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    Source Context and Reference

    Tokugawa Ieyasu on Military Government and the Context Statement


    Social Order Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-
    Once, Lord Tōshō [Ieyasu] conversed with Honda, 1616) was the third of the
    Governor Sado, on the subject of the emperor, the three great unifiers of Japan
    and the founder of the
    shogun, and the farmer. “… the true master of the way
    Practice Tokugawa
    of the warrior is one who maintains his martial shogunate that ruled Japan
    source 1 discipline even in time of peace. … the farmer’s toil is from 1603 to 1868. . In this
    proverbial ... He selects the seed from last fall’s crop short document,
    and undergoes various hardships and anxieties written by an unidentified
    through the heat of the summer until the seed grows person in the early
    finally to a rice plant. ... The rice then becomes the seventeenth century,
    sustenance for the multitudes. ... the artisan’s Ieyasu’s conception of the
    occupation is to make and prepare wares and utensils Tokugawa social
    for the use of others. ... the merchant facilitates the hierarchy is recorded
    exchange of goods so that the people can cover their Reference
    From Sources of Japanese
    nakedness and keep their bodies warm. …
    Tradition, edited by Ryusaku
    Tsunoda and Wm. [From
    Korō shodan, in Dai-Nihon
    shiryō, Part 12, Vol. 24, pp.
    546-549]

    A great peace is at hand. The shôgun rules firmly and with Context Statement
    justice at Edo. No more shall we have to live by the sword. The Tokugawa period was a
    I have seen that great profit can be made honourably. I shall time of dynamic commercial
    brew sake and soy sauce and we shall prosper." growth. At the center of this
    Practice was the merchant class.
    source 2 Although socially the merchants
    — Mitsui Takatoshi (1622-1694), founder of the Mitsui had less prestige then other
    empire classes, they held great
    economic power. A number of
    the great Japanese multi-
    national corporations of today
    came from simple beginnings in
    the Tokugawa period.

    Reference
    Mitsui Takatoshi (1622-1694),
    founder of the Mitsui empire,
    Translation provided by Carol
    Gluck, George Sansom
    Professor of Japanese History,
    Columbia University. Asia for
    Educators, Columbia University
    | http://afe.easia.columbia.edu

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