Early Modern History (kinsei-shi 近世史)

Question 1

1542

Answer 1

Arrival of the Portuguese (1st Europeans arrive in Japan); traders, followed by Jesuit priests; introduction of firearms to Japan.

Question 2

1568

Answer 2

Oda Nobunaga enters Kyōto; de facto end of Muromachi bakufu.

Question 3

1575

Answer 3

Battel of Agashino; Oda Nobunaga and allies defeat the army of Takeda Shingen by massive use of firearms. Nobunaga dominates most of western and central Japan.

Question 4

1582

Answer 4

Oda Nobunaga killed by one of his own generals (Honnōji incident).

Question 5

1590

Answer 5

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan.

Question 6

1592/1597

Answer 6

First and second Japanese invasion of Korea.

Question 7

1600

Answer 7

battle of Sekigahara. Eastern coalition of daimyō under Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats western coalition of daimyō. Tokugawa establishes their domination over the realm. Tokugawa bakufu (Tokugawa warrior government; seat of power: Edo=Tokyō of today, therefore also often: ‘Edo bakufu”)

Question 8

Sengoku (‘Warring states’) period and unification period.

Answer 8

ca. 1467-1600