Genroku Japan: The Four Faces of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi Flashcards
Ito Jinsai
-Affirmation of emotions
What are the four beginnings and what are the concerted with virtue through cultivations?
Four Beginning-Virtue commiseration-goodness shame/dislike-righteousness deference/compliance-propriety right/wrong-knowledge
What are the four ways Tsunayoshi is remembered by?
- The dog Shogun (born under the year of the dog and protector of dogs.)
- “Gay Shogun”
- Friend of Scholars
- Reassertion of Shogunal power (the centralizing shogun)
Who were the shoguns before Tsunayoshi?
- Ieyasu
- Hidetada
- Iemitsu (Otama)
- Ietsuna (important Shogun advisors Hoshina Masayuki, Sakai Tadakiyo, Sakai, Tadakatsu)
Why is Tsunayoshi known as the gay shogun?
Established early on his sexual preference toward males (though Homosexuality was well established among warriors), though he was probably bisexual.
What is the importance of Tsunayoshi’s sexuality?
Many of his attendant were appointed based upon sex. (Sex as a motivating political force/factor.) Ex. Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Kuroda Naoshige)
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
An influential advisor under Tsunayoshi
Kuroda Naoshige
An advisor that appeared to have relations with Tsunayoshi sexually
Keishōin
Tsunayoshi’s mother-daughter of a green grocer
Mother was a lady in waiting who’s own mother entered the samurai ranks by becoming a concubine. A figure Tsunayoshi relied upon until her death.
Kitamura Kigin
Japanese Haikai poet and scholar. Teacher for Basho
Sumiyoshi Gukei
1631, Kyōto, Japan—died April 25, 1705,
Japanese painter, Tsunayoshi’s official painter.
Yasui Shunkai
Calendar maker brought to Edo by Tsunayoshi
Hayashi Family
Tsunayoshi gave Hayashi family land to build a Confucian school-Confucianism no longer hidden among Buddhist priests.
1685
The year when Tsunayoshi issued the laws against the mistreatment of dogs and then later on animals (Created 4 dog pounds, 50 acres)
What were the sources of Tsunayoshi’s animal love?
- Buddhism
- Tsunayoshi born in the year of the dog
- Dogs are the time were a public policy issue
- Dogs raised to feed hawks at the time
- stray dog problem-dogs eaten by people
Echigo Dispute 1681
This incident provided Tsunayoshi the opportunity to reestablish shogunal authority after Ietsuna’s weak reign. In this dispute: a succession dispute-it was confiscated during Osaka campaigns and it was eventually assigned to Matsudaira Misunaga. Mitsunaga was in line for succession for shogun, but he ends up having his land stripped from him and placed in detention after the first year of Tsunayoshi. Eventually leading Tsunayoshi to punish Matsudaira Tsunamasa.
Hotta Masatoshi
Top goverment
Matsudaira Tsunamasa
Eldest son of Matsudaira Masakatsu. He becomes lord of Fukui however due to his cruelty he was punished and had his land confiscated.
How does age affect Ietsuna’s rule?
Tokugawa Ietsuna: 10 years of aged
- Hoshina Masayuki was an advisor, Aizu domain
- Sakai Tadakiyo-hereditary lord senior counselor, great councilor
- Sakai Tadakatsu-fought at Sekigahara, senior councilor, great councilor
How did age affect Tsunayoshi’s rule?
He became shogun at 34 years of age
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, vassal, chamberlain, senior councilor
How did age affect Tokugawa Ienobu?
Became shogun at 46 years of age
- Arai Hakuseki Confucian scholar
- Manabe Akifusa
How would the patterns of shogunal succession be classified?
father-son (strong) -Ieyasu-Hidetada -Hidetada-Iemitsu -Ienobu-Ietsugu brother-brother (Weak) -Iemitsu-Ietsuna -Ietsuna-Tsunayoshi uncle-nephew (Strong)-listen to personal advisors -Tsunayoshi-Ienobu Collateral House Ietsugu-Yoshimune
