Chapter !9.3By Love, Elise, Nick, Brad

Essential Questions

What caused Japan to get a new feudalism?

why does Japan have a close country policy ?

Vocabulary

Daimyo – Powerful land holding samurai

Tokugawa shogunate – Rule of a shogun. Unified Japan

Haiku – 5-7-5-syllable, 3-line verse poetry

Kabuki – A theater Seppuku – A ritual suicide of a samurai Shogun – supreme military commander

Key People

Oda Nobunaga – One of a number of brutal and ambitious Daimyo. He seized Kyoto and crushed his rivals

Toyotomi Hideyoshi – Noubounag’s best general and wanted to get rid of daimyo that were hostile, he controlled most of the country

Key People (continued)

Tokugawa Ieyasu – He tamed the daimyo and was the shogun. He also defeated his rivals at Sekigahara, he banned Christianity

Francis Xavier – Led the first Christian mission to Japan and he was a Jesuit

Content – New Feudalism under strong leaders

Japan collapsed Sengoku “warring states” period

arrived Daimyo became lords, they were

powerful samurai who seized old feudal states and offered protection for loyalty

Daimyo wanted to control the country

Content- Life in Tokugawa Japan

Emperor

Samurai Samurai

Daimyo Daimyo

Merchants

Artisans peasants

Content - Life in Tokugawa Japan

Two and a half years of prosperity Confucian values influenced society Samurai attended noh dramas People read haikus’ and fiction stories

about self made merchants and hardships

Women worked and obeyed their husbands

continued

Peasants made up 4/5 of the populations

Shifted to urban society

Contact between Europe and Japan

Portuguese brought ships, merchants and technology

Fire arms changed Japanese warriors Christian missionaries arrived Ieyasu banned Christianity and

focused on making his country Christian free

Close country policy

Japan is very isolated They cannot have foreign trade or

leave the country Japan self-sufficient

Review

Japan collapsed and gained a new feudalism. The emperor was the at the top of the system but the actual ruler was the shogun. Below them were the daimyo, the samurai warriors. After that the peasants and artisans followed. Traditional culture still boomed. Portuguese influenced new ideas in Japan and Japan was isolated.