Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume 9 | Issue 4
A Study of Feudal Coalition and Control System in Tokugawa Japan
Ajoy Kumar Das
DOI:10.30954/2249-6637.04.2020.13
Abstract:
This article is about political scenario of early Edo period and successfully controlling over feudal coalition of local lords and various control measures of Tokugawa system. Beginning with the Onin War, Japan slipped into the century of sporadic civil war known as Sengokujidai or Warring State period in which local feudal lords (daimyo) ignored the shogunate and the imperial court and struggled with each other for local hegemony. From the mid-16th century, a movement towards national reunification gradually emerged out of the violence of the warring feudal domains and was carried through by three powerful hegemons, and they were successful in controlling the feudal coalition. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effective role and policies of Tokugawa system. This paper focuses how the feudal coalition was controlled and features of control measures adopted by Tokugawa Japan and effectively maintained the political status quo, but at the same time they promoted economic changes that slowly undermined the Tokugawa order.
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