• The bakufu = Japan’s system of
government during the Tokugawa period,
based on a military leader, the Shogun
• Baku-han = the division of power between
Japan’s national leader, the Shogun, and
leaders of regions or han, the Daimyo
• Daimyo = feudal lord. He ruled a region or
han of Japan
• Alternate attendance: the system of
compulsory residence by the daimyo in Edo
during alternate years.
• Russia, Britain, France apply pressure for
trade treaties
• Financial strain on Samurai and Daimyo
• Ronin
• Conflict between Daimyo and Shogun
Identify the threats above that are
internal to Japan and those that are
external
• Samurai had status but lacked a clear
role
• Merchants were becoming
increasingly wealthy but had little
status and power
• But the classes were now mixing
• Rich merchants could buy into lower
ranks of samurai
• Seclusion or Sakoku helped social
stability
• But is it realistic?
• Write 3 disadvantages in bullet point
form
Perry in
Japan
 Coaling stations.

More trading
partners.

A haven for
ship-wrecked
sailors.
Meeting the Imperial Commissioners at
Yokohama
The black ships
Japanese ship
The Treaty of Kanagawa - 1854
• Convention of Kanagawa 1854 –
diplomatic relations
• Five years later – treaties with most
European nations
• Some Samurai deeply resented
(hated) these “unequal” (unfair)
treaties forced on Japan
In 1862, just before the
start of the Meiji period,
Tokugawa sent officials and
scholars to China to study
the situation there. A
Japanese recorded in his
diary from Shanghai…
The Chinese have become
servants to the foreigners.
Sovereignty may belong to
China but in fact it's no
more than a colony of Great
Britain and France.
Meiji Restoration
1868 -1912
Chronology
1573-1600, “Warring States” - Transitional Era
1635, Shogunate forbids Japanese to travel overseas
1639, Portugese ships forbidden; Japan closed to outside world
1641, Dutch Trading Mission is moved to Nagasaki
1600-1868, Tokugawa Period - Centralized Feudalism era
1853-54, Perry Mission to “open” Japan
1854, Japan concludes friendship treaties with U.S., Britain,
France & Netherlands; three ports open to foreign trade
1868, Meiji Restoration
1877, Satsuma Rebellion
1881, Sale of government industries to new zaibatsau
1889, Meiji Constitution
1894-5,Sino-Japanese War, Japan becomes imperialist power
1904-5, Russo-Japanese War
1910, colonization of Korea
1912, emperor Meji dies
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