Tokugawa

Sadly those who beleive the longevity of the Tokugawa clan's control of
Japan is due to any particular martial arts form are, with no doubt,
wrong. It was from the beginning a solid understanding and practice of
Confucian political beleifs and studies. This has been well documented
and is without argument. Rather my change of subject conversation was
how modern Japan has developed, no, rather profitted from 200 years of
Tokugawa control. I beleive the beauty that is Japan would not be so if
were not for the 200 years of isolation mandated by the Tokugawas.
Starting with Ueyesu the Tokugawas ruled unlike any other leaders. Of
course those who enjoy the battle will say life was better under
Hideyoshi or even Noubanaga. That exciting timeframe was not the topic
in the least. My thoughts were directed more to the enforcement of non
militaristic training for all Tokugawa senior warriors such as the
arts, his mircomanagement of all aspects of daily life from the only
approved design and measurement of building houses to how a bucket of
rice was to be sold and on to even what could and could not be spoken
of in public.