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Feudal Japan: The Tokugawa & Samurai

Explore the code of conduct for the samurai in feudal Japan, including Bushido principles and the Tokugawa Shogunate's rule over a 265-year period. Discover the significance of seppuku, isolation policies, and cultural developments such as Kabuki theater and Haiku poetry.

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Feudal Japan: The Tokugawa & Samurai

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  1. Feudal Japan: The Tokugawa & Samurai Global History I: Spiconardi

  2. The Samurai • Bushido  The way of the warrior • Code of conduct for the samurai • Any samurai who violated this code was expected to commit seppuku • Seppuku  ritual suicide in which a samurai disembowels himself (a.k.a. hara-kiri)

  3. Bushido Read the excerpt from “A Samurai Instructs His Son.” What qualities should a samurai possess?

  4. The Tokugawa Shogunate • Comes to power in 1603 and reigns over a 265 year period of peace • Forced all the warring daimyo to live in the capital city of Edo (Tokyo) • Any daimyo who left Edo was required to have their family remain

  5. Toku-GO-AWAY! • Isolation • Tokugawa distrusted foreigners • Banned all western merchants • Prohibited Japanese from traveling abroad • Caused increase in internal trade • Merchants gradually gain influence in feudal society

  6. Tokugawa Highway System ...Perhaps the most crucial use of the road was for governmental communication with the provinces. Official messengers traveled by foot, horseback (in wartime), and palanquin. The government used a system of relays for messengers, with reliefs at every seven li [3.9 km]. Government messengers had priority over any other type of traveler. They had first access to ferries at river crossings along the way, and could freely pass government road barriers at all times of the day or night. Private citizens were not allowed to travel at night; a series of barriers and checkpoints along the road kept them from doing so…. According to Patricia J. Graham, what were two ways the Tokugawa controlled the use of the Tōkaidō Road?

  7. Tokugawa Shogunate • Cultural Developments • Kabuki Form of theatre in which actors wore bright & colorful costumes • Originally only women performed • Became so popular men wanted in and banned women • Haiku Form of poetry in which the verse usually contains a 17-mora verse • Tōkyō (to-o-kyo-oとうきょう),

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