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What did Japanese merchants in the Edo era think of, and do about, the social structure that put them below peasants and artisans?
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I understand from sources like Wikipedia that the Tokugawa government deliberately created four social classes with the order of samurai, peasants, artisans, then merchants (and then the "outcast classes"). I also understand that merchants became more and more wealthy over the Edo period, and also were increasingly educated. Do we know what merchants thought about the Tokugawa social structure? Did they play a significant role in the Meiji Restoration?
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