under his rule‚ their government was centralized feudalism‚ because the outward appearance of a feudal society was kept‚ but imposed central government control. A unified‚ controlled society was created‚ daimyos were controlled‚ and stricter laws on the social order were put in
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key events was the ‘Closed CountryPolicy’ which made a big impact against the foreigners causing restrictions on Japan to not let foreigners to enter for two centuries. It wasn’t just that‚ which caused problems with Japan. Back in 1603 a powerful daimyo named Tokugawa Ieyasu who was declared to be shogun and for the next two and a half centuries his descendants also took the name to be the shogun‚ this made a difference in the feudal society.
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han were the domains headed by daimyo. Vassals held inherited lands and provided military service and homage to their lords. The Bakuhan Taisei split feudal power between the shogunate in Edo and provincial domains throughout Japan. Provinces had a degree of sovereignty and were allowed an independent administration of the Han in exchange for loyalty to the Shogun‚ who was responsible for foreign relations and national security. The shogun and lords were all daimyo: feudal lords with their own bureaucracies
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Samurai Warriors did not back down it was called an honor to die in the name of the emperor‚ want to know why? Because of a code called Bushido. The most important thing to a samurai warrior was to follow the bushido code. Bushido was important to Samurai because it was a code taught to them by their master. The Bushido code stated that all Samurai Warriors were required by their master to be loyal to the Shogun no matter what happened to them. The Bushido code stated that even though they were
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the central government were declining? DK: Daimyos had a lot of power because of the vast amount of land they had. The government was losing money because they didn’t pay taxes. Me: Following that why did you think daimyos didn’t pay taxes? DK: Well‚ they had a lot more power than the government. Having more power than the government they probably didn’t feel like it and grew even more power while the government weakened. Me: Then‚ why did the daimyos fight for land? DK: The land helped to increase
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