Key Terms
A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos.
samurai
What does the word “samurai” literally mean?
Those who serve
This Chinese philosophy provided a respectable ideological underpinning for the bakufu.
neo-Confucianism
Who did Tokugawa shogunate trade with?
The structure of Japanese society is based of what Chinese philosophy?
Confucianism
A wandering samurai who had no lord or master.
ronin
Who held real political power in Japan in the mid-12th century?
Shogun and the samurai
This Japanese style of theater was a mix of drama and dance that could get bawdy.
kabuki theater
“Alternate attendance” in the city of ____ helped the shoguns control the daimyo. The daimyo had to spend money on their lifestyle rather than military means, their meetings were all arranged, and marriages were approved by bakufu.
Edo
What was ONE way the Japnese limited the growth of their population?
contraception and infantacide - “thinning out the rice shoots”
One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.
daimyo
The samurai were drawn to this religion/philosophy because of its strict and simple rules and rituals with a chance at salvation.
Zen Buddhism
In the 1700s there was a push to adopt this traditional Japanese religion and to reject outside ideologies.
Shintoism
The Tokugawa Ieyasu ended the internal conflict within and unified Japan under military a government known as bakufu which translated means?
tent government
The Shogun was eventually overthrown in 1867. What government took its place - this government ended feudalism in Japan?
Meiji Restoration
A hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan.
shogun
WHY did the role of samurai change?
In a peaceful Japan, many samurai were forced to become bureaucrats or take up some type of trade, even as they preserved their conception of themselves as fighting men.
The Ukiyo or ____ entertainment and pleasure quarters - teahouses, theaters, brothels, and public baths.
floating worlds
What social group had trading interests with Europeans which eventually pushed the shogun regulate and control trade with outside nations.
Daimyo
Merchants became wealthy and prominent as who was forced into the into the government bureacracy?
daimyo and samurai
Japan's indigenous religion and belief system, which translates to "the way of the gods".
Shintoism
During the Meiji Restorationwhat was abolished?
feudalism
This brought considerable learning to Japan; Japan’s principal source of world information outside East Asia
Dutch learning
This was a Jesuit missionary who went to Japan to spread Christianity.
Francis Xavier
What group in Japanese society was at the bottom.
merchants