Feudal Hierarchy
This person held the real power even though they were not at the top of the feudal hierarchy in Edo Japan.
Who was the Shogun?
The Tokugawa Shogunate enacted the sakoku policy primarily to limit foreign influence and isolate Japan from outside contact.
What was the purpose of national isolation?
Ryosai kenbo is translated to this.
What is good wife, wise mother?
This popular form of Japanese theater that combines dance, music, and drama originated during the Edo period and was especially associated with female performers in its early form.
What is Kabuki?
Commodore Matthew Perry arrive in his black ships in this year.
What is 1853?
This social class was considered the warrior class in Edo Japan.
Who were the samurai?
During the sakoku period, this European country was allowed limited trade with Japan through Nagasaki.
What is the Netherlands?
This 1904–1905 conflict saw Japan defeat a major European power for the first time, over rival interests in Manchuria and Korea.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This Edo-period art form involves carving images into wooden blocks, inking them, and pressing them onto paper to create prints.
What is ukiyo-e / woodblock printing?
Japan annexed this Asian country in 1910.
What is Korea?
These landholding lords controlled vast estates in Edo Japan.
Who were the Daimyo?
The sakoku policy helped this aspect of Japan grow internally by encouraging domestic trade and local production while limiting foreign influence.
What is Japan’s economy?
A code of conduct that emphasized loyalty, honor, and martial skills for the samurai.
What was the Bushido code?
This traditional Japanese poetic form, often associated with Edo-period culture, consists of three lines with a 5–7–5 syllable structure and focuses on nature and seasonal imagery.
What is a haiku?
This year marks when Tokugawa Ieyasu was officially appointed shogun, beginning the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What is 1603?
In Edo Japan’s social structure, this group’s role was to farm the land and produce food.
Who were the peasants?
Japan’s period of isolation led to the development of a distinct culture with limited outside influence and strong internal artistic traditions.
What is a more unique and self-contained Japanese culture?
This military government ruled Japan in place of the emperor, controlling policy, enforcing law, and overseeing the daimyō system during the Edo period.
What is the shogunate?
This year marks when women were officially banned from performing in Kabuki theater, leading to all-male casts.
What is 1629?
This policy required daimyō to spend every other year in the capital under the shogun’s watch, limiting their power and helping prevent rebellion.
What is the sankin-kōtai (alternate attendance) system?
Though often wealthy, this social class sat at the bottom of Edo Japan’s feudal hierarchy because they made money from others’ labor rather than producing goods themselves.
Who were the merchants?
This decade marks the official start of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s sakoku (closed country) policy.
What are the 1630's?
By the end of the Edo period, this warrior class had largely shifted from battlefield fighters to bureaucrats and administrators serving the shogunate and daimyō.
What is the samurai class that transitioned from military warriors to government officials?
This Western-influenced art form, introduced more widely in late Edo Japan, uses pigments mixed with oil to create realistic, layered paintings on canvas.
What is yōga (oil painting)?
This policy drastically restricted Japan’s foreign relations, allowing very limited trade and contact with only a few foreign partners under strict regulation.
What is the sakoku policy?