History 1601E Lecture : History Notes Term 2.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Cary Takagaki

Document Summary

Why was the tokugawa sh gunate so successful in maintaining peace and control over japan whereas the. Controlling daimy (feudal warlords lords) sankin k tai alternate attendance ; system whereby daimy were obliged to spend every other year living in attendence in the capital of edo (now tokyo) sakoku : isolation policy. National isolation policy adopted by the tokugawa sh gunate through a series of edicts issued from 1633-1639. 4 class division of tokugawa society: shi-n -k -sh samurai farmers artisans collectively called townsmen (ch nin ) merchants _______________________ outcastes (burakumin ) Yamaga sok : (1622-1685) confucian scholar bushid : the way of the warrior . Infanticide in the tokugawa period does not appear to have been primarily a response to poverty (i. e. , practiced by large landholders as well as small; practiced in good as well as bad growing years)