Important people
The first emperor to really hold power.
Who was Emperor Meiji
A Japanese word meaning "enlightened rule"
What is Meiji?
A rule allowing anyone to fire at foreign ships coming into japan during the Edo period.
What is the No-Second thoughts order?
The people who produced food during the Shogun's rule.
Who are the Peasants?
The Japanese were thrilled when Christian missionaries arrived.
What is False
The person who after defeating enemy daimyo became the shogun.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu
A strong and destructive wave caused by an earthquake in the ocean.
What is tsunami?
An agreement made between Britan and Japan that installed rules on trade and travel that protected British sailors.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
The people that bought from artisans and peasants to sell at their stands.
Who are the Merchants?
The Japanese originally captured any shipwrecked sailors.
What is True?
The first ever English teacher in Japan.
Who was Ranald MacDonald?
A musical dance or drama.
What is noh?
Places ran by Outcasts where different cultural activities took place like noh and kabuki.
What are the floating worlds?
The respected and honoured warriors of Japan.
Who are the Samurai?
The Japanese industrialized 10x slower than the U.S.
What is False?
The person who opened the trading ports of Japan in the 1800s.
Who was Commodore Perry?
Festivals held spring and fall to please the kami of each Japanese clan or village.
What is matsuri?
A war between Britain and China over trade.
What was the Opium wars?
The people shunned from society because of their work.
Who are the Outcasts?
Japan is know as "the land of the Rising Sun"
The last samurai.
Who is Saigo Takamori?
Faithfullness or devotion to ones parents.
What is fieial piety?
Laws put in place to isolate japan from trade, and control the Japanese.
What are the Exclusion Laws?
People who maintained the house and worked the fields.
Who are the Women?
The 47 Ronin committed seppuku because their master had broken a rule by drawing his sword inside the palace.
What is False?