To begin with the famous Samurai I’m researching is a man by the name of Tokugawa Leyasu. Tokugawa Leyasu was a famous and important samurai warrior due to the fact that he stands tall as possibly the most famous samurai of all time, and the only one of the three great unifiers of Japan (other 2 were Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi) to be crowned shogun.…
One similarity between Tokugawa and Louis XIV is decreasing power of Nobles. What Louis XIV did to decrease the power of the nobles is by breaking down their castles. The reason he broke down the castles was because he didn’t want the nobility to rebel against him. This relates to Tokugawa because he also destroyed the castles of daimyos (The nobles of Japan). Tokugawa had many restrictions for the daimyos. The reason he had restrained them from their property is so they don’t rebel against the shogun, which is Tokugawa. He also restricted who the daimyos should marry and what they should wear. Both Tokugawa and Louis XIV are very similar in decreasing the power of the nobles. They both had the nobles/daimyos live with the king/shogun, and…
6. How did the political structure of the Tokugawa Shogunate influence the economic development of…
Japan expansion evolved by unification where Japan regained their islands. Tokugawa Shogunate unified Japan by consolidating with islands near Japan’s territory. With all of Japan’s territory being under his rule, japan expanded.…
Two dominant families fought each other, and Minamoto won. Yoritomo, the leader, declared himself shogun and set up a military government in Kamakura. They basically controlled japan, because they appointed vassals as regional governors and stewards who pledged their loyalty. Then conflict raged between vassal warlords, shoguns, and the vassals loyal to him. By 1300 Ashikaga shogun controlled ¼ japan, the sumarai and vassals were jelouse, and went to gain own domain to create new types of daimyo. They set up mini independent kingdoms and improved land. By the 1500s all of their power weakend by fighting and the tokugawa took about 200 under control. The daimyos now served as vassals for shogun and pledged loyalty and military services in return.…
Japan was disunified Governed by military shoguns Feudal wars Independent states ruled by landed aristocracy (daiymo) Who unified Japan in 1603? Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Shogunate ruled from 1603-1868.…
In 1600, the first English and Dutch had arrived in Japan; they were Protestants that were willing to trade without engaging in religious activities. In 1609, he began to distance Europe from Japan, with the exception of the Dutch. Why the Dutch? Because he had made William Adams (English protestant, employed by Dutch), his most trusted advisors. Tokugawa had decided to further the Shogunate’s “evolving relations” with Spain and Roman Catholic Church. His turned this decision around when Tokugawa saw the influences of Christianity were becoming a problem for him, and around 1614 after the Protestant reformation, he signed the Christian Expulsion Edict. This ended all of Japan’s foreign affairs, and banned all of Christianity, and the right to practice it. Takugawa enforced this strictly, and as absolute ruler, it had to be followed. In result, many Japanese Christians fled from…
This caused the shogunate to place foreigners under tighter restrictions. Ultimately, they forced them all to leave and barred all relations with the outside world except for severely restricted Dutch and Chinese merchants. This was extremely important because Japan’s isolation enabled them to progress as a country and become informed on what is new around the world. It also did not allow them to create new opportunities and just made them stay…
At first, Japan was not in a good position to defeat the strong countries that surrounded it. However, after realizing that Japan itself needed a better and stronger status, Emperors in Japan started to focus on strengthening the Imperial rule. Therefore, with the influences from China and Korea, Emperors learned ways to protect themselves better. A good defense of military affairs, strong religion belief in Shinto and Buddhism, changes in locations of capitals and people, and a systematical legal affair could be the important features that resulted in a powerful state without being frightened by external threats. These factors lead Japan to become a more successful country and had the ability of strengthening the imperial rule resulting in not being easily defeated.…
In the period between 1450 and 1750, Japan underwent many changes in its political and social structure. After a period of chaos, a powerful family rose up and took control of the nation, establishing a new Shogunate and bringing a period of peace and stability to Japan.…
Thanks to the Tokugawa Shoguns, they had a enormous influence onto the feudal system. After that japan gained power. It was revived and built into a sturdy kingdom. It was important that they increased control over the civilization and created a more tranquil and nonviolent environment. Previously japan was opposed and furious with war due to the minor control Ashikaga Shoguns had over the daimyos. The faithfulness of the daimyos was a great donating aspect to the military power of the Shoguns, therefore keeping their loyalty strong was a priority.…
During the Tokugawa Shogunate , foreign affairs and trade were monopolized by the shogunate, yielding a huge profit right into their pockets. To guard against external influences from not only China, they also worked to close off Japanese society from Westernizing influences, particularly Christianity. Isolationism was the foreign policy of Japan and trade was strictly controlled. This was an action taken by the Tokugawa shogunate because they were suspicious of foreign intervention and colonialism, and after reviewing and studying what happened to other groups that were inferior in military and technological aspects, such as the Zulu in Africa, the shogunate had decided to allow for some limited trade in Nagasaki, Kyoto, and Tokyo as to be…
After seeing the growth and development of western nations as well as China's defeat at the hands of the British in the First Opium War, Japanese political elites decided that Japan needed to separate itself from foreign trade. However, some saw further than this and thought more about modernization of the nation, which ultimately led to Japan being the superpower it is today. Therefore, in 1866, the daimyo of the two southern provinces formed an alliance to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate which was then in power. So the Satsuma and Choshu domains fought to overthrow the Shogun and instead put Emperor Komei in a position of real power as they felt that through him they would have a…
The Tokugawa, which was the last of Japan’s Shogun brought peace to the Japanese people. From 1603 to 1867, the period known as the Tokugawa or Edo period, the Shogun helped the nation flourish in their economic growth, as well as their political stability. Ieyasu was praised in his time for his achievements. He was able to achieve dominance over the entire country, and unify them by balancing the power held in in the country. Ieyasu was able to accomplish this by smartly distributing power amongst his allies and his enemies giving him power over the whole of…
To control daimyo, he initiated an extensive project of shifting daimyo about. In the process he stripped many erstwhile enemies of their lands, placed a number of his allies in strategic locations near surviving enemies, and secured for himself and his most faithful vassals direct control of much of central Japan. Then, having secured the strategic heartland, he proceeded over the next several years to make his control more sure by issuing regulations and establishing supervisory organs to constrain daimyo, imperial court nobles, and clerics, as well as his own vassals. He worked hard to restore stability and unity to Japan and encouraged foreign trade; built up the city of Edo and it became a bustling port…