Vocabulary
What is a shogun?
A military ruler who was the only one allowed to carry a sword.
What are samurai?
The highest social class in Edo Japan.
What is group responsibility and shame?
Each person was responsible for the behaviour of others.
What is Edo called today?
Tokyo.
How many rules were there regulating dress?
There was 216 rules.
What is a damiyo?
A powerful landowning lord who controlled territory and owed loyalty to the shogun.
What are peasants?
The class responsible for food in society.
What is Confucianism?
A belief system that taught that everyone has a proper place in society?
This group ruled Japan during the Edo period?
The shoguns.
Were peasant allowed to wear silk clothing?
No. Peasants were not allowed, even if they were silk farmers.
What are ethical codes?
A system of moral principals guiding behaviour.
What are artisans?
Craftspeople who lived in towns or cities
( Lower status than peasants )
What is loyalty? Hint: Obedience
Samurai and ronin were expected to show this to their leaders.
This person had a huge title but very little power:
Emperor.
What is hereditary?
Being born into your social class, you cannot change it.
Who is a philosopher?
A person who studies the truth and principles underlying human conduct and knowledge and the nature of the universe.
What are merchants?
They bought items from artisans to trade and sell to others, they also shipped and distributed food.
Who are the 47 ronin?
The story of 47 warriors that show extreme loyalty and revenge.
When did the Edo period begin?
1600.
What are social controls?
What is seppuku?
Ritual suicide.
Put these in highest to lowest:
Samurai
Peasants
Artisans
Merchants
People were expected to be extremely loyal to these three people:
Emperor, samurai, damiyo.
When did the Edo period end?
1800-1868.
What is alternate attendance?
Damiyo were forced to live every second year in Edo.