The Tokugawa Period

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also important to study the period for better insight into the countries modernization. Before the country modernized, the system ruling over the civilization was one very similar to those which once ruled over European societies.
The periods preceding the Tokugawa Japan were known specifically by their feudal nature. Much like the medieval years of Britain and of Europe, the Japanese feudal system was based on survival of the strongest. What this implies is that whoever had the strongest army supporting them would hold the most power (Nnakane). In this type of system, there was constant battling among different factions to gain power. Bordering land parcels were always being won and lost between the feuding families, and for those peasants living on these lands times were very uncertain.
was characterized by a political society that was constantly held back in the feudal age. At the same time that growth weaned eminent the powers that controlled Japan during this period ...

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the daimyo, for it was the diamyo who served to hold down the local areas in Japan.
The most important philosophy of Tokugawa Japan was Neo-Confucianism, stressing the importance of morals, education and hierarchical order in the goverment and society. The society was placed into a strict four class system. At the top of the social hierarchy stood the samurai, followed by the peasants, artisans and merchants. The members of the four classes were not allowed to change their social status. Outcastes (eta), people with professions that were considered impure, formed a discriminated fifth class (Japanese history).
As the politics of Tokugawa Japan progressed out of its beginning stages and ...

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