Transcript 12: Japan Tokugawa Period

Tokugawa Period
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Japan
Origins of Tokugawa
 Oda
Nobunaga
 Hideyoshi Toyotomi
 Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa and its control system
 Tokugawa
Period (also called Tokugawa
Shogunate): 1568 – 1868 AD
 Tokugawa System:
 Daimyo and their Han (Domain)
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Shimpan: Family
Fudai: Household
Tozama: Outsiders
Tokugawa and it’s control system
 Daimyo
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and their Han (Domain)
Shimpan
Fudai
Tozama
Tokugawa and it’s control system
 Alternate
residence
 Hostage system
 Conscription public works
 Domain rearrangement.
Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms
Caste system:
 Samurai
 Artisans
 Farmers
 Merchants
 Burakumin
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aka: Eta
Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms
 Fixed
Residences and Fixed occupations
 International Restrictions:
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Christianity in Japan?
 Tokugawa
Success: 200 years of general
peace
 Samurai culture and bushido dominant
 Kenno Code: Bushido as legal code +
proscription on corruption or non-sanctioned
violence
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa
Control Mechanisms
 Urban
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society
Art
Literature
Entertainment
Chushingura – 47 Ronin
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa
Control Mechanisms
 National
Transportation network
 Unified Language
 Unified Culture
 Money Economy
 Farmer’s wealth
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa
Control Mechanisms
 Daimyo
impoverished
 Wealthy Merchants
 Daimyo and Samurai Relationship
changes
 Samurai as Bureaucrats
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Warriors without war
 Decay
and corruption at
the center
Tokugawa Meets the West
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Dutch Learning
 China’s unequal treaties 1840s: Japan made
uneasy
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Commodore Perry:
1853
Tokugawa Meets the West
 Shogun’s
response
 Kanagawa Treaty: 1854
 Harris Treaty: 1858
 Open ports
 Extraterritoriality
 Tariffs
Tokugawa Meets the West
 Young
Samurai Reaction
 Choshu incident: 1863
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Domestic Response
Foreign Response
Tokugawa Meets the West
 Choshu’s
new resolution
 Satsuma and Choshu: Who, and why
them?