The document summarizes the Tokugawa period in Japan, which established a feudal system and internal peace. It achieved political stability through Tokugawa Ieyasu's unification and repression of foreigners. The system enforced rigid social classes and suppressed change and mobility. However, it also saw economic growth in trade and culture that eventually posed problems for the feudal system and led to its decline due to foreign threats, financial issues, and dissenting daimyo families. This paved the way for the Meiji Restoration.

1. TOKUGAWA
JAPAN

2. FEUDAL
SYSTEM
MOBILE
SYSTEM
TOKUGAWA ERA

3. FEUDAL
SYSTEM

4. THREE MAIN COMPONENTS
Internal
Peace
Political
Stability
Economic
Growth

5. Internal Peace
● enforced rigid rules and repressed change
● no social mobility
● peasants
● merchants
● samurai
● foreigners (political stability)

6. Internal Peace (Peasants)
● only agriculture
● crops: source of income for people in
authority (daimyos and samurai)
● suffered every famine
● confiscated weapons

7. Internal Peace (Merchants)
● once had their own power and
government
● was absorbed into Tokugawa regime
● looked down upon by aristocrats
● forced to act as peasants

8. Internal Peace (Samurai)
● some became bureaucrats
● some became the new police and
security force

9. POLITICAL
STABILITY

10. Political Stability (Tokugawa Unification)
● Tokugawa Ieyasu achieved control
over the entire country

11. Political Stability (Foreign repression)
● welcomed at first
● Christianity and Colonial expansion
● Military intervention: expelled /
executed
● allowed ships from China and Korea to
trade at Nagasaki
● 1 or 2 Dutch ships per year

12. ECONOMIC
GROWTH

13. Economic Growth
● development began
○ trade and market
○ art and culture
● posed a problem for Japanese
feudalism

14. MORE
MOBILE
SYSTEM

15. Strain in Tokugawa System
Financial Problems ● agricultural productions waning

16. Strain in Tokugawa System
Foreign threat ● realized their defenselessness
● reluctantly opened their trade

17. Strain in Tokugawa System
Enemy Daimyo
Families
● new emperor Meiji which started the
Meiji restoration

18. CONCLUSION