Ikki Kaijima’s Reviews > The Making of Modern Japan > Status Update

Pick up from Chapter 3: Growth of Tokugawa Society

gradual consolidation of power in Japan under Tokugawa bakufu, daimyo lords pledging allegiance to central power in Edo, institutionalizing control measures(converting samurai into law enforcing bureaucrats in castle towns, rearrangement of domains in a strategic manner where resources shifted between daimyos, alternate attendance system mandating stay in Edo,etc)