5.2 Part 1

Question 1

What happened that caused some government officials to be released from their obligations to the emperor?

Answer 1

The court became to big to manage

Question 2

What were the Taira and the Minamoto?

Answer 2

Important and powerful Japanese clans that supported factions at the emperors court

Question 3

Once the newly powerful clans started to war amongst themselves, why did the emperor fall to suppress the violence?

Answer 3

His role had become little more than ceremonial and had no real power to stop anything.

Question 4

In what way did the emperor provide legitimacy to Shogun, Minamoto no Yoritomo

Answer 4

The deal struck between the two meant that Minamoto on Yoritomo could claim that he spoke for the emperor

Question 5

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 country?

Answer 5

700 years

Question 6

Where did Minamoto no Yoritomo establish his ‘tent government’?

Answer 6

Kamakura

Question 7

How did Minamoto no Yoritomo strengthen Japan’s feudal system

Answer 7

He rewarded his supporters with land whom in turn rewarded their warriors with land on return for support

Question 8

Which Mongol leader did the Japanes clans have to unite against to fight

Answer 8

Kubai Khan

Question 9

How did the Japanese emperor wish to respond to the Mongols request for Japanese surrender?

Answer 9

He wanted to surrender

Question 10

Why did the emperors reaction to the Mongol request to surrender did not make any difference to how the Japanese responded

Answer 10

The emperor had only symbolic power

Question 11

Whose decision was it ultimately to refuse the surrender and engage the Mongols

Answer 11

Tokimune of the Kamakura shogunate

Question 12

Why were the Mongols forced to retreat from their first Japanese invasion in 1974

Answer 12

A huge storm

Question 13

How many mongol troops were sent on the second invasion of Japan

Answer 13

140,000

Question 14

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?

Answer 14

Kamikaze

Question 15

After seventy odd years of civil war that followed the Mongo invasions, who emerged as the ultimate victor and received the title of shogun from the emperor in 1603

Answer 15

Tokugawa leyasu

Question 16

Until what year did a member of the Tokugawa family will the role of a shogun

Answer 16

1868

Question 17

How did the Japanese victory spread Zen Buddhism?

Answer 17

Rumours of a divine intervention suggested that the Japanes had backed the right religious horse.

Question 18

What economic system became stronger under the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Answer 18

Feudalism

Question 19

From 1603, who reserved the right to approve all court appointments in Japan?

Answer 19

The shogun