Japan's Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

by Noah McCormack

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants. Subsequently, during the two and a half centuries of Tokugawa...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415501326
• ISBN13: 9780415501323
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"