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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Tokugawa Shoguns?Consolidation of Duarchy. THE rule of Hid6yoshi was followed by that of a new line of Shoguns. The circumstances under which it was established are well known. At the death of Hideyoshi in 1598 the government of the country was, during the minority of his son Hideyori, entrusted to five feudal nobles who acted as regents. Of these, the most prominent was Tokugawa lyeyasu, who had married Hideyoshi's daughter, and whose feudal territories consisted of the eight provinces in the east of the main island known as the KwantS. Disputes soon arose between the regents, and an appeal to arms resulted in the decisive victory of Iy6yasu at Seki-ga-hara, near Lake Biwa. This was in October, 1600. In 1603 he was appointed Shogun, and twelve years later the death, in what is known as the Osaka summer campaign, of Hideyori, the only personage who could challenge his supremacy, left him without any dangerous rival. Now for the first time in Japanese history the authority of the Shogunate extended throughout the whole of Japan. The prestige of the previous ruler had been as great, and his reputation in the field higher, but he was not, like his successor, of Minamoto stock, nor could he trace his descent from an Emperor; there were remote districts in the country where his influence had not penetrated, out-of-the-way places where his writ had never run. In founding a fresh line of Shoguns the new ruler had other circumstances in his favour. The country was tired of civil war and exhausted; the fighting power and resources of turbulent chiefs had been weakened by long-continued hostilities; and much of the work of pacification had been already done. Although the Tokugawa Shogunate was, in its main outlines, the repetition of a government which had existed...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458902962
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 145890296X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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