Transcript Japan, Tokugawa & Korea

Chapter 16
Japan, Tokugawa and
Korea
By: Andy, Anja, Milda,
Lauryn and Andrew
Life in the Tokugawa village
• Increase of central government on
local levels.
• Family became increasingly important
• Women became even more restricted
– Expected to obey their husbands on
pain of death
Tokugawa Culture
• Was influenced by Confucian themes, Buddhist
quietism, and the Samurai warrior tradition.
• Flourished under the patronage of the
shogunate.
• With the development of woodblock printing in
the 17th century, literature became available to
common people causing literacy levels to rise
and lending libraries increased the accessibility
of the printed texts.
• Previous mood of the area was gloom and doom
but now it was cheerful and frivolous.
• New sets of cultures began to appear, especially
in the cities.
Literature of the New Middle Class
• Saikaku was best novelist in that era.
He wrote The Five Women Who
Loved Love.
• Theatrical achievements: No, Kabuki
styles which were focused on
violence, music and dramatic
gestures.
• Basho was “the greatest of all poets”.
Tokugawa Art
• Gold foil was used in palaces to
reflect light
• Western influence in; medicine,
astronomy, languages, oil painting.
Woodstock printing was a very major
influence.
Korea: The Hermit Kingdom
• 15th century: Creation of Phonetic
alphabet in Korean
• Manchu force invaded and took over
Korea
• Contact with the West was extremely
limited.
CONCLUSION
• In 1540s small contingent of Portuguese
merchants became 1st Europeans to set
foot in Japan
• Welcomed at first; but success was short
lived
• Eventually evicted from China, Japan and
Korea because they were seen as
detrimental to law and order
• From 17th -19th century, all three countries
were barely affected by events outside
their borders
CONCLUSION Cont.
• Tokugawa Japan was especially
marked by change
• Emergence of new merchant class
• Powerful Tokugawa shogunate began
to centralize
• Traditional classes and institutions
came under increasing strain
• By beginning of 19th century powerful
tensions were at work in China and
Japan
•THE END