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Tokugawa shogunate
Overview
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo shogunate, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars of the Sengoku period following the collapse of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ieyasu became the shōgun, and the Tokugawa clan governed Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city of Edo (Tokyo) along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class.
The Tokugawa shogunate organized Japanese society under the strict Tokugawa class system and banned the entry of most foreigners under the isolationist policies of sakoku to promote political stability. Japanese subjects were also barred from leaving the country. The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a feudal system, with each daimyō administering a han (feudal domain), although the country was still nominally organized as imperial provinces. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan experienced rapid economic growth and urbanization, which led to the rise of the merchant class and Ukiyo culture.
The Tokugawa shogunate declined during the Bakumatsu period from 1853 and was overthrown by supporters of the Imperial Court in the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Empire of Japan was established under the Meiji government, and Tokugawa loyalists continued to fight in the Boshin War until the defeat of the Republic of Ezo at the Battle of Hakodate in June 1869.
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Lastly, there was the great class of the small farmers, the peasantry, which with its appendix of farm laborers, constitutes a considerable majority of the entire nation. But this class again sub-divided itself into different fractions.
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
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Then Bushido will come into play, and will lead to choice of the battlefield in preference to starvation. Admiral Sato[91] (the Japanese Bernhardi, as he is called) maintains that absence of Bushido in the Americans will lead to their defeat, and that their money-grubbing souls will be incapable of enduring the hardships and privations of a long war. This, of course, is romantic nonsense. Bushido is no use in modern…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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Many people do all their buying there, because there are fixed prices with a reward for a discovery of any place where the same goods are sold cheaper, and absolute honesty as to quality. But they also said that was the easy way to visit Japan and learn about the clothes, ornaments, toys, etc., and also to see the people, as the Japanese from all over the country come there to see the sights. There were a group of…
John Dewey, Letters from China and Japan
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Philosophers who discussed Tokugawa shogunate
- Hayashi Razan
- Itō Jinsai
- Kumazawa Banzan
- Ogyū Sorai
- Inoue Enryō
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Yamaga Sokō
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
- Nishi Amane
Related ideas
- Social stratification
- Isolationism
- Japan
- Edo period
- Empire of Japan
- Netherlands
- Nationalism
- Qing dynasty
- Meiji Restoration
- Shinto
- Samurai
- Shingon Buddhism
- Tokyo
- Tax
- Joseon
- Lexico
- Oxford University Press
- Catholic Church
- Routledge
- Sengoku period
- Meiji era
Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.