JAPAN Flashcards
The ____ or Tokugawa period is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan
Edo Period
A form of military rule headed by the shogun
Tokugawa Shogunate
This period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, increased environmental protection, and popular enjoyment of the arts.
Tokugawa Period
The founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
Tokugawa Leyasu
As shogun, ____ achieve hegemony over the entire country by balancing the power of potentially hostile domains with strategically placed allies and collateral houses.
Leyasu
Leyasu’s successor required the domainal lords, or ____, to maintain households in the Tokugawa administrative capital of Edo (modern Tokyo) and reside there for several months every other year.
Daimyo
The short ______ period was a prelude to the long Tokugawa which followed and in many respects it is reasonable to consider the two together.
Momoyama
The year Leyasu Died
1616
After the battle of ______ in 1600, the Tokugawa plans became clear.
Sekigahara
An indispensable adjunct of the Tokugawa plan was to…
destroy any possible internal threat, whether from the throne, feudal barons, peasants, artisans or traders.
In 1601 the Tokugawa began to mine ___ & ___ which further filled their treasury,
Gold and Silver coins
Was a figurehead for the powerful shogun
Emperor
A powerful military leader,___ ruled in the emperor’s name
Shogun
They were powerful lords who often led armies of samurai. _____ warriors served the shogun and daimyo.
Daimyo and Samurai
Most Japanese were poor who had no power
Peasants
At the beginning of the period the wind seemed set fair for a rapid expansion of international trade, but the Tokugawa rulers soon began to fear _____
The influence of foreign missionaries.
They were well informed about the activities of the missionaries in China and the Philippines and, like the Chinese emperors of the eighteenth century, they found the quarrels between ____ & _____ distasteful
Jesuits and Franciscans
Suspicious of foreign intervention and colonialism, the Tokugawa regime acted to exclude missionaries and eventually issued a complete ban on _____ in Japan.
Christianity
After the Shogunate’s brutal repression of a Christian rebellion on the _____ in 1637-1638, Christianity was forced underground.
Shimbara Peninsula
Dominant faith of the Tokugawa period
Confucianism
In its efforts to close Japan off from damaging foreign influence, the _____ also prohibited trade with Western nations and prevented Japanese merchants from trading abroad
Tokugawa shogunate
The shogun shared power and authority with the local daimyo in a system known as?
Bakuhan
The fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate was a result of many events such as _____ that caused the end of the Tokugawa rule.
wars, rebellion, and treaties
Restricted trade with _____ & _____ merchants was permitted in Nagasaki
Chinese & dutch
A key part of the Edo period revival of indigenous Japanese artistic interests described by the term yamato-e.
Rinpa School
These were decorated by Rinpa artists with vibrant colors applied in a highly decorative and patterned manner
Paintings, textiles, ceramics, and lacquerwares
A Japanese painter and designer of the Rinpa school.
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Was a Japanese craftsman,
potter, lacquerer, and calligrapher, whose work is
generally considered to have inspired the
founding of the Ripa school of painting.
Hon’ami Kōetsu
Upper-class Kyoto merchants, a group known as?
machishu
Rinpa artists worked in various formats, notably
Screens
fans
hanging scrolls
woodblock printed
books
lacquerware
ceramics, and
kimono textiles.
Many Rinpa paintings were used on the
sliding doors and walls of noble homes
The stereotypical standard painting in the Ripa
style involves simple natural subjects such as
birds, plants, and flowers with the background
filled in with gold leaf.
Japan’s most admired literary classic is
Tale of
Genji
Tale of
Genji, written around 1000 by ____. It provides the readers with a view of Heian Court Culture
Murasaki Shikubu
The oldest extant examples of illustrated copies
are fragments from a deluxe set of
Early 12th century handscrolls
A Japanese syllabry
Katakana
The word katakana means
fragmentary kana
a style of woodblock prints called _____
became a major art form.
ukiyo-e
Produced the first polychrome
(multicolor) print in 1764
Suzuki Harunou
A series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849)
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Created during the 1820s by
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
A creator of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints
Hiroshige
Western Artists that were inspired by the art of Hiroshige
Edgar Degas & Vincent Van Gogh
Style of painting that emerged during the
same period.
Bunjinga
