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 * Changes of Power in Social Classes**

Since 1603 the Tokugawa period had many social classes for example there were geishas, samurais, merchants, shoguns,Daimyos, and coolies. During the Edo period the shogun became a figurehead of authority therefore ending up with minimum power.The rise of merchants changed the social class power. Not only them, but the Daimyo did this as well by establishing the Sankin Kotai system.