The Tokugawa family ruled Japan for 264 years. What was the end of the family after it was overthrown?

Tokugawa shogunate? Boss? Should be called. Three outstanding Japanese Warring States? One of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Since Tokugawa Ieyasu took over Edo and destroyed Toyotomi's hegemony, Tokugawa tokugawa era has occupied Japan for more than 260 years. One thing that later shook the Tokugawa family to rule Japan was in 1863? Black ship? Events.

At that time, when the Americans opened the Japanese gate with guns, the Tokugawa shogunate was the first 12 generation general Tokugawa IeYoshi in power. The arrival of American warships was undoubtedly a blow to Tokugawa IeYoshi, and it was impossible for him to resist the American invasion with his strength.

This incident also made Tokugawa IeYoshi aware of the gap between Japan and the world, and he was worried that Japan would soon be controlled by the United States. So shortly after the Black Boat incident, Tokugawa IeYoshi got a serious illness because of a heart attack and other reasons, and then passed away in a hurry.

At that time, only one son of Tokugawa IeYoshi suffered from polio, and after several years as a general, he left. Finally, the chaos of the shogunate spread to an unfortunate Tokugawa family named Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

At that time, after the Black Boat Incident, Japanese domestic reformers began to demand that Japan should follow the example of the West to carry out reforms, one of which was to demand the Tokugawa shogunate to hand over power, so a massive reform was launched in Japan. Inverted curtain movement? .

Tokugawa Yoshinobu first suppressed the reformists, but when he entered the stalemate stage, Tokugawa Yoshinobu refused his death request and chose to give up power.

As for the reason, it is because Tokugawa Yoshinobu knows that Japan's reformists are very strong. If it is forcibly suppressed, Japan will easily enter the Warring States state again; In addition, at that time, European countries were also eyeing up the Japanese, so what was Tokugawa Yoshinobu doing? Take care of the overall situation? , take the initiative to hand over the power to the emperor; Of course, there is also a very realistic reason, that is, to take care of Edo people. After all, if there is a war, there will be rivers of blood in Edo.

However, after the Tokugawa family handed over power, they were not persecuted, which was directly related to Tokugawa Yoshinobu's final attitude.

After the transfer of power, Tokugawa Yoshinobu became very stable. After he left office as a general, in order not to make people afraid that he would make a comeback, he even refused to meet his former shogunate colleagues again, completely indulging in his own world, and basically doing nothing except taking pictures and listening to music every day.

He feels like an abdicated emperor, and he still has state funds for him to eat and drink every day. Of course, his position is obviously not as high as that of the emperor, but it is still not low. The Japanese government gave them the status of duke, which should be second only to the status of emperor.

Seeing this, many of us may think of Puyi. When the Qing emperor Puyi abdicated, the Beiyang government also promised to give Puyi certain preferential conditions, but the premise of the preferential conditions was that Puyi could retain the title of emperor, but he could never interfere in anything related to politics, let alone restore it.

But Puyi later launched the restoration, and the coup almost succeeded. It is for this reason that Feng Yuxiang later found a reason to drive Puyi out of the palace.

Tokugawa IeYoshi's state is not like Puyi's, but more like Emperor Xian of the Three Kingdoms period. After the change of power, he has been in his fief, free from any political influence.

Although the Tokugawa family lost a lot of political power, they also lost their former dignity. But it is deeply rooted and profound, so it is still one of the best nobles in Japan.

During the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the national economy also developed rapidly, and the Tokugawa family also saw such an opportunity, and quickly invested various resources in commercial trade and achieved success. Even now, the Tokugawa family is still one of the big chaebol in Japan.

So in general, after the Tokugawa shogunate handed over the political power to Emperor Meiji, the family still got along very well and still had great influence in Japan.

First of all, the Tokugawa family voluntarily surrendered political power, which reduced the resistance of the revolution and increased everyone's goodwill towards it; Moreover, after all, the Tokugawa family has ruled Japan for more than 260 years, and its family has more or less completed the accumulation of original capital, so even if it can't continue to get involved in politics, the economic profits that the Tokugawa family can get by its influence in Japan are very considerable.