Tokugawa Period During this period, the shogunate enforced a system called 参勤交代, which required regional lords to leave their families as hostages in Edo, keeping the daimyo loyal and the power centralised. (jan 1, 1603 – jan 1, 1867)
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jan 1, 1603
jan 1, 1867
~ 264 years