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The Tokugawa period was a perod of rapid urbanization.This changed alot of its society and jobs that people did. Samurais were to be bureaucrats and could not engage in trade or merchants. Farmers and merchants beacame very wealthy but still at the bottom of the social classes.

In this woodblock print you can see that society in the Tokugawa period was very diverse. As you can see one of the Daimyo precession was going on. Merchants around this time were starting to become healthy. In the following woodblock print you can see that the castles that belong to the higher social classes are apart from the urbanization. In this image you can also see a Daimyo precession occuring but they are going into the castle.

As you can see the period of rapid urbanization turned Surugacho into what you can call a market. People such as merchants would often go to Surugacho to sell the goods they had gotten from the Daimyo.

Merchants during the Tokugawa period were very popular and became really wealthy. Due to the social class they were born into they were still at the bottom of the social classes. Many merchants would go and sell their goods to places like Surugacho due to the population of the town.

Samurais during the Tokugawa period went through alot. They went from fighting to been beurocrats and not being able to fight. Once they lost their honor or respect they had to commit suicide. That was the Tokugawa period also known as the period of rapid urbanization.