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Japan Limits Western Contacts

Japan Limits Western Contacts. Strong Leaders Take Control. A time of chaos, called the Warring States period, develops when powerful samurai take control of feudal lands, daimyo (warrior-chieftains) become lords of the land, and peasants are offered protection in return for their loyalty.

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Japan Limits Western Contacts

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  1. Japan Limits Western Contacts

  2. Strong Leaders Take Control • A time of chaos, called the Warring States period, develops when powerful samurai take control of feudal lands, daimyo (warrior-chieftains) become lords of the land, and peasants are offered protection in return for their loyalty. • The emperor has little control • (What does this similar to that we have already studied?)

  3. (Oda Nobunaga takes control of Kyoto by defeating rival daimyo) • (Nobunaga commits seppuku and his general Toyotomi Hideyoshi takes over) • Toyotomi Hideyoshi controlled most of Japan and then invaded Korea and Ming China • (After Hideyoshi dies troops withdraw from Korea) • Tokugawa Ieyasu completes unification of Japan and becomes shogun (actual ruler), founding the Tokugawa Shogunate

  4. Tokugawa Society and Culture • Japan begins to shift from a rural to an urban society. • Peasant farmers paid most of the taxes and had more difficulties than other classes • New styles of drama (kabuki), art (woodblock prints), and literature (haiku) arise in the cities to challenge traditional culture

  5. Contact Between Europe and Japan • At first the Japanese welcome Portuguese traders who bring European technology (firearms, cannons) • Christianity is welcomed at first, then restricted, then banned • Japan then instituted a “closed country policy” only allowing trade at the port of Nagasaki and only trading with Dutch and Chinese

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