Explain the political features of shogunate japan
During the Shogunate period, Japan’s government was ruled mainly by the succession of Shoguns. The title of being the ‘Shogun’ was usually passed on from father to son. The reason why the Shoguns were an important part of the government and political side of Shogunate Japan is because they were very significant during their time and they would rule their country, like the Australian government does today. They were very powerful and they took over the court officials in the early years of the Shogunate period and then eventually took over the whole government. Historians know that the Shoguns were important to Shogunate Japan because Japan would have fallen apart without them, and they were also the military commanders of their country. Another political feature of Shogunate Japan is that there was a feudal system. There was a feudal system in Shogunate Japan during the end of the period. The reason why there was a feudal system is because the Emperor started to lose power and the lower classes were gaining more power. The feudal system in Shogunate Japan was a government where the monarchy controlled land with agreements. There were two classes of the feudal system, the nobility and the peasants. The nobility class made up 12 percent of the population and the peasants made up the rest of the population. The nobility class were made up of the Emperor, royal priests, the Shoguns, the Samurai and the Daimyo. During the Shogunate period there were different political features and forms of government. The Shoguns in the early Shogunate period would control the government, and the feudal system (in later years of the Shogunate period) would provide land to the lower rated people in exchange for military service. These were some political features of Shogunate Japan.