Edo period

Question 1

date Edo period

Answer 1

1600-1868

Question 2

1600

Answer 2

Battle of Sekigahara

Question 3

1603

Answer 3

Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shōgun (Edo bakufu = Tokugawa bakufu founded)

Question 4

1837

Answer 4

Uprising by Ōshio Heihachirō in Ōsaka.

Question 5

1867/1868

Answer 5

Meiji Restoration ( end of Edo period)

Question 6

Initial phase

Answer 6

Tokugawa system laid the groundwork of the beginning of a new era, marked initially by continued population increase, economic prosperity, and further social specialization.

Question 7

Baku-han taisei (baku-han-System)

Answer 7

Military government, the bakufu (that’s the Baku in Baku-han) in its center, relative autonomy to the 250+/- feudal domains, the han.

Question 8

sankin kōtai system

Answer 8

Deliberate policy by the Tokugawa bakufu to constrain the finances and military potential of the 250+/- feudal lords (daimyō), i.e. via the sankin kōtai system (‘system of alternating attendance’) the feudal lords were obliged to stay one year out of 2 in Edo, resulting in a constant exchange of ideas, cultural trends, etc. (metaphor of a ‘pumping hart’ - an important condition of a proto-nation state with a certain degree of cultural uniformity and a precondition to the rapid modernization after the Edo period)