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Tokugawa Japan

Monday October 7, 2013

Today’s ObjectiveStudents will be able to describe the interaction between Japan and the West by…•Completing guided notes,•Analyzing an historical document, •Examining their weekend homework assignment

Japanese Society

Daimyo, the heads of noble families, were not unified and warred with one another, until…

The Three Great Unifiers

Oda Nobuna

ga

Tokugawa

Ieyasu

Toyotomi

Hideyoshi

Controlled the daimyo and restored

central rule. Established the city

of Edo (Tokyo) as the capital and ruled as

SHOGUN

• Shoguns maintain peace by holding the families of each daimyo in the capital city of Edo• Daimyo are less

likely to battle one another because their families would be held accountable

• Samurai become less of a warrior class and shift to local administration

The Hostage System Onward

to glorious paperwo

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Europeans in JapanPortuguese Europeans to arrive in Japan (1543)• Trade goods like eyeglasses, tobacco…

and GUNS!• They also bring Christianity

Firearms had benefits over traditional means of warfare…

Europeans in Japan

With a little training, nearly any peasant could fire a gun

Thanks for the new toys, Portugal!

I’m really expensive

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Europeans in JapanFrancis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary arrives in 1549• Thousands of

Japanese are converting to Christianity, but…

• Christianity is banned after Jesuits destroy local shrines

• Christians are expelled from Japan

• European merchants are also soon expelled

No, I’m Charles Francis Xavier… you’re

thinking of a different

guy…

Euro

pean

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Ja

pan

• The Onin War causes Japan to break up into semi-independent feudal states

1467

• The Portuguese become the first European traders to reach Japan

1542

• Japan is reunified under the rule of a single Shogun

1590

• Systematic persecutions drive Christians out of Japan

1612 to 1638

• Japanese are forbidden from traveling abroad and foreign access is restricted

1639

Europeans out of Japan

Selected Document Excerpts:1. Japanese ships are strictly forbidden to leave for foreign

countries.2. No Japanese is permitted to go abroad. If there is anyone who

attempts to do so secretly, he must be executed. The ship so involved must be impounded and its owner arrested, and the matter must be reported to the higher authority.

3. If any Japanese returns from overseas after residing there, he must be put to death.

4. If there is any place where the teachings of padres (Christianity) is practiced, the two of you must order a thorough investigation….

7. If there are any Southern Barbarians (Westerners) who propagate the teachings of padres, or otherwise commit crimes, they may be incarcerated in the prison maintained by the Omura domain, as was done previously….

10. Samurai are not permitted to purchase any goods originating from foreign ships directly from Chinese merchants in Nagasaki….

You have 6 minutes to complete the assignment… 6 minutes

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