Question

What was religion like during the Tokugawa shogunate?

Answer 1

As Tokugawa Japan's first shogun, Ieyasu was drawn to neo-Confucianism. It eventually became the established orthodox social/political doctrine of Tokugawa Japan. The neo-Confucianismembraced by Ieyasu and subsequent Tokugawa shoguns was best articulated by the twelfth century Chinese scholar, Zhu Xi (1130-1200).