Life in Edo

The Edo period

Introduction

The Edo period, also known as the Tokugawa period is a division of Japanese history, which runs from March 24th of 1603 until May 3 of 1868. The government defines the period of Tokugawa Shogunate or Edo, which was also formally established in 1603 by the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa. The Edo period ended in 1868 with the restoration of imperial rule by the 15th and last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The aim of the Edo period is also characterized by the early imperial period.

Edo Period refers to the approximately 270 years from 1603 until 1867. During this time, there is a chance, will be replaced in the West immediately after summing math is math unique to Japan is established in the early Edo period, was the Meiji period. It was simply the history of Japanese mathematics across the time period that matches perfectly with the history of the Edo period, i.e. The early Edo period, describes the situation of summing up to about the 1660s from the 1600s that is the first time.

Discussion

After a long period of internal conflict, the first objective of the newly established Tokugawa shogunate was to pacify the country. Created a balance of power remained relatively stable for the next 250 years, influenced by the principles of Confucianism to social order. Most samurai lost their direct possession of the land and were given two options to disarm and become farmers or move to the main town of his fief and become paid servants of the daimyo. Only a few samurai remained in the outer provinces of the north or as direct vassals of the shogun, known as the hatamoto. System was also established sankin kotai which stipulated that the families of daimyo had to reside in Edo, in addition to the daimyo had to remain in Edo for one year and the following year in his province.

The Edo Period was a period of Japanese history spanning from 1600 to 1868, which ruled the Tokugawa dynasty and was named in honor of the city of Edo (now Tokyo). The Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 actually began with the appointment as shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, and concluded in 1867 with the withdrawal of Tokugawa Yoshinobu. After centuries of civil war, the Edo period provided 250 years of peace, prosperity and progress for Japan, which, nevertheless, remained closed to the outside and maintained a rigid feudal hierarchy. The shogunate feared contact with alien civilizations because it could endanger national stability and the supremacy of his regime, so officially banned from traveling abroad to all Japanese and completely cut off communication with the Japanese trading communities of the Philippines and elsewhere.

A mid-seventeenth century, the Tokugawa policy, despite his autocratic, had brought to Japan more peace and stability that the country had enjoyed for centuries: the consequence was an explosion and economic demographics. The population grew from 12 million in 1600 to about 31 million in 1720, and Edo, which began as a small village with 200 inhabitants, was ...