Shogunate Japan

Shogunate Japan

1. The Four Periods

   • Jomon
     • 710- 794 AD
   • Nara
     • 10000 BC
   • Heian
     • 794- 1184
   • Shogunate
     • 1185- 1868

2. Shogunates

   • Kamakura: 1185- 1333 AD
   • Muromachi: 1366- 1538 AD
   • Tokugawa: 1600- 1868AD

3. Hierarchy of power

   • Peasants
     • Grew food for the society
     • Paid taxes to daimyo
   • Daimyo
     • Noble families
       • Owned land (shoen) and taxed people on the land
     • about 260
   • Samurai
     • warriors who were employed by the daimyo
     • Helped control his land- paid in rice
     • allowed to carry weapons
   • Artisans
     • Crafted non-essential things
       • not highly regarded
   • Merchants
     • Lowest
     • could be wealthy but were not respected
   • confucianism

4. Belief systems

   • Shinto
     • Based on animism
     • spirits: kami
     • when you die you enter the spirit world
     • closely linked to nature
     • shrines put in natural places
   • Buddhism
     • meditation + dicipline
     • human behaviour= act of art
     • respect others
     • Four noble truths
   • Confucianism

5. Art and Culture

   • wood block printing
   • calligraphy
   • dogu figures
   • pottery
   • painting
   • Poetry
   • origami

6. Tokugawa Shogunate

   • Peasants could not own weapns
   • Daimyo had restricted number of samurai
   • Samurai forced to take up gov. positions
   • No contact with outside world
   • Could not ascend the social ladder
   • Emperor had no power
   • The third Shogunate that emerged from the Warring states period
   • Won the battle at Sekigahara in 1600
   • Proclaimed Shogun in 1603
   • Ruled from Edo (modern day Tokyo)

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