EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sakoku, Generalissimo, Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Most often called komu (redhead) or nanban. First encounter with foreigners: 3 portuguese ships shipwrecked in 1543 (?) It brought predecessors of rifles, which feudal lords, like nobunaga, used to their advantage. 1543 portuguese seeking trade accompanied by jesuits looking to convert the japanese. Mid-1580s 300 000 converted japanese; usually the poor and few daimyos. Daimyos convert because they would gain access to trade goods brought by the foreign traders . Oda nobunaga used guns from foreigners while hideyoshi was worried about the presence of foreigners. As christians, they only believe in one lord a lord that is higher than any lord (daimyo) Hideyoshi saw it as a threat to his authority, a possible trigger for instability. Hideyoshi promulgated edicts to resolve issues of the jesuits. Expelled the jesuits, while the traders remain. Soon after, the spaniards came accompanied by a new brand of missionary, the franciscans, in addition to new trade goods.
