Later in 1615, he announced a set of thirteen regulations known as the, "Buke Shohatto." They included the following regulations: "Daimyo must not give sanctuary to law breakers (refugees from Osaka for example); castle building and daimyo marriages were to be subject to the Shogun's consent; men of ability by implication, those who qualified as such in the Shogun's eyes were to be chosen as advisors. Samurai must be encouraged to study both the civil and military arts and to lead a simple and frugal life'. Reinforcing this were rules against drunkenness, licentiousness, wanton revelry', extravagant and inappropriate dress, and traveling with retinues that were needlessly large" (Beasley 131). .
Some may parallel the rule of Ieyasu Tokugawa's to that of Louis XIV of France in that Louis also made many reforms during his era, and also practiced absolutism to a degree. In fact Louis often preached, "I am the state," which was similar to Tokugawa's rule. Also Louis reconstructed a palace for himself at Versailles, compared to Tokugawa, who constructed a palace for himself in Edo. Just as the development of Louis' army in France, Tokugawa had the support of the Samurai, which were an elite group of warriors. This parallel of Louis and Tokugawa is very much correct despite the different totalitarian attitudes used within their reign. However some argue that just as France discriminated the Huguenots during his reign, Japan had discriminated with Western Missionaries and people of the Christian faith. In either case however, both were successful leaders and their rule had left impacts seen by their subject for many decades if not centuries.
Ieyasu not only made internal domestic policies dealing with just Japan, but made many laws on its foreign policy as well. Japan was overall a peaceful country, but many leaders feared that outsiders would come in and corrupt their order and rule. So to fix this Japan predominately practiced a policy of isolation, however exceptions were made.