How Oda Nobunaga shattered the medieval order

Before the Tokugawa peace could begin, someone had to disarm the country. This episode examines the three edicts that restructured Japanese society from the ground up — Hideyoshi’s Sword Hunt, which stripped commoners of their weapons and made the samurai the only armed class; the separation of warriors from farmers, which froze the social order in place; and the great cadastral surveys that measured every field in Japan and tied each peasant to the soil. The Tokugawa era didn’t create the peace. Hideyoshi engineered it.