Which of the following statements concerning Tokugawa intellectual and cultural life is most accurate?
a. Literacy in Japan reached levels higher than anywhere else outside the West.
b. Confucianism rapidly lost ground to Buddhism as the major religious and ethical basis for Japanese society.
c. The Tokugawa placed little emphasis on learning and intellectual development.
d. Japanese literature reached its zenith during the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
e. Japan continued to be largely imitative of conservative Chinese intellectual currents rather than developing dynamic ethical and philosophical systems.
Answer: A