HUMA 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Osaka Castle, Low Culture
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O neo- confucian system: patterned after zhu xi ghushigaku: but, classes were frozen and samurai replaced the chinese scholars-officials , also, samurai, artisans and merchants forced to live in urban centers: only. Four classes in tokugawa japan: samurai, peasants, artisans, merchants peasants lived in rural areas. ** note: artisans + merchants = ch nin *: urban life, urbanization in the 18th century. Japan: apprx 15: samurai castle towns (jokomachi) Most common type of urban center apprx half of population was samurai seats of admin of local daimyo small service towns around castle towns most transformed into economic centers by 1800. Aristocratic seat of imperial gov"t population: pre-tokugawa 200,000, tokugawa 350,000- 400,000. Pre- tokugawa political, economic, cultural center of japan. Tokugawa industrial, cultural, religious information center old money. Osaka markets set the price of rice and 1590: became headquarters of tokugawa political capital after 1630: greatest metropolis in japan/world. Edo as a center for culture: high culture.