The Tokugawa Shoguns (Tokugawa-ke godaiki). Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2020).
"The third shôgun, Tokugawa Iemitsu,... enforced isolation from much of the rest of the world in the seventeenth century, believing that influences from abroad (meaning trade, Christianity, and guns) could shift the balance that existed between the shôgun and the feudal lords. He was proven right two centuries later, when change came in the form of Perry's ships." (Asia for Educators, Columbia University, 2009)
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Students will form some understanding of Japanese history and culture. They will come to understand the implications of contact between cultures and the threat caused to non-European cultures of European imperialism.
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Bakufu 幕府, Daimyō 大名, Kuge 公家, Bushi [Samurai] 武士, Sakoku 鎖国, Shôgun 将軍, teiou / Tennō 帝王 [Emperor]
"In 1185, Japan began to be governed by warriors or samurai. Until this time the government had been bureaucratic in theory, but was actually aristocratic (i.e., people held certain positions because they were born to families entitled to hold those jobs). Even after 1185, civil government at the Emperors court continued and the law and the state were not changed, but a new samurai class came to power and increasingly became the real rulers of the country. Some form of military leadership remained the form of government in Japan until 1868, when a centralised bureaucratic government came into being with the Meiji Restoration." (Asia for Educators, Columbia University, 2009)
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