Toledo_Tokugagwa_Project

=**Tokugawa Period Society**= Tokugawa ruled over Japan from 1603-1868, this period is known as the "Great Peace". Tokugawa family's tradional domain was the Edo. to centralize power and assert its authority over any rival regional lords, the Tokugawa shogunate issued and enforced social laws. These laws were based on Confucian ideals of the well ordered society. The Tokugawa government's rules and regulations reguarding the four social classes, Samurai, farmers, artisains, and merchants. The highest social rank was Samurai. By law samurai could not engage in trade of farming. During this period of time samurai grew poor, their incomes were still paid in fixed amount of rice but had to trade their rice for cash with the merchants the bottom of the Tokugawa social class. The next class would be the farmers who build roads, houses, and government structures required skilled labor. castle towns grew dramactically through the period as they became regional centers of trade and government administration. By 1700 Osaka port city, and comercial had a population of 400,000, by the same year edo's population had grown to 1 million, making it one of the largest cities in the world. The next social class would be farmers, farmers made 90% of the population became increasingly well off during the period. When more land was available for agriculture, farming techniques improved and food production grew. Artisans supplied the skilled labor to build the great castle towns and to maintain and build the roads, bridges, buildings, and infrastructure of an urbanizing society. Artisans is the third socail class in the Tokugawa period. Merchants at the officailly at the bottom of the Tokugawa socail struture benefited from the period econmic growth. The merchant class created a new style of life and art, flaunting their wealth and power by enjoying the theatre, boating parties, frequenting restraunts and teahouses. Their lavish lifestyle was celebrated and recorded in woodblock prints of the period.

In this image it shows that in this time period that the respected their leaders greatly.

In this image the women are running their buisness this in society was important because in this time the mechants started to gain wealth.

in this picture it shows that their traveling in the tokugawa period they started to travel for many reasons and some reason where to expand their buisness.

in this image it showed how they would work and also the intertament they had back then.

in this image it shows that they had to travel a lot because of the shogun.

in this image they show how much they traveled. and in this image it shows that they were expanding thier buisnesses.