Tokugawa Government (1 ene 1600 año – 1 ene 1868 año)

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A strong military family, the Tokugawa, was able to seize military control of every local daimyô in 1600. In Edo, now known as Tôkyô, the Tokugawa established a considerably more powerful bureaucratic military government. It had direct or indirect influence over every aspect of society, including the agricultural and business sectors.

Samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants were the four strata of society that the government legally distinguished. The Tokugawa government forced the daimyô to spend a portion of their time in Edo, the new military capital, and left their families in Edo as hostages whenever they returned to their domains because it was worried about a potential samurai rebellion (it had taken away the weapons of all other classes). Because so many people flocked to Edo in an effort to support the enormous samurai population, the city expanded significantly. In Edo, there were around a million residents by 1700. Over time, the Edo merchants who supplied the military outgrew their poverty and surpassed the samurai in wealth.Many societal segments were prepared for changes to the outdated legal and economic systems when Commodore Perry arrived in Japan from the United States in 1853 in search of business links. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan's feudal era came to an end.

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