HST 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.8: Proletariat, Sergey Shoygu, Elite
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The history of japanese feudalism in general, and the japanese shogunate in particular, is a story of the gradual encroachment of a feudal system upon a modern market society. While the shogunate in japan was never a single entity, it did have formalized feudal obligations, with a strict hierarchy of lords, daimyo, zenshins, and lordship. And as in europe, the shogunate itself also had a very specific ideology, distinct from its feudal ideology, and more explicitly representative of the feudal ethos. This difference of ideology also makes it very difficult to generalize from it the japanese shogunate. In its final form it has been characterized by a mixture of traditional attitudes to property, inheritance, and power, with a contemporary emphasis on the importance of the "people" and the "state" in. This system of state authority has also involved an intense struggle between the various groups of the shoigu regime, which are referred to collectively as "the power elite. "
