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24 pages in length. The fall of Tokugawa bakufu, the foundation of more than two hundred and fifty years of peaceful existence, was caused in great part to the detrimental impact of Western Imperialism, which compelled the government to refashion its way of operating to reflect something wholly foreign. The intimidation factor was significant in the ultimate fall, inasmuch as Western influence served as an undeniable threat to their tent government – also known as Shogunate. The self-imposed isolation Japan erected became a bone of tremendous contention in the aftermath of myriad administrative changes enacted by the Tokugawa government. These reforms, which occurred in a number of eras including Kansei and Kyoho, were just as bad as the lackadaisical approach to government discipline that Bunka and Bunsei eras had adopted; by contrast, Edo and other areas experienced a flourishing of local cultures. When the mandate came through from various foreign nations for Japan to do away with its partition policy, the Tokugawa bakufu was wholly incapable of maintaining any sort of trade/negotiation authority, which ultimately negated their prestige. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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the government to refashion its way of operating to reflect something wholly foreign. The intimidation factor was significant in the ultimate fall, inasmuch as Western influence served as an
undeniable threat to their tent government - also known as Shogunate (Anonymous, 1999). The self-imposed isolation Japan erected became a bone of tremendous contention in the aftermath of myriad administrative
changes enacted by the Tokugawa government. These reforms, which occurred in a number of eras including Kansei and Kyoho, were just as bad as the lackadaisical approach to government
discipline that Bunka and Bunsei eras had adopted; by contrast, Edo and other areas experienced a flourishing of local cultures. When the mandate came through from various foreign nations
for Japan to do away with its partition policy, the Tokugawa bakufu was wholly incapable of maintaining any sort of trade/negotiation authority, which ultimately negated their prestige. An attempt
to restore its power through arranged marriage of Shogun Iemochi and imperial princess Kazunomiya was all but futile (Anonymous, 1999). II. RECOUNTING THE PAST Three prominent feudal lords -
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu - were responsible for unifying Japan toward the end of the sixteenth century; only once the Battle of Sekigahara was over was Japan
"firmly under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu" (Thach, no date), who immediately declared himself Shogun. The extent to which the coming two and a half centuries were enveloped in
peace was both grand and far-reaching; that this peaceful existence was shattered at all speaks to the nature of other civilizations seeking to forcibly rule other societies against their will.
Commodore Matthew Perry represented the beginning of the end of Tokugawa bakufu when he and his four warships landed in Edo, which eventually came to be known as Tokyo.
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