What would your average home decor look like in Tokugawa Japan?

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How about a little earlier in ashikaga japan?

xaliber

It depends on which class you are. If you are a chonin (the merchant class), your home decoration might look something like this. At the time it's considered luxurious.

Chonin is the rising class in Tokugawa Japan, in a similar way to the rise of middle class in modern times. They were put in the lowest in the Japanese class system (shi-no-ko-sho, samurai-farmers-artisans-merchants) because they were seen as not being "useful" in terms of not producing anything new, only trading goods and circulating money. However, they have the most cash readily available and were able to pay for the most consumer goods.

Their home decoration and clothing got as luxurious as samurais were - some samurais even look pretty poor compared to then - until in the midst of Tokugawa period, the shogunate forbid them to display their wealth in public.

Matsunosuke Nishiyama's Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600-1868 explains this in a lot of details.

As for Ashikaga period, it was a completely different time and I think I can't help you on that...