Confucianism in the Tokugawa days

In the Tokugawa age,Japanese Confucianism had an imponderable influence not only on the social life and the intelligentsia's culture but also on their thoughts.Especially in the political structure of Tokugawa Ieyasu,Japanese Confucianism took up an important thought space.It had played a great role since Japanese Confucianism was dragged into the political arena by Tokugawa Ieyasu and many Tokugawa statesmen after him.It also gave Imperial Peverence and Expelling the Barbarians ideological power to smash the Tokugawa Shogunate for the noble-minded Meiji Restoration.These are the cultural power evolved from the cultural wealth that Japanese intelligentsia gained from Confucianism teachings.Then Confucianism obtained its historical living space in the establishment of a modern country and the end of feudal society.The Meiji Administration chose Confucianism again.