【幕末】189 忙しい人のための幕末【日本史】

Hello everyone. This time I will talk about the end of Edo period. The period of "the end of the Tokugawa shogunate" is called "the end of Edo period" for short. the end of Edo period period is between the Edo period and the Meiji era. During this period, Japan underwent a major transformation. At first.

How has Japan changed? I will start with that story. If I could express the period called the end of the end of Edo period in one word. The shogun centered politics changed to the Emperor of Japan -centered politics. I can say it like that. I will talk about it in a little more detail.

in old Japan. There was a group called The Imperial Court centered on the Emperor of Japan . And they were doing politics. But then. That situation has changed. A group called the Shogunate centered on the shogun was established. In other words. The Imperial Court centered around the Emperor of Japan . They entrusted politics to the Shogunate .

The Shogunate seized power in politics. There was such a background. in the Edo period . The Tokugawa clan, the shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate , conducted politics. Politics in the Edo period was a pyramid structure. At the top of the Shogunate was the shogun. Below that was ROJU, who was in charge of politics.

Below that, there were domain in charge of the regions. It was a structure like this. The Tokugawa shogunate was operated with such a structure. from among those domain. domain emerged that would carry out their own reforms and gain particular strength. Such powerful domain are called major domains. One day, the major domains began to think as follows.

"Now the Shogunate is in charge of politics." "Because the Shogunate is entrusted with politics by The Imperial Court." "In other words, above the Shogunate is The Imperial Court." They started thinking that way. In other words. They positioned The Imperial Court at the top of the pyramid structure. The end of the end of Edo period period.