Crossword-Solution: SHOGUNS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Taka-uji's example was followed by all succeeding Shoguns, and Shogun's example was followed by the feudal lords and their vassals.

Various documents translated and published by Professor Wigmore, in his "Notes on Land Tenure and Local Institutions in Old Japan," give a startling idea of the minute regulation of communal life in country-districts during the period of the Tokujawa Shoguns.

Probably before as well as after the introduction of the Chinese penal codes,--the so-called Ming and Tsing codes, by which the country was ruled under the Shoguns,--the bulk of the nation was literally under the rod.

However, the social organism did not develop to the limit of its type until the era of the Tokugawa shoguns,--so that, in order to study it as a completed structure, we must turn to modern times.

Japanese society then assumed, as to its upper ranks, nearly all the hierarchical forms which it presented down to the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, who consolidated the system without seriously changing its fundamental structure.