HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Question
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The military power of the samurai had fallen dramatically.
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Women in Japanese society had very few rights.
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Tokugawa rulers did not have full confidence in the daimyo’s loyalty.
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Tokugawa rulers were willing to risk war to prevent a European presence in Japan.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did Tokugawa rulers take control of Japan’s feudal system? They used the hostage system, in which daimyo were required to maintain two residences and their families had travel restrictions, to guarantee loyalty to the shogun.
Detailed explanation-2: -The hostage system helped the shogun control the daimyo by giving them hostages to use against the daimyo who could not take action against the government without risking their families. Through the hostage system, the family of the daimyo would stay at their residence at the capital anytime the shogunate was away.
Detailed explanation-3: -Daimyo were required to maintain residences in Edo as well as their fiefs, and to move periodically between Edo and their fiefs, typically spending alternate years in each place, in a practice called sankin-kōtai.
Detailed explanation-4: -The isolation of Japan during the Tokugawa period affected the daimyo because they lost them and served as local rulers after the Tokugawa shogunate took control over the region. On the other end, the Tokugawa shogunate kept Japan in isolation to prevent foreigners from accessing the region and tempering its affairs.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a feudal system, with each daimyō administering a han (feudal domain), although the country was still nominally organized as imperial provinces.