Essays on Tokugawa Shogunate

The sudden death of a ruler, a defeat in war, or a successful revolution has often led to the collapse of a government. Political, social, and economic changes have occurred as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Tokugawa Shogunate Although...

Tokugawa family control Japan amid the Edo period (1516-1867), as each progressive head accepts the rank of shogun. This is given by the Emperor who, amid this period, is only a non-entity without political power. The Tokugawa shogunate applies absolute control over their kin and...

Before international contact and trade was established between Asia and Europe; specifically Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate employed an incredibly rigid social order. Initially, Japanese subjects were trapped into the status that they were born into with no mobility, but as the Tokugawa period drew to...