Tokugawa Period 12Japan
Origins of Tokugawa Oda Nobunaga Hideyoshi Toyotomi Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa and its control system Tokugawa Period (also called Tokugawa Shogunate): 1568 – 1868 AD Tokugawa System: Daimyo and their Han (Domain) Shimpan: Family Shimpan: Family Fudai: Household Fudai: Household Tozama: Outsiders Tozama: Outsiders
Tokugawa and it’s control system Daimyo and their Han (Domain) Shimpan Shimpan Fudai Fudai Tozama Tozama
Tokugawa and it’s control system Alternate residence Hostage system Conscription public works Domain rearrangement.
Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms Caste system: Samurai Artisans Farmers Merchants Burakumin aka: Eta aka: Eta
Tokugawa’s Control Mechanisms Fixed Residences and Fixed occupations International Restrictions: Christianity in Japan? Christianity in Japan? Tokugawa Success: 200 years of general peace Samurai culture and bushido dominant Kenno Code: Bushido as legal code + proscription on corruption or non-sanctioned violence
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms Urban society Art Art Literature Literature Entertainment Entertainment Chushingura – 47 Ronin
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms National Transportation network Unified Language Unified Culture Money Economy Farmer’s wealth
Unintended outcomes of Tokugawa Control Mechanisms Daimyo impoverished Wealthy Merchants Daimyo and Samurai Relationship changes Samurai as Bureaucrats Warriors without war Warriors without war Decay and corruption at the center
Tokugawa Meets the West Commodore Perry: 1853 Dutch Learning China’s unequal treaties 1840s: Japan made uneasy
Tokugawa Meets the West Shogun’s response Kanagawa Treaty: 1854 Harris Treaty: 1858 Open ports Open ports Extraterritoriality Extraterritoriality Tariffs Tariffs
Tokugawa Meets the West Young Samurai Reaction Choshu incident: 1863 Domestic Response Domestic Response Foreign Response Foreign Response
Tokugawa Meets the West Choshu’s new resolution Satsuma and Choshu: Who, and why them?