EAST 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tokugawa Shogunate, Heian Period, Dai Nihonshi
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Quizzes are given back = pay attention to last question because from now on there will be essays = support your opinion. 1868: meiji restoration = transition between tokugawa shogunate"s way of organizing the archipelago to. Mejiji nation-like organization looking at shift in thoughts = a production of new consciousness of what japan is during latter part of the tokugawa period. Reading by susan burns = read it instead of the one about woodlock prints on syllabus = good introductory reading. Chart : left hand side (edo) = period names => next column (early modern, medieval, ancient) => next column = organizations (centralized feudalism, etc) => last column = how state power is structured. Edo period is called the early modern period = debatable in btw pre-modern and moder. Map of war of states period right before tokugawa period = pretty fragmented (1864-1873 on map) Not clear right before the bow of sekigahara.