EAST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tokugawa Shogunate, Cloistered Rule, Kamakura Period
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A long time after heian period there was the meiji period but why was neo-confucianism important during the 1600s and why was it important during 1630s to expel christianity and foreigners and limit all outside contact to trade. Slide from nikolas : different times with different historical names. First constitution = ritsuryo = historical law system based on the philosopheis of. Insei, or cloistered emperor system wich resulted in the creation of the in no cho. Some clans + bushidan and monastic complexes allied against emperor: gempei war broke out between the minamoto and the heike clans = legitimate claims for the throne = effectively ended the centralized rule of the court. In the nambokucho period = the court splits between south and north split among similar lines of the gempei war == 2 different courts with 2 different imperial lines.