Tokugawa Period 12 Japan Origins of Tokugawa Oda

Tokugawa Period 12 Japan

Origins of Tokugawa Ø Oda Nobunaga Ø Hideyoshi Toyotomi Ø Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa and its control system Ø Tokugawa Period (also called Tokugawa Shogunate): 1568 – 1868 AD Ø Tokugawa System: Ø Daimyo and their Han (Domain) l l l Shimpan: Family Fudai: Household Tozama: Outsiders

Tokugawa and it’s control system Ø Daimyo and their Han (Domain) l l l Shimpan Fudai Tozama

Tokugawa and it’s control system Ø Alternate residence Ø Hostage system Ø Conscription public works Ø Domain rearrangement.

Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms Caste system: Ø Samurai Ø Artisans Ø Farmers Ø Merchants Ø Burakumin l aka: Eta

Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms Ø Fixed Residences and Fixed occupations Ø International Restrictions: l Christianity in Japan? Ø Tokugawa Success: 200 years of general peace Ø Samurai culture and bushido dominant Ø Kenno Code: Bushido as legal code + proscription on corruption or non-sanctioned violence

Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms Ø Urban society l l l Art Literature Entertainment Chushingura – 47 Ronin

Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms Ø National Transportation network Ø Unified Language Ø Unified Culture Ø Money Economy Ø Farmer’s wealth

Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms Ø Daimyo impoverished Ø Wealthy Merchants Ø Daimyo and Samurai Relationship changes Ø Samurai as Bureaucrats l Warriors without war Ø Decay and corruption at the center

Tokugawa Meets the West Dutch Learning Ø China’s unequal treaties 1840 s: Japan made uneasy Ø Ø Commodore Perry: 1853

Tokugawa Meets the West Ø Shogun’s response Ø Kanagawa Treaty: 1854 Ø Harris Treaty: 1858 Open ports l Extraterritoriality l Tariffs l

Tokugawa Meets the West Ø Young Samurai Reaction Ø Choshu incident: 1863 l l Domestic Response Foreign Response

Tokugawa Meets the West Ø Choshu’s new resolution Ø Satsuma and Choshu: them? Who, and why