Class Hierarchy
The role with the most power in Edo Japan
What is a Shogun?
Japan is located within this, follows the edge of tectonic plates
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
A policy banning foreigners from Japan that lasted 200 years
What is the Sakoku Edict of 1635?
Became administrators and bureaucrats
What did Samurai transition to?
The highly complicated blood vein like map of the Tokyo Subway System
What is an adaption of limited land?
The figure head with no real power
What is an Emperor?
Usually follows after an earthquake by the shore
What is a tsunami?
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Who was responsible for implementing Sakoku?
Caused a consumer culture to grow along with a cultural boom of art forms
What is Urbanization?
If a bird does not sing, kill the bird
Who is Oda Nobunaga?
Could be killed be samurai for no reason
What are the "Non-humans"?
This caused Japan to innovate and build vertically
What is Limited Land or Mountainous terrain?
The Dutch/Netherlands
What country was still allowed to trade with Japan in a limited capacity?
This caused Japanese citizens to have one of the highest literacy rates at the time
What are Terakoyas?
If a bird does not sing, make it sing
Who is Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
Were seen as lowly since they didn't make their own goods, but still could be rich
What is a merchant?
The biggest mountain and active volcano in Japan
What is Mt. Fuji?
Where Sakoku was first declared
Where is Fort Dejima, Nagasaki?
Developing these during Edo lead to a quick modernization when Japan opened up.
What are highway networks/ roadways?
Giant sphere inside and at the top of a skyscraper
What is Anti-Earthquake technology/adaptions?
The class with the most respect, excluding nobility, due to creation of goods
What are the Farmers?
Made it easier to isolate Japan because it was surrounded by it
What is the Sea of Japan?
1635
What is the year Sakoku was implemented?
A military system requiring generals to constantly be travelling in order to keep their resources low
What is Bakufu?
It symbolizes a transition point where a sacred space begins
What is a Torii Gate?