How are subsidies similar to tariffs?

Both are types of taxes. Both aim to lower the price of domestic goods. Both try to raise the price of imported goods.

They both set limits on imported goods and both aim to disadvantage imports. ... Quotas facilitate the sale of more domestic goods.

fearing kabuki could corrupt the nation’s morals, japanese government officials

explanation:

the national morals was so the japanese and the kabuki would stop fighting