Shogunate Japan has many of political features and all those features revolve around a system that centralises power by controlling domains, maintain security and peace. This political system was called the bakuhan system. Examples of what the bakuhan system did is that it allowed Tokugawa family to control most of Japan and have access to the Emperor and imperial court. The Tokugawa shogunate controlled foreigners and trade. From the article ‘Tokugawa Political System’ from the website ‘Nakasendo Way’ it shows that Shogunate Japan had many political features by a trust worthy article that focus on the Edo period of Japan. Much of the information from that period is made from woodblock prints designed by artists of that time, making all the information accurate as it is from primary sources. Bakuhan refers to the coexistence of the Tokugawa government (the domain or fief of Tokugawa family) with separate independent governments in each fief (>250 domains/fiefs in Edo period). Each Domain had a leader (Daimyo) who helped to maintain the Tokugawa shogun so the Tokugawa Shogunate had some power across all of Japan. Each domain collected taxes (from agriculture), controlling the cities and trade and manufacturing. Foreigners other than the Dutch and Chinese were forbidden after 1639. Any suspicious citizens in the Edo period would be reported to the samurai or daimyo due to the spy network. The bakuhan system also made sure that no one was going against the Tokugawa Shogunate by making sure there was no contact between the domains. Each Daimyo was to live in Edo for some months every year. This was to keep control of the daimyo by the Tokugawa Shogunate. The daimyo of each domain had an interest in controlling their subjects like the Shogunate. Shogunate Japan definitely had political features as you can see all of them through the bakuhan system.