• The Sengoku period (1467 - 1573) started with and continued after the Onin War. The Sengoku period is described to be what historians call a century and a half of civil war in japan which started in the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. The sengoku period started during the 14th century when chaos spread throughout japan‚ this was because the power of the Ashikaga shogunate had almost declined completely and the shugo (governors chosen by the Shogun to supervise one or more of the provinces
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Chapter 27 – Tradition and Change in East Asia The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 Restored traditional Chinese rule Hongwu was founder Tried to drive out any Mongol influence Used mandarins to travel through the empire to make sure policy was being followed o Also used eunuchs who were loyal to the gov’t because they couldn’t have families The Emperor Yongle used the navy to expand and show China’s power Kept powerful army to keep out invaders in the early years o Mongol armies
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Toyotomi left his family behind and became the page to the retainer of the daimyo of Tomomi. After his short span of becoming a page‚ he returned home to become part of the foot soldiers. The leader of the soldier‚ Oda Nobunaga‚ believed Toyotomi was a cheerful and intelligent man which promoted him into becoming a samurai. Around 1570‚ Toyotomi was fighting very important battles and by 1573‚ he overthrew two very wealthy daimyos and quickly became a lord of Nagahama. By late the 1570’s‚ Toyotomi began
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To control daimyo‚ he initiated an extensive project of shifting daimyo about. In the process he stripped many erstwhile enemies of their lands‚ placed a number of his allies in strategic locations near surviving enemies‚ and secured for himself and his most faithful vassals direct control of
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code stated that a samurai had to live by honour. If a samurai was to lose his honour he would have to commit suicide. Samurai could lose their honour by failing to protect their daimyo‚ losing one of their swords‚ or losing in battle. This meant that samurai had to be on guard at all times‚ and had to protect the daimyo with their life. The knight code of chivalry stated that a knight had to be polite‚ courageous‚ honourable‚ and honest. If a knight was to lose their honour‚ they would do everything
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Japan had a shogun and Europe had a king. The shogun was the person who was in charge and made most of the decisions just like a king in Europe did. The daimyo in Japan were like the nobles in Europe. The “shogun ruled the land through the daimyo and the king ruled the land through the nobles”. Although they were similar in many ways they were also different. One way feudalism in Japan was different than Medieval Europe was that Japan had a figurehead
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In Depth: Comparing Feudalisms 1. Do you think the characteristics of feudalism help explain the later success of Western & Japanese societies? Yes‚ the militaristic characteristics of the Western and Japanese societies help explain how much land they conquered and how powerful they were. 2. Have the political accomplishments of both Japan & Western Europe matched their economic achievements? Both Japan and Western Europe practiced feudalism and they were both unusually successful in industrial
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problems. The rich were getting away with basically anything‚ and the poor were being taxed to death. This was especially big in France as well as other countries such as Japan. The taxation was mostly prominent in the era of Tokugawa. With all the Daimyos and Samurai‚ if you were a peasant‚ life would be incredibly hard to live. This was all changed by the Revolutionary Meiji Restoration. During the Tokugawa period‚ Japan had decided to close off any communication to anything western. They wouldn’t
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Background to the Story of the 47 Ronin: During the Tokugawa era in Japanese history‚ the country was ruled by the shogun‚ or highest military official‚ in the name of the emperor. Under him were a number of regional lords‚ the daimyo‚ each of whom employed a contingent of samurai warriors. All of these military elites were expected to follow the code of bushido - the "way of the warrior." Among the demands of bushido were loyalty to one’s master‚ and fearlessness in the face of death. The story
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“MEIJI ERA’s (1868-1912) IMPORTANCE IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION.” Japan is a country that has never been colonised and was never colonised during the colonial period. It was governed by the Emperors‚ Shoguns‚ Daimyos and the Samurais through the feudal structure of governance with the Emperor as the head of the hierarchy. It maintained its isolationist policy and never opened-up to the outside world for centuries and was in a stagnant stage in terms of development. However‚ in the 19th Century it dumped
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