sho-hatto

Updated: May 29, 2025

But this plot, also, was discovered before it matured, and it proved to be the last attempt that was made to overthrow the Bakufu by force until more than two hundred years had passed. On the 5th of August, 1635, a body of laws was issued by Iemitsu under the title of Buke Sho-hatto, and these laws were again promulgated on June 28, 1665, by the fourth shogun, Ietsuna, with a few alterations.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era