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From: Look Japan | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Capel, David | Copyright information

AFTER the reins of power in Japan slipped into the clutch of the Tokugawa shoguns at the turn of the seventeenth century, one of the stratagems by which they ensured that those reins did not slip anywhere else was by enforcing a rigid stratification on society, based upon old Confucian ideas. In this scheme of things, they naturally saw fit to put themselves and their kind at the top of the social pile. Below this elite samurai class came the farmers, then the artisans and finally a...

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