Fall

In this period a new treaty had been agreed upon with the U.S. opening borders, eventually led to increased frustration by samurai and the beginning of revolts. With this came the start of great frustration where they were not only bored but some of their different affairs became more restricted where deep taxes and regulations had become more established. Since these new taxes came in place this meant that “significant sums spent by the large samurai population enriched the Edo economy” (Robertson). While they were deeply taxed and lost great sums of money, they also lost social position as well as their ability to gain new resources. In which (with the high cost to maintain high position with Edo rulers, this depleted already low samurai resources) (Robertson). So with this lowered respect, pay, and involvement this led to the slow decline of samurai. Eventually after several other periods passed, samurai had been put to an end in 1876. 

Throughout many periods samurai had thrived in power, social rank, and ability to maintain their job. But this all changed during the Tokugawa Shogunate where peace had been instilled and confucian teachings had been put in place. With this newfound peace being instilled this meant that samurai were no longer occupied with battles and had to find new interests. Although battles were barely a thing samurai still practiced their warfare skills but eventually Ieyasu made them balance equal amount of time in their training as well as the ability to learn politeness based on confucian teachings.