Ch.6 begins by discussing the development of a mass culture in Japan, while Ch. 10 finishes with the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
As I discussed in the previous post, it is important to recognize the progress which was made in the Tokugawa era, and the real nature of mass. Merchants and farmers, while rarely talked in the histories compared to warriors and kings, had their own changes and desires during the Tokugawa era and in its final days. They were interested in the world as it was, and then the world as it was changing when the black ships came.
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