A Comparative Analysis of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval Europe: Report

This report provides a comparative analysis of the social and military features of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval Europe. It examines the warrior classes, societal structures, and military strategies of both periods. The report begins by outlining the distinct characteristics of Tokugawa Japan, including its social hierarchy and the role of the samurai, and contrasts this with the military and social dynamics of Medieval Europe, with specific attention to the role of knights and the impact of warfare. The report also highlights the differing historical contexts and evolutions, including the impact of the Meiji Restoration and the technological developments influencing military tactics. Concluding that the report indicates the dissimilarities between the two regions, and the report uses references to support the arguments.

Japanese and medieval social and
warrior system

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Similarities between social and military warrior features of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval
Europe ........................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTION
Warrior means four types social class such as merchant, farmers, artisans. The social and
military warrior features of every country is differentiated with each nations. In order to that, this
report will assess similarities between Tokugawa Japan and Medieval Europe's social and
military warrior features. It will justify that agree and disagree with this statement.
MAIN BODY
Similarities between social and military warrior features of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval
Europe
Social and military warriors feature of Tokugawa Japan:
In the Tokugawa period recognised only four social classes warriors(samurai), farmers,
artisans and traders and mobility between the four classes was officially prohibited. Military
government of Tokugawa based in new capital city at Edo(present day Tokyo) accomplished
unparalleled control over the nation lasting more than 260 years. Through exceptional social
control over population for accomplishing government's unexampled longness(Bennett, 2017).
The era of Tokugawa rule was time of peace when warriors were increasingly called upon to
fulfil bureaucratic roles.
Military warriors features of Medieval Europe:
The history period of military action of the middle ages. Technological, cultural, and
societal developments had forced dramatic transformation in the character of military action. The
history of Knight was mounted and armoured soldiers the frequently connected with nobility or
royalty from changing military tactics and role of warriors. In terms of defence, middle ages look
of castle in Europe which then spread to western Asia(Anderson and Hull, 2017). Professional
historians generally centres on military affairs that had leading effect societies that includes and
outcome of conflicts while unpaid scholar often take larger interest in the detail of conflicts,
equipment and utilize of uniform.
From above features, I am disagreed with this statement that there are no similarities
between social and military warriors of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval Europe. Because of, in
the Tokugawa, there are four social class samurai, artisans, traders and framers. On other hand,
Military action of Europe is different because the impact of its history on societies, their culture,
economies, modification local and global relationships. Military history of Europe is humanities
discipline. The Tokugawa peace was damaged only rarely and briefly prior to the violence that
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enclosed the Meiji Restoration, it also called as Meiji renovation, revolution, reform, renewal
was an event that refunded applicable imperial rule. Japan requested many military missions in
order to assist to changed its armed forces(Gill, 2016). The peace and stability of Tokugawa time
and economic development is parented set the step for speedy modernization that took place after
Meiji Restoration. The discipline of military action is changing, modification with development
as much of subject areas as societies and companies that create utilize of it. This is related to
change in military forces and pace of technological development that had taken place during time
period called as Industrial Modification.
CONCLUSION
This report has summarised that different features of military and social warriors of
Tokugawa and Medieval Europe. It can be concluded that there are no similarities between both
the military action that includes history of Tokugawa and Europe.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anderson, R.W. and Hull, B.B., 2017. Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights.
Bennett, M., 2017. The myth of the military supremacy of knightly cavalry. In Medieval Warfare
1000–1300 (pp. 171-183). Routledge.
Gill, J., 2016. Clad In Steel: The Evolution of Plate Armor in Medieval Europe and its Relation
to Contemporary Weapons Development.
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