After Hideyoshi's death, when Ieyasu Tokugawa defeated the Battle of Sekigahara and power was held, he started the government to Edo, and he ruined Mr. Toyotomi with Osaka's role.
In 1603, Ieyasu Tokugawa who became a generalissimo shogun started the Edo Shogunate.
I was going to build up a mechanism of the national rule by the samurai to a strong mosquito more.
The personnel was reshuffled so that it might obstruct each other's 250 or so whole country daimyo.
The Laws for the Military Houses were made, the daimyo and the samurai were controlled, or the structure of the daimyo's alternate-year residence in Edo was built, and many daimyos' power was suppressed.
The Shogunate had large territories of a quarter of the whole country.
Main city and mine were also ruled and huge wealth was saved.
The shogunate feared the spread of the Christianity and becoming of politics instability, and closed the country.
Popular trade with a foreign country declined and was behind schedule in progress of the world.
On the other hand, peaceful will continue over 200 years within the country.
The class system of common people was the hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants, called Shinokosho, and the samurai controlled the others.
The educational system in the Edo period was polarized, reflecting the hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans and merchants in Edo society.
It's because a life with a warrior was supported with the land tax a farmer puts in, that I was a farmer next to the warrior.
The farmer was forced to hard life.
On the other hand a craftsman and a merchant didn't receive farmer's severe control.
A samurai's command had to be followed absolutely after all.
But when business became increasingly popular, a merchant came to save big wealth gradually.
The merchant and the craftsman produced new townspeople's culture out of the life which became rich gradually.
Kabuki, Ukiyoe, a Novel, and Senryu can be said to be the typical thing.(Kasei culture)
The politics of a government is being stuck gradually.
The Kyoho Reforms, Reform of the Kansei era, the Tenpou Reforms, etc. It was carried out one after another.
But neither succeeded.
Beside Japanese classical literature and European learning spread the voice that opposes the politics of the shogunate rose.
The perry fleet which arrived at Uraga in Japan in 1854 demanded the opening of a country.
The inside of Japan was in disorder.
And the Shogunate is overthrown by an effort of allied forces in Satsuma and Choushuu, and samurai government has ended.
