Question

Write a description of the social structure/hierarchy of Japan with your own words, pls. As much as you can, I will mark as brainiest :)

Answer 1

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Edo society refers to the society of Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

Social classes of Edo society in Japan under Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period.

Working class district of the Edo period (Fukagawa Edo Museum).

Working-class district apartments (Fukagawa Edo Museum).

Edo society was a feudal society with strict social stratification, customs, and regulations intended to promote political stability. Japanese people were assigned into a hierarchy of social classes based on the Four Occupations that were hereditary. The Emperor of Japan and the kuge were the official ruling class of Japan but had no power. The Shōgun of the Tokugawa clan, the daimyō, and their retainers of the samurai class administered Japan through their system of domains. Majority of Edo society were commoners divided into peasant, craftsmen, and merchant classes, and various "untouchable" groups.

The Bakumatsu from 1853 led to growing opposition to the Edo system and it was dismantled after the Meiji Restoration in 1868.