... the events of history within Japan as well as Japan's relations with outsiders. With seeds for the "restoration" brewing in the last years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Meiji Restoration ultimately exploded with changes that changed the character of the Japanese nation forever. Tokugawa rule is known as the Tokugawa shogunate. The shogun enforced the distinction between classes; the daimyo, the samurai, nobles at court, the peasants and the merchants. During the periods of peace under the ... Tokugawa shogunate the samurai had time to study ... ...

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