5.2 Flashcards
What happened that caused some government officials to be released from their obligations to the emperor?
The court became too big to manage.
What were the Taira and the Minamoto?
Important Japanese clans
Once the newly powerful clans started to war amongst themselves, why did the emperor fail to supress the violence?
His role had become little more than ceremonial and had no real power to stop anything.
In what way did the emperor provide legitimacy to Shogun, Minamoto no Yorimoto?
The deal struck between the two meant that Minamoto no Yorimoto could claim that he spoke for the emperor.
For about how many years did shoguns from various clans rule Japan with the emperor remaining in isolation while retaining his symbolic position as head of the country?
700 years
Where did Minamoto no Yorimoto establish his “tent government”?
Kamakura
Which Mongol leader did the Japanese clans have to unite against to fight?
Kublai Kahn
How did the Japanese emperor wish to respond to the Mongols’ request for Japanese surrender?
He wanted to surrender
Why did the emperor’s reaction to the Mongol request to surrender not make any difference to how the Japanese responded?
His power was ceremonial power.
Whose decision was it ultimately to refuse the surrender and engage the Mongols?
Tokimune of the Kamakura shogun
Why were the Mongols forced to retreat from their first Japanese invasion in 1274?
A huge storm
How many Mongol troops were sent on the second invasion of Japan?
140,000
When the second Mongol fleet arrived at Hakata Bay, overpowering the Japanese forces, what did the Japanese call the typhoon that destroyed it, ultimately stopping the Mongol invasion for the second time?_
Kamikaze
After the seventy-odd years of civil war that followed the Mongol invasions, who emerged as the ultimate victor and recieved the title of shogun from the emperor in 1603?_
Tokugawa Leyasu
How did the Japanese victory over the Mongols spread Zen Buddhism?
Rumours of divine intervention backed the evidence that Japan had sided with the correct religion.
