Tsunayoshi

Although both parties should have been punished for fighting in the warrior society of the times, then Shogun Tsunayoshi Tokugawa found Kozukenosuke Kira innocent but ordered Takuminokami Asano to commit seppuku on that same day.

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After the death of his only son, Tsunayoshi consulted a Buddhist priest named Ryuko, who told him, When a person does not have an heir, it is always due to the fact that they have done much killing in their previous lives.

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Then he had all those who had been instructed by Tsunayoshi to uphold these laws stand before the coffin as well, forcing them to agree to this repeal.

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Instead of swearing and cursing Tsunayoshi, you should be thanking the gods.

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THE STORIES ABOUT the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the early years of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals show that efforts to improve the welfare of dogs and other animals often have unforeseen consequences.

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Unfortunately, although the laws were designed for the moral purpose of ending the practice of harming, killing, or abandoning dogs, the results were not what Tsunayoshi had intended.

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Tsunayoshi would be the most controversial of all of the Tokugawa rulers, and his so-called Laws of Compassion would be called by some Japanese historians “the worst laws in the feudal history of mankind.”

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Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, born in Edo the old name for Tokyo, Japan, was the fifth of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns, whose rule began in 1600 and would last for 268 years.

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Finally, Tsunayoshi demanded that dogs should be treated according to “the fundamental principles of humanity.”

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In another unprecedented action, Tsunayoshi improved the conditions of prison inmates by mandating better housing, several baths per month, and warm clothing during the winter months.

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