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EAST255/HIST296

EAST255/HIST296. 1st class: Legacies from the pre-modern era. Relative size of contemporary Japan. Geographic context. Historical overview. Kofun era Tumuli “Horse-rider” theories Aristocratic Society 6th c. f. Yamato state formation--adoption of Chinese culture

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EAST255/HIST296

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  1. EAST255/HIST296 1st class: Legacies from the pre-modern era

  2. Relative size of contemporary Japan

  3. Geographic context

  4. Historical overview • Kofun era • Tumuli • “Horse-rider” theories • Aristocratic Society 6th c. f. • Yamato state formation--adoption of Chinese culture • Heijo (Nara), Heian (Kyoto) • Warrior Society 12th c. f. • Kamakura, Ashikaga, Tokugawa (Edo) • Modern Society (“emperor system”) mid-19th c. ff • Meiji state formation--adoption of European-American culture

  5. Pre-Edo fort(16th c. Sengoku period)

  6. Tokugawa era, 1600-1868 "Japan at the End of the Edo Period," Felix Beato (Yokohama Archives of History Collection)

  7. Geographic and Historical context (1808) Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin

  8. Commodore Matthew Perry and the “Black Ships” 1853, 1854

  9. Trade with the “West”

  10. Samurai and attendant

  11. Japan in 1855 • Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin

  12. Japan in 1911 (plus Korea) • Perry-Castaneda map collection, UT Austin

  13. Emperor and Empress Meiji

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