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1)1600-1868 tokugawa shogunate rules
2)he makes the emperor and the emperor's heir a virtual prisoner in their own palace
3) had a personal samurai of 5,000 bannermen(senior retainers) and 17,000 lesser retainers (hereditary) <-(all were paid straight from ieyasu) |
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| tent government that manages ieyasu's personal estate and watches over the country on behalf of the government |
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| religious symbol that you need to step on to prove with is more important obediance or religion: 1660 over 30 thousand christians are executed(martyred); apostasy- to renounce religion to save your own life |
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| seen as a bad influence due to the 1637-1638 christian peasent revolt led by ronin because of taxation, revolt fails and christianity is blamed |
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| removing the outside influences |
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1)1616 all but 2 ports are closed to foreigners
2) english leave as it becomes expensive and unprofitable in 1623
3)1635 all japanese cannot leave or return to japan
4)portuguese are expelled and any who return are executed
5) dutch are left in japan only to trade, but then they are allowed to live only on a small island off the coast |
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| as the tokugawa collapses a modern government is created and all the samurai become classy and more educated; war strategy and skill become more of an art rather than for purpose |
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| 1702: a minor daimyo is humiliated by a minor shogunal official and he pulls out his sword and must commit suicide, the damiyo's ronin avenged their master and murder the shogunal official, they were seen and heroes, but the government makes them commit seppuku and takes the samurai down a notch |
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| rectangular (differs from china) made of gold, copper, and silver minted from the government, paper money is minted by the daimyo's but only is useful in the daimyo's domain. |
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| merchants become prosperous, some are given special status for supplying items to the shogun: mitsui, konoike, and sumitomo are the most prosperous of the merchant families. |
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| geisha mother is basically an expensive ass pimp, geisha are seen as the doorway to the pass, the kyoto cherry blossom estival shows a glmpse of the past life, geisha have a code of secrecy as to not say what they talk about in jobs, geishas are not allowed to marry, geisha must buy their freedom, most prized possession is the kimono, |
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| arrives at japan to create trade, okichi is a geisha sent to be a spy to harris even tho they are not allowed to share information obtained during their job(see geisha) and okichi falls in love with him |
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| called a daimyo meeting for their opinion on how to deal with the foreigners and in the end the daimyos realized they are in a position of real power and give their opinion on everything |
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| 1825 publishes a book "new proposals" where it states that all foreigners should be removed from japan (mito province) |
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| was an expert on guns and made the slogan "western science, eastern ethics" |
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| U.S. sends commadoore perry of the u s navy with 8 ships and delivers a letter demanding for trade to open, and the japanese government pretty much has no choice because the u.s. navy could block the japanese trade and starve millions, perry leaves and returns in 1854 and negotiates the treaty of kanagawa is signed which opened american trade to 2 ports: shimoda and hakodate |
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| daimyo of hikome replaces hotta as the chief elder and signs the treaty ignoring the emperor's summons as well as the deny the shogunal heir the title of shogun |
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| 2 provinces become the leading edge in reform polotics, had many samurais, satsuma begin to acquire the ronin; chosu controllers force the shogunate to chose a date for the shogunate to expell the barbarians in 1863 which is impossible as the westerners have allready integrated themselves, choshu radicals fire upon foreign ships and the foreigners retaliate by destroying the choshu control, and during the choshu weakness setsuma takes over the shogunate, choshu rearm themselves, a setsuma samurai kills a british man in 1862 and setsuma and must pay 100,000 pounds, later on setsuma fires on the british destroying a city, setsuma only pay 25,000 pounds and make a deal to buy a british navy, shogun attacks the choshu radicals and take over the choshu, together the shogun and the readicals take over the choshu capitol, shotgunal navy loses to choshu navy and the satsuma team up with the choshu to take down the shogun |
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| heavenly chastizing course |
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| 2000 peasant rebellion to kill the shogunal authorities |
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| builds a french shipyard and tries to get closer to the shogun and advises him to take down the choshu/setsuma |
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| with the french having supported the shogun, the english send parkes to support the choshu/setsuma |
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creates a coup on keiki and keiki retires, iwakura and emperor musohito creat the 5 article oath released in 1868:
1) deliberateive assembly (form of democracy)
2) can do anything in order for to help japan
3)no more classe system
4)old gov. is removed
5)learn from other cultures |
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| becomes shigenou's assistent and establishes japan's modern currency, the yen |
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| declares war on posan, korea; and when iwakura comes back the attack is called off so saigo leaves and disgruntled samurai join his cause and create an armed rebellion |
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