ASIA 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Woodblock Printing, Shukuba, Making Money
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More commonly used to refer to reign of 5th tokugawa shogun tokugawa. Influenced by a shinbone priest; the reason why he is unable to produce an heir is because he was unkind to animals in his past life. The rise of the ch nin or urban townsman (non-samurai commoner) Japanese society divides so sharply in urban and non-urban environments samurai who live in cities have more in common with other urban lords than with congressmen. Popular culture as culture that pays for itself high culture and low culture. Before tokugawa, high culture was affiliated to religious monasteries; other culture was low culture. Samurai began to sell their education of polite arts. Five requisites for a self-sustaining popular culture: 1) urbanization. Cities concentrate consumers of popular culture; useful for selling culture. 10% of japan"s population in 1700 lived in communities with 10,000+ populations. This urban/semi-urban population grows tenfold in japan in 100 years.
