EAS105H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Edo Period, Hatamoto, Commercial Revolution
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Most villages had at least one dominant family, often descended from a rusticated . Warrior, which monopolized the position of headman. Honbyakusho households family members, house servants, and field workers. Across japan, social, economic, and political inequality structured village life. Shogun had the largest domain concentrated chiefly in eastern and central japan totaling appro. Vassal daimyo ( ) (fudai) were hereditary retainers governed domains, served as the shogun"s chief advisers and his first line of defense against potential foes. Tokugawa shoguns developed an elaborate bureaucratic structure bakufu . Senior councilors took responsibility for policy decisions, personnel matters, and supervising the daimyo. Their assistants, also vassal daimyo, handled matters relating to the shogun"s retainers. The hatamoto staffed the administrative positions, beginning with the magistrates in charge of finances, cities, and temples and shrines. The shogunal and domainal governments developed the most complex, sophisticated and coherent bureaucracies japan had ever seen.
