The%20Japanese%20Empire

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The Japanese Empire
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Tokugawa Shogunate

• combined central government with feudalism
• Oda Nobunaga military leader uniting the
  daimyos
• After ten years he controlled most of the country
• Soldier then murdered him
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Nobunagas best general
• Acted as a military dictator
• Disarmed peasants
• Invaded Korea
• Goal of obtaining China
• Sent away warriors who could start rebellions

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Tokugawa Shogunate

• Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Completed work of unification
• Ensure Tokugawas maintenance of rule for 250
  years
• Tokugawa Rule
• Established headquarters at Edo (Tokyo)
• Reassigned daimyos lands
• Reorganized to assign lands
• Set up sankin-kotai to establish
  daimyo loyalty
• Had to travel to Edo every other year
• Brought tribute and served shogun
  for one year

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Tokugawa Shogunate

• Political System
• Council of Elders made of Tokugawa family and
  select daimyos
• Metsuke assisted the Council of Elders
• Toured country looking for possible uprisings
• Social Classes
• Samurai held all political power
• Farmers high because they made food
• Artisans
• Merchants bottom because they only trade
• Tokugawa Ethics
• Duty and honor were central values

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Contacts with the West

• 1543 Portuguese arrived in Japan
• Didnt like Europeans, but wanted their weapons
• Roman Catholic missionaries followed
• Jesuits were well liked, converted many
• 1587 Hideyoshi saw
  Christians as a threat
• Outlawed the religion

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Seclusion Policy

• Act of Seclusion of 1636
• Forbade Japanese to leave the country
• All Europeans except the Dutch were barred
• Dutch only wanted trade
• Changes in Japanese Society
• Agriculture brought wealth
• System of sankin-kotai helped merchants prosper
• Merchants provided services to move goods
• Increased taxes increased farming yields
• Farm became more efficient, more moved to cities
• Classes became less rigid

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Seclusion Policy

• Social life changed in cities
• Bath houses, geishas, theaters
• Arts thrived
• Haiku poetry became popular
• as cities grew, ban on foreign
  contacts was relaxed
• 1800s more Japanese were
  studying Western ideas