WARMUP
• Work on your study guide for Ming/Qing
while I check homework
Tomorrow
• Study Guide due tomorrow
• QUIZ!
– Let’s dominate your first quiz!!
Japan
CLOCK BUDDIES
Reminder: What was feudalism?
Warring States Period
• In 1467, civil war shattered
Japan’s old feudal system
– Era of violent disorder
• “Warring States” period
• Warriors, called daimyo,
became lords in a new kind of
Japanese feudalism
• Disorder spread throughout the
land as they battled for control
What’s a daimyo?
• A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a
private army of samurai and owned land
Partner #1
• How would you draw a daimyo?
• Oda Nobunaga, a
brutal and ambitious
daimyo, seized the
imperial capital - Kyoto
• Wanted to take control
of the entire country
• Motto = “Rule the
Empire by Force”
Partner #2
• What do you think of this motto?
• Have you seen it put into practice throughout
history?
• Nobunaga did crush an enemy force of
samurai cavalry
– Used firearms for the 1st time in Japan
• However, not successful in unifying Japan
• What will happen to Japan? What do
you think?
Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Defeats his rivals
• Completed the
unification of Japan and
became the sole ruler
• Moved Japan’s capital to a
small fishing village that
would later become Tokyo
Partner #3
• What can Tokugawa do to keep the
daimyo from rebelling against him?
• ALTERNATE ATTENDANCE POLICY:
Tokugawa required that they spend every
other year in the capital
– What would this do?
• Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate
– “shogunate” = military government
Tokugawa Japan
• Social class:
1. Emperor (figurehead)
2. Shogun
3. Daimyo (landholding
samurai)
4. Samurai warriors
5. Peasants and
Artisans  4/5 of the
population!
6. Merchants
Why do you think merchants
were placed at the bottom?
Europe and Japan
Based off this primary source from a Japanese observer,
what did the Europeans bring?
“In their hands they carried something two or three feet
long, straight on the outside with a passage inside, and
made of a heavy substance…This thing with one blow
can smash a mountain of silver and a wall of iron. If
one sought to do mischief in another man’s domain
and he was touched by it, he would lose his life
instantly.” -pg. 545
Who were the warriors in Japan?
What was their main weapon?
How would this change things?
European Encounters
• First interactions with Europeans – 1543
• Portuguese
– Brought clocks, eyeglasses, tobacco,
firearms, and other things
– Japanese merchants welcomed them
– Daimyos were especially interested in
firearms…
• Why do you think they were so interested in
firearms?
Partner #4
• Should Tokugawa be worried about the
Europeans? Why?
The Last Samurai…
• The way of the sword came slowly to an
end as daimyos began training peasants
to use the musket.
• Resisting samurai would lose their lives to
musket fire in future combat.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdUyH
e7XTEY
Christianity
• Were accepted at first
• 300,000 Japanese converted to Christianity by 1600
• This upset Tokugawa Ieyasu. Why???
– Worried about political rebellions
– Worried about beliefs changing
• By 1612, he banned Christianity and drove them out
Closed Country Policy
• In 1639, Japan instituted a closed-country
policy.
– They valued trade but not European ideas and ways.
• Nagasaki remained open to foreign traders
– Only Dutch and Chinese merchants were allowed
• Japan closed—internally and externally—for 200
years.
• What do you think? Good or bad?
Partner #5
• Describe why Japan closed the country
in the following acrostic:
• C• L• O• S• E• D-