Vocab
Vocab 2
Society and Everyday Life
Contact with the West
Industrialisation
100

the hereditary monarch and head of state of Japan

Emperor

100

A military governor ruling Japan until the revolution of 1867–68 

Shogun

100

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.

100

A group of industrial and financial companies that controlled a large part of the economy of Japan until World War II

Zaibatsu

200

A member of a military class of high social rank from the eleventh century to the nineteenth century in Japan.

Samurai

200

the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868

Tokugawa shogunate

200

Daimyo, Samurai

200

The Imperial _____ was Japan's equivalent of a parliament

Diet

200

A monthly living allowance paid in kind, usually in rice.

Stipend

300

Powerful landholding lords/nobles in Japan from about the tenth century until the latter half of the nineteenth century

Daimyo

300

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

300

Japan's new constitution was based on which country's system?

Prussia

300

3 pieces of infrastructure built by 1871

telegraph, rail, postal service

400

Merchants and shopkeepers of the Tokugawa period.

Chonin

400

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

400

Two houses of Japan's parliament

Upper: House of peers

Lower: Lower house

400

The system used by the Meiji Government to initially raise funds

Land taxation

500

A Japanese religion according to which people worship past members of their families and various gods who represent natural forces.

Shinto

500

An anti-foreign social movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s. Its slogan was 'Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians'.

Sonno Joi

500

Other name for the privy council

Genro