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The period from 1603 to 1867 was called Edo Period or Tokugawa Period. This started when there 250 warring daimyos. There was one called Oda Nobunaga which tried to unify the lands, it got the Central daimyos unified but their ruler died. So a former general Hideyoshi took over and moved the capital to a fishing village called Edo. The general then died, but before he set up a ruling faction until his son was old enough to take the throne. When his song took the throne, his power was challenged by others but he beat them at the Battle of Sekigahara. He then took the title Shogun, military dictator. He then took up Edo as his headquarters for his Shogunate. By 1612 all remaining daimyos were to swear loyalty to Ieyasu, the general's son. After that, they set up laws about taxing, building, etc. Then in 1615 they even put up that no fortifications could be built and marriages must be allowed. To further this, he created three classes; Shimpan, related to the Tokugawa; Fudai, loyal to the Tokugawa; finally Tozama, independent since before 1600. In 1623 the term samurai was formed when Edo became a military force in Japan. From 1600 to 1720 the population had grown from 12 million to 31 million people, in the time called the Edo Golden Age. From then all, peasants and some samurai practiced birth control to limit the population. There then came a famine in 1783-4 which was then fallowed by the eruption of Mount Asama in central Japan. This ruined crops and rivers in the area. In the 18th century peasants began to revolt, not a revolution but to lower taxes. By the 19th century western power was growing and the isolation was becoming threatened. In 1806 a Russian force destroyed a settlement and this to the Japanese was an Oman for what was to come. In 1833 more crop failures came to affect Japan. In 1837, increasing British, French and other foreigners came into Japanese ports. Foreign affairs reached a crisis point in 1853, when American naval officer Matthew...
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