Click here to go to the YouTube Video In 1651, after the death of the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, a large-scale rebellion against the shogunate was discovered and shocked the Edo Shogun. The ringleader of the rebellion was Yui Shosetsu, a military scholar. At the time, Iemitsu’s strict government had led many samurais to become ronin, or samurai with no place to serve, and social unrest was spreading. Yui planned a coup d’etat with the support of the ronin. The plan was discovered by an anonymous tip and quickly suppressed. However, this incident triggered a change in the politics of the Shogunate. The Shogunate changed its previous coercive politics which…