Charles Dunn's book Everyday Life in Traditional Japan is extremely detailed in every aspect of Tokugawa Japan. It portrays Japanese society as divided by social classes, but also I think it was this particular division that made Japan the cohesive nation that it was. Dunn also portrays how each class was divided within itself and how it was also a well oiled machine.
The importance's of each class in Japan at the time was different as we would see it in the western approach to it. The farmers were probably the single most important social class, which also comprised of the most populat…
