Japan Limits Western Contacts

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Japan Limits Western Contacts
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Strong Leaders Take Control

• A time of chaos, called the Warring States
  period, develops when powerful samurai take
  control of feudal lands, daimyo
  (warrior-chieftains) become lords of the land,
  and peasants are offered protection in return for
  their loyalty.
• The emperor has little control
• (What does this similar to that we have already
  studied?)

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• (Oda Nobunaga takes control of Kyoto by defeating
  rival daimyo)
• (Nobunaga commits seppuku and his general
  Toyotomi Hideyoshi takes over)
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi controlled most of Japan and
  then invaded Korea and Ming China
• (After Hideyoshi dies troops withdraw from Korea)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu completes unification of Japan
  and becomes shogun (actual ruler), founding the
  Tokugawa Shogunate

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Tokugawa Society and Culture

• Japan begins to shift from a rural to an urban
  society.
• Peasant farmers paid most of the taxes and had
  more difficulties than other classes
• New styles of drama (kabuki), art (woodblock
  prints), and literature (haiku) arise in the
  cities to challenge traditional culture

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Contact Between Europe and Japan

• At first the Japanese welcome Portuguese traders
  who bring European technology (firearms, cannons)
• Christianity is welcomed at first, then
  restricted, then banned
• Japan then instituted a closed country policy
  only allowing trade at the port of Nagasaki and
  only trading with Dutch and Chinese