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Tokugawa Shogunate
Tokugawa Crest
Tokugawa Ieyasu: Founder
BIBLIOGRAPHY: - http://www.japan101.com/history /history_tokugawa_shogunate.htm -http://www.wisegeek.com/what-was-the-tokugawa-shogunate.htm -http://www.britannica.com/EBche cked/topic/598326/Tokugawa-period -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdt6DtJH2u8 -http://flickr.com/photos/stachka/2336672563/ -http://flickr.com/photos/sechs/359914230/ -http://www.archives.go.jp/english/ ourholdings/images/photo15.jpg
OVERVIEW: The Tokugawa Shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (aka the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship. It was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city of Edo, now Tokyo.
1603 - 1868
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SIGNIFICANCE: The Tokugawa Shogunate had power over land, and could disperse annex or transform lands held by the daimyo at will. The Tokugawa Shogunate also controlled all foreign trade, enforces heavy penalties on those who traded outside the Shogunate. Until 1635, Japan traded widely across the Pacific with numerous ships.
Began in Edo
TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE
The rule of the Shogunate was a period of advancement in Japan; leisure arts began to be valued. The Tokugawa Shogunate saw an explosion of woodblock prints such as those created by Hokusai, a flowering of geisha culture, and many advancements in the arts and letters. The Shogunate valued many Confucian values and incorporated them into Japanese culture to create pensive works of art, literature, and theatre.
As shogun, Ieyasu achieved hegemony over the entire country by balancing the power of potentially hostile domains (tozama) with strategically placed allies (fudai) and collateral houses (shimpan). In 1635, Ieyasu’s successor required the domainal lords, or daimyo, to maintain households and reside in Edo. This resulted in a system of semi-autonomous domains directed by the central authority of theTokugawa shogunate lasted for over 250 years.
Tokugawa Ieyasu Parade
Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. It is at the end of the Edo period and preceded the Meiji era.
