WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The shogunate was the hereditary military dictatorship of Japan (1192–1867). Legally, the shogun answered to the emperor, but, as Japan evolved into a feudal society, control of the military became tantamount to control of the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tokugawa Ieyasu’s dynasty of shoguns presided over 250 years of peace and prosperity in Japan, including the rise of a new merchant class and increasing urbanization. They also closed off Japanese society to Western influences.

Detailed explanation-3: -This was in some ways influenced by the Confucian idea that society was made up of four social classes. From the top-down, they were: warrior, farmer, artisan, and merchant. The shogun, daimyō, and samurai were the warrior class. Each class had its own function, and each was thought to contribute to social order.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Shoguns created a hierarchy in Japanese government and society called feudalism. Feudalism is a decentralized system of power in which land owned by a powerful person is divided up and given to others in exchange for work and a promise to fight for the interests of the land owner.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shōgun. The shōgun was the de facto ruler of Japan and third on the Tokugawa class hierarchy. Officially, the shōgun was a title for a prominent military general of the samurai class appointed by the Emperor with the task of national administration.