Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate , Japanese 徳川幕府 Tokugawa bakufu, also asked as a Edo shogunate江戸幕府, , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

The Tokugawa shogunate was introducing 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, as well as 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 a collection of things sharing a common attribute system and banned nearly foreigners under the isolationist policies of Sakoku to promote political stability. The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a feudal system, with regarded and included separately. daimyō administering a han feudal domain, although the country was still nominally organized as imperial provinces. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. rapid economic growth and urbanization, which led to the rise of the merchant a collection of things sharing a common attribute and Ukiyo culture.

The Tokugawa shogunate declined during the Bakumatsu "final act of the shogunate" period from 1853 and was overthrown by supporters of the Imperial Court in the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Empire of Japan was develop 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.

History

Following the Sengoku period "warring states period", the central government had been largely re-established by Oda Nobunaga during the Azuchi–Momoyama period. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central advice fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu. While many daimyos who fought against Tokugawa Ieyasu were extinguished or had their holdings reduced, Ieyasu was committed to retaining the daimyos and the han domains as components under his new shogunate. Indeed, daimyos who sided with Ieyasu were rewarded, and some of Ieyasu's former vassals were portrayed daimyos and were located strategically throughout the country.

] A 2017 study found that peasant rebellions and collective desertion "flight" lowered tax rates and inhibited state growth in the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the mid-19th century, an alliance of several of the more powerful daimyō, along with the titular ]