Vocab
the hereditary monarch and head of state of Japan
Emperor
A military governor ruling Japan until the revolution of 1867–68
Shogun
During the Edo Period, which had more power: The Shogun or the Emperor?
Shogun, The Emperor of Japan coexisted as a weak marionette, subject to the dominance of the bakufu government of the Shogun.
A group of industrial and financial companies that controlled a large part of the economy of Japan until World War II
Zaibatsu
A member of a military class of high social rank from the eleventh century to the nineteenth century in Japan.
Samurai
the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868
Tokugawa shogunate
Name the two groups missing in the social hierarchy
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Daimyo, Samurai
The Imperial _____ was Japan's equivalent of a parliament
Diet
A monthly living allowance paid in kind, usually in rice.
Stipend
Powerful landholding lords/nobles in Japan from about the tenth century until the latter half of the nineteenth century
Daimyo
The system of military government that operated in Japan from 1192 to 1868. Its powers grew under the Tokugawa Shogunate to extend to all matters of feudal life.
Bakufu
Japan's new constitution was based on which country's system?
Prussia
3 pieces of infrastructure built by 1871
telegraph, rail, postal service
Merchants and shopkeepers of the Tokugawa period.
Chonin
A system that regulated life during the Tokugawa period. The daimyo (lords) provided land to the peasants to work and pay taxes for, and in return the daimyo provided protection to them with their samurai warriors.
Feudalism
Two houses of Japan's parliament
Upper: House of peers
Lower: Lower house
The system used by the Meiji Government to initially raise funds
Land taxation
A Japanese religion according to which people worship past members of their families and various gods who represent natural forces.
Shinto
An anti-foreign social movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s. Its slogan was 'Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians'.
Sonno Joi
Other name for the privy council
Genro