Tokugawa period was formed by Tokugawa leyasu. After Hideyoshi, he completed the unification. He moved the capital of Japan to Edo which is his power base. For keeping those daimyo not rebelling. leyasu ask them to go to the capital every other year in the capital. Even they go back to their place, they still need to leave their family in the capital as hostage
Because Confucius values. The main economic source was the taxes from farmers. Most of the farmers were not be allowed to participate works which's not about farm. And on the other hand, science 1600, when they start to have communicate with European, they start to do business with them, Europeans brought many new technology and ideas To Japan.
Science 1594, Christian missionaries start to come to Japan. Because Japanese thought them as a part of the business with Europeans, so they accepted them. They start to accept Christian. And they succeed. Athirst, Ieyasu was afraid if he let them leave Japan my influence the business with European. But finally, Ieyasu start to worried about this. He start to say no to Christian. However, during 1637, a group of people was angry of this. This scared Ieyasu. He closed the country and stopped to have communication with European.
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