Secondary source: The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd revised edition
Web link: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xIsmHbijQesC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=husband+and+wife+in+shogunate+japan&source=bl&ots=X-xFVOsm7h&sig=BdVNQHMoaTv1lzAHLwT_Y5nl-_k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBWoVChMI0b317MuGxgIVUBG8Ch1xFABV#v=onepage&q&f=false
Web link: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xIsmHbijQesC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=husband+and+wife+in+shogunate+japan&source=bl&ots=X-xFVOsm7h&sig=BdVNQHMoaTv1lzAHLwT_Y5nl-_k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBWoVChMI0b317MuGxgIVUBG8Ch1xFABV#v=onepage&q&f=false
The source above is an extract from the book ‘The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd revised edition,’ written by Carl F. Goodman who is the Professor of Japan and United States Comparative Law at Georgetown University Law Center and also at George Washington University School of Law. This book is intended for people who study law but it is also extremely useful for historians that are studying the relationship between husbands and wives in the Tokugawa period. This source was published in 2008 by the publisher Kluwer Law International. Goodman wrote this book to show people studying law what rules were in place in Japan. The extract above is a secondary source, as it was not written in the actual time of the Tokugawa period. The extract says how in most situations in the Tokugawa period, the wife would have to move into her husbands home and also how that the marriages could’ve been arranged marriages. It also says that a wife may have not met her husband until the arranged marriage had been set upon. By the upper class in the Tokugawa period marriage was classified as a more political matter than a personal one. This lead to the second Tokugawa Shogun (Tokugawa Hidetada) to make the decision that for the Daimyo (feudal rulers) houses private considerations couldn’t be the basis for any marriage. Also the source states that the fifth Tokugawa Shogun made a rule that high-ranking lords were not allowed to marry without getting approval from a Magistrate who were samurai officials of the Tokugawa government. The extract from ‘The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis’ was too show the relationship and marriage of husbands and wives worked in the Tokugawa period to people who study and work in law. The repetition of the word marriage will make historians instantly look at that paragraph in the book if that is mainly what they’re looking for. It is also clearly stating what the paragraph is about. In this extract Goodman says ‘…the marriage was simply concluded when the wife moved into her husband’s family.’ This is suggesting that the men had more control over the women as they could not have the husband come and move into their family. In this extract from the book ‘The Rule of Law in Japan: A Comparative Analysis,’ Carl F. Goodman has shown the relationship between a husband and accurately making it incredibly useful to historians.