EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tokugawa Hidetada, Edo Period, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
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Names to remember: (1) oda nobunaga (2) toyotomi hideyoshi (3) tokugawa ieyasu (4) tokugawa hidetada. Tokugawa iemitsu (1604-1651) (5) tokugawa iemitsu (6) tokugawa ietsuna (7) tokugawa tsunayoshi (dog shogun) First guy with no real connection to a warrior lifestyle. From this point: moving away from actual fighting/bushido people to a more social class structure they wear their swords as symbol of their status, rather than as a weapon samurais not exactly seen as warriors anymore. Accomplishment to consolidate his power, to his establish lineage and his family"s prestige. Moves capital to edo officially leads to sankin kotai military assistance. Edo already functioning as the head of the tokugawa family iemitsu"s move made it become the official capital and established that lords must live in edo, as well as coming in to do military service. Difficult to represent edo most depictions of edo shows late edo not early edo. Edo emerged as a big, busy city becomes tokyo.
