JAPAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Edo Period, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Satsuma Domain
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Edo period: the emergence of town people and their cultures, theater districts, pleasure quarters. Tokugawa ieyasu originally made edo his military hq after hideyoshi moved him to. The era of the tokugawa shogunate was known as the great peace bc it lasted over. An age of great prosperity and population growth (the flourishing of the townspeople culture) 1602: ieyasu moves capital to edo (the beginning of edo period) 1605: ieyasu resigns in favor of his son hidetada; acts as retired shogun until his death. Consolidated the power of the tokugawa shogunate during the reigns of ieyasu, his son. Hidetada, and his grandson iemitsu (in total from 1603-1651: the establishment of the tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) Tokugawas shogunate"s control of the feudal lords (daimyo) and domains. Daimyo - a feudal lord who governs a domain: three types of daimyo. Tokugawa branch families (shinpan ) av 500k koku. Outside daimyo (tozama): many over 100k koku i) ii) iii)
