Giner-Tokugawa-Project

=The types of classes in Tokugawa.=

In the Tokugawa period there was many social cultural changes. There were many classes in the Tokugawa period, the classes are: on the top is the emperor, followed by the samurai, some were put in a higher power, next by merchants and artisans, and the lowest were the, entertainers, day laborers, and servants. In The emperor was called Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was in power from 1603 to 1605, he then got abdicated in 1605, but he remained in power, until he passed away in 16the classes the highest person was the emperor, and he had a court of nobility, the power was passed on by generations, usually by heredity. There was along line of shoguns that followed. 16. The economy in the Tokugawa period was 80% of them people grew rice, the rice paddies grew significantly in little over a year, low status people were usually the ones that grew rice, large scaled rice planting also became very big. Financially they were doing great. But shortly the Daimyos raise taxes to the farmers, but not the business, so they fell into debt.They were forced to cut back. Everyone knew their place and status where they lived.