This is a document analysis I did in 2010 regarding the Tokugawa Edict of 1635. It is a little long but it tells the history of the edict and how it changed the future of Japan at the start of Tokugawa rule. The “Closed country edict of 1635” was the Tokugawa bakufu (government) legislations enforced… Read More Edict of 1635 and its inception