Cabrera_Tokugawa_Project

=__Rise of the Merchants__= During the edo period th merchant class enjoyed a rise in their social and economic status. There rise helped them afford things they would never think they could afford, like an education, and all the little things of luxury. When the merchants rised up they encouraged the growth of art and helped spread culture. Eventhough the samurai were the highest class in the biginning of the Edo Period by the end the Merchants which had many similarities to the Samurai rised up and made the higher class better.

View of Kinryuzan and Azuma Bridge from the river at Asakusa
In this image their is a daimyo procession and merchants pasing over the bridge to the Daimyo mansions.

Fish Market at Nihonbashi
This image showes merchants in a fish market buying or trading items.

Meguro Fudo
This is an image of the castle of the samurai when the merchants rised up and took over the higher class.

Kabuki performance at Saruwakacho
When merchants rised up to the higher class the could afford luxuries like this to go and enjoy a perfomance at a theatre.