observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly evident once one starts analyzing it. As a lot of queries that initially rise in one’s mind get answered when reading the accounts, there are even more queries that in turn get borne out of these answers. The idea of a particular kind of image being projected of
hundred years. (The Columbia Encyclopedia) The main reason why the Act Of Seclusion was released was to stop the spread of colonialism and foreign influence in Japan. Since the main religion in Japan was Confucianism; which greatly emphasized being conservative and loyal, Tokugawa Shougns believed that any organization or party that had different ideas and traditions would be opposing the government’s views and would possibly tamper with the ideologies of Japan.(History.com, Tokugawa Shuganate)