1 / 20

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616). 1603 accepted the title “Shogun” Established Edo as the Capital Tokugawa Japan 1600-1868. Tokugawa (Edo) Japan (1600-1868). Class Divisions in Edo Japan. Warrior - 7% of the population Farmers - 90% Artisans Merchants. Japan is divided into Hans .

jenna
Download Presentation

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) • 1603 accepted the title “Shogun” • Established Edo as the Capital • Tokugawa Japan 1600-1868

  2. Tokugawa (Edo) Japan (1600-1868)

  3. Class Divisions in Edo Japan • Warrior - 7% of the population • Farmers - 90% • Artisans • Merchants

  4. Japan is divided into Hans Each Han controlled by a Daimyo

  5. Daimyo Must Establish Rule • Samurai must choose a Daimyo for life • Samurai must live in a castle town (stipends)

  6. Tokugawa Peasants “Making certain they can neither live nor die” Tokugawa Ieyasu Village life was a well-regulated concentration camp.

  7. “Except when sleeping farmers are to devote all their time to farm work, and neither they nor their wives and children are to drink sake or tea.” 1649 Keian Proclamation

  8. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

  9. 1624 Spanish Expelled from Japan

  10. British EIC 1613 – 1623 in Hirado

  11. Sakoku Edicts 1633-1639 (to 1853) Still illegal to leave Japan in 1868

  12. China market • Dutch pessimism • No resources • Too far north

  13. “If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold.”

  14. July 1853 Matthew Perry

  15. Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Meiji Miracle

  16. Meiji Japan (1868-1912) • 1868 Japan comes out of feudalism and isolation • 1895 defeat China • 1905 defeat Russia • 1919 One of the top five world powers at Versailles Meiji Miracle

More Related