HIST 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shinto Shrine, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Indirect Rule
11 Nov 2017
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Tenka taehei - great peace throughout the realm. Some peasant uprising and rogue, masterless samurai incidents. Ieyasu improved hideyoshi"s policy of indirect rule over daimyo by establishing 3 major categories. Shimpan - collateral descendants of tokugawa shogun. Fudai - descendants of those loyal to ieyasu before sekigahara battle. Tozama - outer daimyo, enemies or allies of ieyaso during sekigahara battle but became tokugawa vassals and allies. Daimyo could not marry without bakufu approval. Hostages in edo becomes compulsory in 1634. Bakufu = central power, han = remnants of feudalistic tendencies. Buddhist temples and shinto shrines place in rigid control. Buddhist temples became an arm of the government. Closing off of country aided with stability and peace. Basically listen to tokugawa and be their ally or suffer.
