HIST 87 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Motoori Norinaga, Military Science, Yoshida Shōin
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Think about paper 2 thesis for this week"s section. Note: tokugawa seclusion is not total isolation, they were just not willing to integrate with the westerners (the word itself is misleading) Revere the emperor, expel the barbarian (yoshida shoin) The end of the bakufu era (tokugawa shogunate) Emperor is donning a prussian warfare suit. The tokugawa acquired most of their outside information from the dutch in exchange for friendly trading. The dutch ended up being the only ones allowed to directly trade with the tokugawa. Even so, they only went through nagasaki (very small port) As a result, the tokugawa created schools for dutch medicine, technology, language, etc. Japan did not directly trade with china (because china didn"t want them to), so the. It"s not the idea of the foreigners that make japan angry, rather their actions. Hizen = power in controlling port of nagasaki. Chochu = controls the foreign ships coming through the port.
