2.  What caused Japan to get a new
feudalism?
 why does Japan have a close country
policy ?

3.  Daimyo – Powerful land holding samurai
 Tokugawa shogunate – Rule of a
shogun. Unified Japan
 Haiku – 5-7-5-syllable, 3-line verse poetry
 Kabuki – A theater
 Seppuku – A ritual suicide of a samurai
 Shogun – supreme military commander

4.  Oda Nobunaga – One of a number of
brutal and ambitious Daimyo. He seized
Kyoto and crushed his rivals
 Toyotomi Hideyoshi – Noubounag’s best
general and wanted to get rid of
daimyo that were hostile, he controlled
most of the country

5.  Tokugawa Ieyasu – He tamed the
daimyo and was the shogun. He also
defeated his rivals at Sekigahara, he
banned Christianity
 Francis Xavier – Led the first Christian
mission to Japan and he was a Jesuit

6.  Japan collapsed
 Sengoku “warring states” period arrived
 Daimyo became lords, they were
powerful samurai who seized old feudal
states and offered protection for loyalty
 Daimyo wanted to control the country

8.  Two and a half years of prosperity
 Confucian values influenced society
 Samurai attended noh dramas
 People read haikus’ and fiction stories
about self made merchants and
hardships
 Women worked and obeyed their
husbands

9.  Peasants made up 4/5 of the
populations
 Shifted to urban society

10.  Portuguese brought ships, merchants
and technology
 Fire arms changed Japanese warriors
 Christian missionaries arrived
 Ieyasu banned Christianity and focused
on making his country Christian free

11.  Japan is very isolated
 They cannot have foreign trade or leave
the country
 Japan self-sufficient

12.  Japan collapsed and gained a new
feudalism. The emperor was the at the
top of the system but the actual ruler
was the shogun. Below them were the
daimyo, the samurai warriors. After that
the peasants and artisans followed.
Traditional culture still boomed.
Portuguese influenced new ideas in
Japan and Japan was isolated.