Japan Limits Contact

Feudal Japan 1460

• Feudalism-

• Shogun-

• Japanese Emperor-

• Daimyo-

• Samurai/ Shugo-

• Ronin/ Ninja

Feudal Code

• Seppuku/ Hari Kari – Confusion Code

• Lord Takumi provoked to draw sword in palace by Lord Kotsuke then had to commit seppuku. (Tale of 14 Ronen)

“ In their hands they carried something two or three feet long, straight on the outside with a passage inside, and made of a heavy substance. …This thing with one blow can smash a mountain of silver and a wall of iron. If one sought to do mischief in another mans domain and he was touched by it, he would lose his life instantly. – Anonymous Japanese writer

Portugal Arrives 1543

• Brought New Items

• Difficulty in changing culture of sword

• Missionaries also arrive (Jesuits)

New Japan 1568• Nobunaga-

Unification of Daimyo in 1568

• Hideyoshi vs. Korea/China

Tokugawa Shogunate 1600

• Unification

• Capital Edo- Daimyo Hostages

• Stability Shogunate lasts ‘till 1867

• Tokugawa fear change and throw out Europeans

• Only Nagasaki open to Chinese and Dutch

Tokugawa Society

• Confucianism

• Shinto

• Artisans and merchants

• Women much like in China

Old pond...a frog leaps inwater's sound."

                                        Breakfast enjoyed                                          in the fine company of                                          morning glories 

                     Whore and monk, we sleep                                          under one roof together,                                          moon in a field of clover 

Culture

• Noh

• Kabuki

• Haiku 5-7-5

• Origami

• Geisha

Summary Questions

1) What was a daimyo?2) What type of government was the Tokugawa

Shogunate?3) What is Kabuki?4) His rule ended the period of the “warring state”.5) He finally unified Japan.6) What is a Haiku?7) Draw a diagram showing the Japanese Feudal

Hierarchy