Talk:Buke shohatto
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[edit] ships
I'd like to find out the reason this "Ships which can carry over 500 koku are forbidden to be constructed" was decreed.--Mrg3105 09:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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- This was part of the kaikin (海禁, maritime restrictions) also known as the "sakoku policy". Basically, it was a combination of two things - (a) the shogunate trying to gain more control over commerce, and (b) the shogunate banning overseas travel - and thus the construction of ships large enough to be capable of such journeys - in order to restrict foreign influences, particularly Catholicism which was seen as a threat to peace and order. LordAmeth 22:12, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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