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Flashcards by Alicia Davie, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alicia Davie
almost 10 years ago
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| What do the Samurai view as very important? | The Samurai view the way that they die and their attitude towards death very important. The Samurai believes that they should always go into a fight prepared to die in combat. |
| What values did the code of Bushido uphold? | The code of Bushido means that a samurai must live by the code of honour, respect and will be willing to die for his country and his religion. |
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Explain the social structure of
Japanese society?
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At the top was the Emperor who was just a figurehead of society and a symbol of religion. He has no real political power. Next were the Shogun who was the military leader and had the most power over society. Then came the Daimyo who were the noble lords. Then were the Samurai who were paid soldiers. The samurai lived by the code of Bushido and were probably the social class that honoured their religion and country the most. Below the Samurai were the Ronin, and they were the masterless Samurai. Then came the peasants who were farmers and fishermen and were 90% of the population. |
| What is a palanquin? | A box that was carried on poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers. It was used to carry people of high importance. |
| What was the most important position in the feudal system and why? | The shogun held the most important position in the feudal system because the Emperor gave him the power. Also he was the military leader and had the most political power. |
| What was the role of the Samurai? | The Samurai were paid warriors that carried 2 swords, one short and one long, and lived by the code of Bushido. Their role was to protect their country, their religion and their shogun. |
| Why did the role of the Samurai decline? | When trade opened up to the Western countries, the Westerners were bringing lots of new technology into Japan and the Westerners started to fight the Japanese when they tried to kick them out of the country. The traditional Japanese Samurai had no way of fighting the Westerners and being successful because their tradition did not allow for them to use guns. Therefore, they couldn't get close enough to the enemies to fight them with their swords and they couldn't even shoot with their crossbows from close enough, to get them. Because of this, the Samurai were killed very quickly and easily by the Westerners. |
| How did the Japanese feel about foreigners during the Tokygawa Shogunate and why? | The Japanese had a no non-Japanese policy because they'd had attempted attacks from the Mongolians in the past and they did not want outsiders to come in and change their culture and the way that they lived. They believed that the foreigners wanted to take over their country. |
| How did the Shoguns get power and how did they keep it? | The Emperor Kammu gave the Shoguns their power which they maintained through military strength. |
| RELIGION | Religion was a huge part of Japanese society, they had shrines, temples and statues everywhere to honour their religion and Buddha. |
| Why would someone be carried in a palanquin? | Someone would be carried in a palanquin if they were of high importance and needed to get somewhere safely and in style. |
| How did Japan feel about influences from outside Japan? | Japan felt the need to block off the people from the Japanese Mainland. They thought that the traders were bringing in too much new technology and therefore sent them to Dejima Island so that they could only trade with the Japanese people once a year and so that the Japanese people were not getting too many new weapons and too much new European technology to fight with. |
| Why was Dejima Island created? | Dejima Island was created to keep traders out of Japan. The tradespeople had to stay on Dejima Island if they wanted to trade with Japan and the people of Dejima Island were only allowed to travel over to Japan to trade once a year and they usually brought gifts to the Japanese people like guns and new European technology. Dejima Island was created so that the Japanese people were not getting too much European technology and too many new weapons to fight with. |
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Explain what is happening in this photo-
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The photo shows the arrival of Commodore Mathew Perry and the Japanese ships watching it enter the harbour. |
| What sequence of events followed leading up to the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate? | Mathew Perry came and opened up trade with the west and the Japanese signed the Convention of Kanugawa. The treaty opened up the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade and guaranteed the safety of shipwrecked US sailors but did not allow westerners to take up a permanent residence in these places. The treaty did allow for the Americans to maintain a permanent consul in Shimoda though. This meant that the Japanese had broken their policy of having nobody from outside countries coming in to their countries. They had this no non-Japanese policy because they had had attempted attacks from the Mongolians in the past and they did not want outsiders to come in and change their culture and the way that they lived. |
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What does this photo show us about the decline of the Samurai?
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The photo shows that gunpowder and firearms were much more powerful than the Samurai weapons; swords and crossbows. And the traditional Japanese samurai had no way of fighting the westerners and therefore were killed very easily and quickly by the westerners, while in combat. They were killed easily because they couldn’t get close enough to the westerners to fight them with their swords and even with their crossbows they couldn’t get close enough to shoot the enemies. The samurai were killed like this because their tradition did not allow for them to use guns. Therefore they could not fight the westerners with guns and were always killed quickly and easily in combat. |
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