HISTORY 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Edo Period, Meiji Restoration, Kabuki
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SeungJoon SUNG
East Asian Cultures (Chin)
TuTh 12:30-1:45pm
#19 Reading & Class Notes for Dec 4
Tokugawa Era
1600-1867
aka Edo Era
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Unified Japan and had undisputable control
Isolated Japan (culture flourished)
Employed hostage system (greater daimyo’s families had to live in Edo)
Arts (haiku, tanka, kabuki (elaborate play), geisha, Confucian samurai code)
Opening to the West
1853: Commodore Perry’s trade offer rejected
1854: Perry returns with powerful cannons, warships, etc.
JP accepts trade (US had superior arms, JP saw what happened to China in 1842 treaties)
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa
Protect shipwrecked US sailors
Coal stations open for US use
Ports open for trade
These terms are different from the terms of treaties with China
(JP was for protection… so needed to supply JP with arms)
1858 Commercial Treaty
Brought arms to Japan
Japan’s “cultural borrowing” allowed for industrialization
Domestic Schism & Downfall
1854 trade opening split the nation based on trade question
Some daimyos were against trade (letting barbarians in) and backed emperor (against shogun)
Two greater daimyos – Choshu and Satsuma – put aside their differences
Common enemy in Tokugawa 1868: Meiji Restoration
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Document Summary
#19 reading & class notes for dec 4. Employed hostage system (greater daimyo"s families had to live in edo) Arts (haiku, tanka, kabuki (elaborate play), geisha, confucian samurai code) 1854: perry returns with powerful cannons, warships, etc. Jp accepts trade (us had superior arms, jp saw what happened to china in 1842 treaties) These terms are different from the terms of treaties with china (jp was for protection so needed to supply jp with arms) 1854 trade opening split the nation based on trade question. Some daimyos were against trade (letting barbarians in) and backed emperor (against shogun) Two greater daimyos choshu and satsuma put aside their differences. Common enemy in tokugawa 1868: meiji restoration. Emperor seat moves to edo renamed tokyo. 1889: first western constitution in asia (based on ger constitution) Emperor can dissolve the diet (chn: emperor republic) (jpn: shogun emperor) Chinese and japanese ports were opened for trade with the west in the mid 1800s.
