Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ancient Japan
- Ancient Japan
- Religion
- Shinto
- nature
- means 'ways of the gods'
- sprit beings
- Buddhism
- Zen
- cleanliness
- washed often
- unlike the Europeans
- creation myth
- 4 main islands
- biggest=Honshu
- Time Periods
- Yamato State
- influence came
form mainland
- importance of military
- Johan
- pottery
- covered in strange markings
- Takia Reform
- Prince Shotoku
- influence from Korea to China
- adoption of Chinese ways
- gave the emperor more power
- taken from land owners
- Feudal Japan
- Emperor
- no major part in government
- religious leaders
- Shgon
- military dicators
- the leader of a clan
- most powerful dynamos
- Edo
- monks were trying to
convert the Japanese to Christianity
- mainly the Western tribes
- had been rejected in the
Tokugawa's reign
- Tokugawa was afraid of
growing power
- 17th century
- Closed to Doors
- Tokugawa banned all foreign contaact
- Only a handful of Dutch traders allowed
- small window to the West
- but Japan was behind
(industrial revolution)
- The English opened up China
- American saw what the English, French etc..
- decided to do the same to Japan
- Mathew Perry arrived
- twice
- first time just to let them know
that they were their
- wanted change
- coal for ship
- ship wrecked sailors
would be saved
- after a time lots of Europeans came
- Shogun was blamed
- there is a young emperor and a young shogun
- and the rival dynamos make to shogun abdicate
- the young emperor is the ruler
- called the Meiji Restoration
- 1870's
- the dynamos became is advisors
- modernism of Japan
- to stand up to the West
- took the best of everything
- no more samurai
- along Western lines
- became a Western power
- fought China for Korea and won
- but then Russia took Korea
- Japan and Russia had a war
- Japan won because
it is modern
- all Christians banned and killed
- a little contact with China
- Shakuko- closed doors