Japan is ripe in culture and history that is not so dissimilar from western history both went through a bustling feudal era with many similarities. The main similarity was their order of honorable soldiers‚ which were knights in the west and Samurai in Japan but both followed a similar code of honor and loyalty. The real question is how did this class of aristocratic warriors rise out of nothing to become the ruling class of Japan. The Samurai are one of Japan’s most iconic cultural symbol that has
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these landowning clans‚ the Minamoto and Taira eventually challenged the central government and attacked each other of supremacy over the entire country. Minamoto Yoritomo emerged victorious and build a new military government in 1192‚ directed by the shogun or supreme military commander. The samurai would rule over Japan for most of the next 700 years.
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began struggling for power. Finally‚ a man named Ieyasu Tokugawa came out the victor‚ making himself the shogun and establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate. With the arrival of the Tokugawa shoguns‚ came a more centralized government. While the shoguns allowed the daimyo to rule their local areas‚ the shoguns still had complete control over the daimyo. This meant that the authority of the shogun extended from lord to peasant. Thanks to the policies and structural stability of the Tokugawa Shogunate
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Tokugawa Regime” The Tokugawa period (1603-1868)‚ also called the Edo period‚ was the final phase of traditional Japan. It was a time of internal peace‚ political stability‚ and economic growth under the shogunate founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. As shogun‚ Ieyasu achieved dominance over the entire country by balancing the power of “potentially hostile domains with strategically placed allies and collateral houses” (McClain 1944 pg. 31). It was an era of oppressive rule where the hierarchical division
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The end of Makufu in Japanese history always created chaos and anarchic situation overall within the civil war‚ the change of emperor or shogun. However‚ Edo makufu was little different from others‚ foreign external force and samurai’s internal privilege stimulated the change of makufu and their feudalistic system. During Senkoku era and civil war‚ absolute power and sword restrained and managed other daimyo’s political influence to make peaceful nation as one makufu. But because Edo makufu raised
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for ports to open up. The decisions for these treaties were made by the Shogun‚ the military dictator of Japan’s iconic warrior class‚ the samurais. The Shogun found no problem with having to trade with foreigners‚ and without dawdles‚ welcomed them in. However‚ it wasn’t long till the Shomse European countries (Kick the French out‚ they’re pirates) (Don’t trust England‚ they’re liars) pouring down to the ears of the Shogun‚ it was without question that he was feeling agitated. However‚ the big
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Emperor was reduced to selling calligraphy on the streets of Kyoto to support the imperial household‚ but usually the Emperor received money based on the kindness of the Shogunate.Footnote2 But despite this obvious power imbalance even the Tokugawa Shogun was at least symbolically below the Emperor in status and he claimed to rule so he could carry out the Imperial rule.Footnote3 Within this historical context the Meiji leaders realized that they needed to harness the concept of the
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Minamoto no Yoritomo The first Shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan. What the significance of Yoritomo in Japan?  Growing up Minamoto no Yoritomo wasborn in 1147 and died in 1199 at the age of 51. He ruled from 1192 untill 1199. At his last mission he tried to destroy 50 boats but he only destroyed half and was outnumbered. At the age of 14 Minamoto no Yoritomo was sent away to the care of guardian Ito Sukechicka. While he was there he developed his skills in practicing the arts of
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attempting to unify Japan under central government‚ European ships were beginning to make their to the islands. 3. How did the Tokugawa Shogunate fall into decline and crisis The Tokugawa Shogunate started to decline in 1614‚ when the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu banned the practice of
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oligarchy. During the Tokugawa Shogunate‚ the entire country was effectively ruled by one man and the government was decentralised. The Meiji Restoration however changed the governmental model‚ using some socialist methods. Initially after mutiny of the Shogun‚ the few leaders of the Revolution had no formal title‚ but with the creation of the Meiji Constitution they were known as the Genro. At first the new government would look like a monarchy‚ the form of government would in essence be an oligarchy
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