Tokugawa Shogunate

Tokugawa Shogunate

1. Tokugawa

   • Samurai
     • who worked his way up within
       • Oda Nobunaga
       • Toyotomi Hideyoshi
     • Daimyo
       • (noble)
       • Shogun
         • (warrior/knight)
         • Appointed by emperor
           • why?
             • considered to be divine
               • CONTINUITY does not lose divine status until after World War II
               • Shintoism
               • legitamacy
                 • decisions made in the name of the emperor
         • Portuguese
           • Bring Jesuit missonairies
             • If christianity spreads than
               • only 1 god
               • ONLY 1 GOD
                 • Emperor not a god
                   • No longer legitimacy
               • Christians in Japan
                 • Covert
                 • or die

2. Exclusion Decrees

   • Isolates Japan for centuries

3. Establishes Hierarchy

   • Emperor
     • Shogun
       • Daimyos
         • Samurai
           • Lower classes
             • Merchants
               • Money
                 • but, no power
             • Artisans
             • Peasants
               • 80%
               • Grow rice
                 • taxed for 40% - 60%
       • Monoply
         • silk (China)
         • land
         • mines
           • gold
           • silver
       • Trades for guns
         • creates dependency on Portuguese
           • so studies
             • and make own better ones
   • NO SOCIAL MOBILITY

4. Economy

   • goes decline
     • decline in production of gold and silver
       • currency for trade
       • so create new coins that mimic
         • devalue currency
           • intentional
             • raise taxes
             • grow more rice
               • more land
                 • cut down more trees
               • natural disasters
                 • less rice
                   • supply chain problem
             • cut spending
               • pay people less
           • creates inflation
           • most would trade
             • but, isolated
   • Economy
     • daimyos grow rice
       • rice
     • Samurai (C.B.)
       • paid rice
         • merchants
           • benefiting, while all others are suffering
           • get loans from Daimyos
           • towns/villages
           • give gold and silver

5. 1800s

   • EUR
     • RUS
     • British
   • some daimyos
     • want to isolate
     • want to drop isolationism
   • USA
     • Perry
       • Treaty of Kanagawa
         • opens up trade
           • mad
             • internal strife
               • conservatives
               • liberals
                 • Meiji Restoration
                   • Westernization
                   • Modernization