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The feudal Japan is Japan of an aristocracy. This social class has dominated the law, the society and all the orders. The changes went through militarism and strict obedience. They enforced the political and economical changes. Those changes were unwillingly accepted by most of the society, yet, were unavoidable. The law was magistrated by the Imperial Court. The taxes were put on every goods, available. The Equal Fields distribution was strictly monitored. It embraced only one generation and the fraud was punished. The country was undergoing never-ending civil wars, the Buddhist temples were pronounced as ''sacrid places'', the places of protection and escape from persecution. The land reclamation was very expensive, almost impossible to gain, especially, when the land was lost. It was due to the hereditary tax which was extended later on and embraced other related pieces of the land.       The military service was compulsory, the sons who would never become the emp...

Heian period in Japan is dated between 794-1185 and is marked by social and political uphevals. The fifth and the sixth century were contunally disturbed by never-ending civil wars and skimrishes. The political scene has constantly changed, Chinese impact was more and more obvious. The country itself became devastated and ruined. The migration started, it was popular mostly in the middle and intellectual classes. They had money, they had connections and opportunities to change their surroundings. It made a huge influx of other citizens, mostly from China, they did not predominated the scheme of Japan, they, on the other hand brought the religion, something, Japanese people heard of yet never practiced before.  The Shinto in Japan was not just a notion it was a symbol, an onset of religion people worshipped. At that time Japan had no significant markers of religion, they worshipped nature, symbols of nature and their habitats. The beliefs were created around the magical stories, the fo...