The+Change+In+Social+Classes

There was a change between two social classes. The two social classes that changed were the samurai and the merchants the samurai became poor after a time period. Merchants were wealthy but they were at the bottom of the social classses, samurai were at the bottom but became poor because they couldnt farm or trade. During the [|Tokugawa] time period merchants became important because they were in charge of the trade.