The shogun controlled 25% of the farmland,
licensed foreign trade,
operated gold mines,
and ruled major cites.
actual power was held by the shogun
Tokugawa was not a religion. The Tokugawa was a family dynasty of shoguns commencing with Ieyasu Tokugawa being invested as Shogun on the 2nd of December, 1603.
To make them eat lollipops
He isoloated it from Westerners
There wasn't any emperor, when Tokugawa Ieyasu united Japan, the Edo Period began and Japan isolated itself from the rest of the world. During that time Japan was ruled by shoguns. There were two forms of government, in one the daimyo (feudal lord), ruled a piece of land and he had to swear loyalty to the shogun. In the other form, the shogun ruled with the Bakufu that was like a council who advised the shogun . Both types of government worked together.
actual power was held by the shogun
The Shogun of the Tokugawa Bakufu lived in Edo Castle.
Tokugawa Ieyasu (with an I, not an L) was the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 until 1868. The Tokugawa clan took control after a long period of civil war known as the Sengoku Jidai, the "warring states period".Shogun basically means "commander in chief". The Shogun was the overall commander of the Japanese military from the end of the 1100s until 1868. Although the Tenno (emperor) was technically the ruler of Japan, the Shoguns were the real rulers during this time.
The Edo Period lasted roughly from 1603 to 1868. It was the time of the Tokugawa Bakufu. This period was called the Edo Period because Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun, established his capital in Edo (Present day Tokyo.)
During the Sengoku period, roughly 1467-1600 AD, powerful samurai leaders (daimyo) seized control of old feudal estates. The period ended with unification of Japan under the powerful Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
It was the Sengyoku Jida or Warring States Period. All of Japan was embroilled in a bitter conflcit that finally ended when Tokugawa became Shogun
There are several shogun with the family name of Tokugawa. It was a long line of military leaders that ruled Japan for centuries. If you are referring to the actual birth date of the first Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu, it would be 1543. If you are referring to the date the Tokugawa Bakufu, or Shogunate, was established, it would be 1603.
The role of the shogun was to take of a province and protect the emporer.
The Tokugawa Bakufu was ruled by a shogun, or military leader. The government of Meiji Japan was led by an Emperor.
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Tokugawa was not a religion. The Tokugawa was a family dynasty of shoguns commencing with Ieyasu Tokugawa being invested as Shogun on the 2nd of December, 1603.
Tokugawa Ieyoshi