Shogunate Japan

Shogunate Japan

1. Early Japan

   • Ancient
     • at least 30,000 ago
     • east ice age
       • traveled from korea
       • connected to mainland
       • End=islands
   • Jomon
     • c.8000BC-300BC
     • poetry in 8000BC
     • Jomon=cord marked
     • Hunter gathers
   • Heian
     • c.794-1185CE
       • similar to europe
     • Arts & learning flourished
     • 9th centurary
     • 200BCE
       • Early settlers from korea
       • Hunter gathers (north)
       • Rice cultivation from Korea
       • Bronze and iron used
     • 30BCE
       • Chiefdom=area under chief
       • Many Chiefdoms
       • Yoyoi people expanded
       • Wooden forts constructed
     • 500CE
       • Yamato kingdom established
       • All of Honshu controlled
       • Jomon resist growth
     • 750CE
       • Japanese culture flourishes
         • writing
         • music
         • art
         • buddhism
         • clothing
   • Yayoi
     • c.300BCE-300CE
     • Agriculture (rice)
     • Bronze and iron tools
     • Weave Cloth
       • Created culture
         • Clothes
     • Influence
       • Korea
       • China
     • Lived in villages
       • Wooden huts
     • Farming/other skills = classes

2. Social Structure

   • Shogun/emperor
     • Warrior Class (noble families, damiyo, samurai)
       • Farmers and peasants
         • Artisans and craftsmen
           • Merchants
             • Hinin including Ronin
               • Outcasts
               • Not part of society
               • Different ethnic groups
               • Jobs
                 • undertaker
                 • butcher
                 • considered wrong
             • Buy & sell
             • Low as only benefit themself
             • Shopkeepers, businessmen
           • Skilled
           • below peasants
           • Unnecessary items
             • Not essential for life
         • 90% population
         • Worked
         • Payed taxes
         • Food production=respect
         • Forced to pay tax
         • Different types
       • Warrior
         • Trained to fight
         • included samurai
         • had weapons
       • Noble Families
         • lordlike
         • Damiyo
         • Had land
           • Power, wealth
     • Emperor
       • Decent of sun godess
       • Inhherited power
       • Power changed
       • Heian power over all Japan
     • Shogun
       • Military leader
       • Controlled defense/attacks
       • power after 110
       • Ruled Japan

3. Belief and Religion

   • Shinto
     • Kami
       • god-like spirit
         • found in nature
           • e.g. wind
     • 4 noble truths
     • suffering
   • Buddhism
     • Buddha
     • 8 fold path
     • came from korea and china
       • came from india
     • monks
     • meditation
     • reach Nivarna
   • Confusianism
     • from china
     • Respect for elders, family, community
     • ancestor worship

4. Tokugawa Shogunate

   • Power=period of instability
   • 14th-15th centurary
   • 3 men = 3 unifiers
     • Odo Nobunga= 1st
       • Large section of japan
     • Toyotomi Hideyoshi=2nd
       • Born as a peasant
       • Successor of Odo
       • Took all weapons
         • Only samurai have weapons
       • Collected a census
       • restricted class movement
         • couldn't gang up
       • campaigne against christians
     • Tokugawa ieyasu=3rd
       • first emperor

5. Women

   • More respect than europe
   • not samurai
   • Home depended on them
   • No jelousy
   • must follow husband
     • unless immoral
   • No rude