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Tokugawa Ieyasu was considered the most powerful man in Japan after he defeated Hideyori loyalists and other Western rivals in the battle Sekigahara. He then ruled Japan with a very strict hand, creating many rules to keep Japan Isolated from the rest of the world.
Despite the complete isolation in Japan, great amounts of local trade occurred between merchants. Soon, Merchants became very wealthy within Japan, despite their low class.
The port of Nagasaki was also a very important part of trade. The Nagasaki port was one of the only ports in Japan that was allowed by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Japanese Isolationism was a long period of time in which the Japanese cut off all ties with Europe, stopping trade, the spread of religion, and Japan's opportunity to evolve and gain technology.
Due to Japan's extremely limited bonds between other countries, there was very little trade.
For two hundred years the Tokugawa shogun was powerful enough to keep this constant state of isolation in Japan.
Though the Tokugawa Shogunate continued to be ruled steadily, high taxing and natural disasters caused great financial problems for the citizens of Japan, which ended up with riots.
In addition to great financial problems, there was a great external pressure for Japan to participate in trade with other countries.
Feudalism was a system to show who had the most power, and who had the least . In Japan, the Emporer was a figure head while the Shogun was the group with the actual power. After the warrior class were the peasants, and then at the bottom was the Merchant class.
The Edo period was the time in which the Tokugawa Shogunate was under control of Japan.
Sakoku (meaning chained country) is the name of was the policy in which foreigners could not enter Japan, and Japanese citizens could not leave Japan.