Transcript Feudal Japan: The Tokugawa & Samurai

Feudal Japan: The
Tokugawa & Samurai
Global History I: Spiconardi
The Samurai
 Bushido  The way of the warrior
 Code of conduct for the samurai
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Any samurai who violated this code was expected to
commit seppuku
 Seppuku  ritual suicide in which a samurai
disembowels himself (a.k.a. hara-kiri)
The Tokugawa Shogunate
 Comes to power in 1603 and reigns over a 265
year period of peace
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Forced all the warring daimyo to live in the
capital city of Edo (Tokyo)
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Any daimyo who left Edo was required to have their
family remain
Toku-GO-AWAY!
 Isolation
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Tokugawa distrusted foreigners
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Banned all western merchants
Prohibited Japanese from traveling abroad
 Caused increase in internal trade
 Merchants gradually gain influence in feudal society
Tokugawa Shogunate
 Cultural Developments
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Kabuki Form of theatre in which actors wore
bright & colorful costumes
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Originally only women performed
 Became so popular men wanted in and banned women
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Haiku Form of poetry in which the verse
usually contains a 17-mora verse
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Tōkyō (to-o-kyo-o とうきょう),