What's it called?
The central administration of the government, which made most of the decisions for the Shogun
What was one of the earliest nations to trade with Japan (1500's)
What is Portugal?
Who is the figurehead of the shogunate?
What is the Emperor?
What of the peasants was heavily taxed by the Daimyo (60%)
What is rice?
Who arrived in Japan from the US on boat with the demands to open Japan for trade?
Who was Commodore Perry?
Province of Japan crucial to the shogunate
What is Han?
What did the Portuguese spread to Japan, leading to their expulsion (1639) and Spanish expulsion (1924), and restricted the Dutch to Nagasaki (1641)
What is Christianity?
Who is in charge of keeping the Japanese in order?
What are the Samurai?
Famines: 1720s; 1780s; 1830s Led to this
What are peasant uprisings?
To this country the Pacific Ocean became a sphere of interest meaning trade with japan?
What is The United States?
Samurai code of conduct: "the way of the warrior"
What is Bushido?
Who brought Anatomy science to Japan?
Who are the Dutch?
Who were the leaders of the samurai?
What are Daimyos?
Action of financially unstable samurai that meant relinquishing ones title of Samurai to make some money
What is selling ones sword?
1869: The capital moved to Edo and was renamed Tokyo. Japan begins to build a modern state called...
What is Meiji Japan?
Samurai ritualistic suicide
What is Seppuku?
For what reason were 26 people speared in Japan as a warning?
What is the spread of christianity?
Who, later in the shogunate, gained more status than many Samurai and Ronin?
What are the peasants?
Each domain lord was required to spend alternating years in their own domain capitals or attending the shogun's court in Edo
Alternate attendance system
What was the Traty of Kanagawa?
Masterless samurai
What is Ronin?
What modern technology did the Portuguese introduce to Japan that the Japanese kept?
What are firearms?
Who is lowest in the Tokugawa social structure pyramid?
Who are the merchants?
What major change was made to Japan that led to devotion to the emperor, Shinto, and Japanese culture?
What is new literary movement of national learning (kokugaku)?
bakufu declared “western barbarians have become steadily more unruly, and moreover, seem to be propagating their wicked religion among our people…Henceforth whenever a foreign ship is sighted approaching any point on our coast, all persons on hand should fire on and drive it off.”
What is the Expulsion Edict of 1825?