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- Figurhead (no real power)
Daimyo
feudal lord
Ronin
masterless samurai
Warrior class 7% of the population
84% of the population
Artisans and builders
Merchants
U
Lowest class but quite wealthy
11. Assembled Samurai
Suit of Armour I Armure de samourai assemblee Armour, 18th/19th century, lacquered iron, silk braid Helmet and Face Mask
OPPOSITE
12. Yoshitora Ichimosai
(active 1850-80)
Tokugawa Commander Sakai Tadatsugu / Off icier Tokugawa Sakai Tadatsugu Woodblock print
Sakai Tadatsugu (1527-1596) was one of the most favoured and successful samurai commanders who served Tokugawa leyasu. His clan was eventually designated as trusted inner daimyo.
neo-Confucianism was promoted as the dominant state philosophy in Japan and the major source for the unwritten ethical code of a nation highly conscious of the importance of social status and rank. The Tokugawa government encouraged the study of Confucianism because it was well-suited to its aim of maintaining a stable social and political order. The entire nation was indoctrinated in the creed of absolute loyalty and conformity. This creed emphasized the appropriate relationship between the rulers and the ruled, and fostered a deep sense of loyalty to the Tokugawa regime. It was during this time that a persons position in society became firmly fixed. There was a clear division between the ruling warrior class and all other classes, and intermarriage between the classes was strictly forbidden. Below the shogun, the land-owning feudal lords {daimyo) and the various ranks of samurai warriors, came the farmers or peasants, the artisans and then, at the bottom, the despised merchants who were considered a non-productive class.
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