Tokugawa Shogunate

1. Oda Nobunaga
2. Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Annotations:

• (noble)

1. Shogun

   Annotations:

   • (warrior/knight)
   1. Appointed by emperor
      1. why?
         1. considered to be divine

            Annotations:

            • CONTINUITY does not lose divine status until after World War II
            1. Shintoism
            2. legitamacy

               Annotations:

               • decisions made in the name of the emperor
   2. Portuguese
      1. Bring Jesuit missonairies
         1. If christianity spreads than

            Annotations:

            • only 1 god
            1. ONLY 1 GOD
               1. Emperor not a god

                  Annotations:

                  • No longer legitimacy
            2. Christians in Japan
               1. Covert
               2. or die

1. Daimyos
   1. Samurai
      1. Lower classes
         1. Merchants
            1. Money
               1. but, no power
         2. Artisans
         3. Peasants
            1. 80%
            2. Grow rice
               1. taxed for 40% - 60%
2. Monoply
   1. silk (China)
   2. land
   3. mines
      1. gold
      2. silver
3. Trades for guns
   1. creates dependency on Portuguese
      1. so studies
         1. and make own better ones

1. currency for trade
2. so create new coins that mimic
   1. devalue currency
      1. intentional
         1. raise taxes
         2. grow more rice
            1. more land
               1. cut down more trees
            2. natural disasters
               1. less rice
                  1. supply chain problem
         3. cut spending
            1. pay people less
      2. creates inflation
      3. most would trade
         1. but, isolated

1. rice

1. paid rice
   1. merchants

      Annotations:

      • benefiting, while all others are suffering
      1. get loans from Daimyos
      2. towns/villages
      3. give gold and silver

1. Treaty of Kanagawa
   1. opens up trade
      1. mad
         1. internal strife
            1. conservatives
            2. liberals
               1. Meiji Restoration
                  1. Westernization
                  2. Modernization