What do your images & quotes say
about Shogunate Japan society?
1. Write 3 questions and 1 fact (for each image).
Learning
intention
2. Discuss in small groups.
3. In your group pick your 8 best questions.
4. Place them on your lotus diagram.
5. Circle time!
Social Skill:
To contribute actively,
asking and answering
open/fat questions in a
team
6. In small groups each person needs to
attempt to answer each question. Not sure?
GUESS!
7. PEC paragraph: What do your images &
quotes say about Shogunate Japan society?
8. Participation pie & parking lot
Understanding:
To draw conclusions
about Shogunate Japan
society by
summarising,
questioning and
discussing primary and
secondary sources
Rice taxes being paid to Daimyo, unknown artist, late 16th century.
Held at Tokyo University, Japan
‘The husband must work in the fields, the
wife must work at the loom [a device for
spinning cloth]. Both must do night work
… Peasants are people without sense or
foresight. Therefore they must not give
rice to their wives at harvest time, but
must save food for the future.’
Instructions for peasants taken from the Edict 1649
‘Farmers of all provinces are strictly
forbidden to have in their possession any
swords, short swords, bows, spears,
firearms, or other types of weapons.’
Japan: A Documentary History
‘If one were to say in a word what the
condition of being a samurai is, its basis lies
first in seriously devoting one’s body and
soul to his master. And if one is asked what
to do beyond this, it would be to fit oneself
inwardly with intelligence, humanity and
courage.’
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Original Nobukazu (1874 - 1944) Japanese Woodblock Print
Tokugawa Ieyasu Escaping, 1893
‘It was a great occasion for a boy when he
turned five, to be dressed as a samurai and
have a real sword thrust in his waistband.
Lessons consisted of fencing (sword
fighting), archery, jiujutsu (unarmed
combat), horsemanship, the use of spear,
tactics, calligraphy, ethics, literature and
history.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
Putting on samurai armour was a complicated and time-consuming procedure that involved
many stages. Four stages of the procedure are shown here.
‘Shintoism, the first major religion to develop in Japan,
was based on nature. Shinto shrines have few objects
and instruments of worship. A plain mirror hung in the
sanctuary forms an essential part of the furnishing, it
typifies the human heart, which when placed and
clear reflects the very image of the Deity. When you
stand, therefore in front of the shrine to worship, you
see your own image reflected on its shining surfaces,
and the act of worship ‘know thyself’’.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
Station of Otsu: From the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (The "Reisho Tokaido"), Edo
period (1615–1868), ca. 1848–49
Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Polychrome woodblock print
Utagama Hiroshiga: Evening shower at
Atake and the Great Bridge 1857