JAPAN

Question 1

The ____ or Tokugawa period is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan

Answer 1

Edo Period

Question 2

A form of military rule headed by the shogun

Answer 2

Tokugawa Shogunate

Question 3

This period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, increased environmental protection, and popular enjoyment of the arts.

Answer 3

Tokugawa Period

Question 4

The founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan

Answer 4

Tokugawa Leyasu

Question 5

As shogun, ____ achieve hegemony over the entire country by balancing the power of potentially hostile domains with strategically placed allies and collateral houses.

Answer 5

Leyasu

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Daimyo

Question 7

The short ______ period was a prelude to the long Tokugawa which followed and in many respects it is reasonable to consider the two together.

Answer 7

Momoyama

Question 8

The year Leyasu Died

Answer 8

1616

Question 9

After the battle of ______ in 1600, the Tokugawa plans became clear.

Answer 9

Sekigahara

Question 10

An indispensable adjunct of the Tokugawa plan was to…

Answer 10

destroy any possible internal threat, whether from the throne, feudal barons, peasants, artisans or traders.

Question 11

In 1601 the Tokugawa began to mine ___ & ___ which further filled their treasury,

Answer 11

Gold and Silver coins

Question 12

Was a figurehead for the powerful shogun

Answer 12

Emperor

Question 13

A powerful military leader,___ ruled in the emperor’s name

Answer 13

Shogun

Question 14

They were powerful lords who often led armies of samurai. _____ warriors served the shogun and daimyo.

Answer 14

Daimyo and Samurai

Question 15

Most Japanese were poor who had no power

Answer 15

Peasants

Question 16

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 _____

Answer 16

The influence of foreign missionaries.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Jesuits and Franciscans

Question 18

Suspicious of foreign intervention and colonialism, the Tokugawa regime acted to exclude missionaries and eventually issued a complete ban on _____ in Japan.

Answer 18

Christianity

Question 19

After the Shogunate’s brutal repression of a Christian rebellion on the _____ in 1637-1638, Christianity was forced underground.

Answer 19

Shimbara Peninsula

Question 20

Dominant faith of the Tokugawa period

Answer 20

Confucianism

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Tokugawa shogunate

Question 22

The shogun shared power and authority with the local daimyo in a system known as?

Answer 22

Bakuhan

Question 23

The fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate was a result of many events such as _____ that caused the end of the Tokugawa rule.

Answer 23

wars, rebellion, and treaties

Question 24

Restricted trade with _____ & _____ merchants was permitted in Nagasaki

Answer 24

Chinese & dutch

Question 25

A key part of the Edo period revival of indigenous Japanese artistic interests described by the term yamato-e.

Answer 25

Rinpa School

Question 26

These were decorated by Rinpa artists with vibrant colors applied in a highly decorative and patterned manner

Answer 26

Paintings, textiles, ceramics, and lacquerwares

Question 27

A Japanese painter and designer of the Rinpa school.

Answer 27

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Question 28

Was a Japanese craftsman, potter, lacquerer, and calligrapher, whose work is generally considered to have inspired the founding of the Ripa school of painting.

Answer 28

Hon'ami Kōetsu

Question 29

Upper-class Kyoto merchants, a group known as?

Answer 29

machishu

Question 30

Rinpa artists worked in various formats, notably

Answer 30

Screens fans hanging scrolls woodblock printed books lacquerware ceramics, and kimono textiles.

Question 31

Many Rinpa paintings were used on the

Answer 31

sliding doors and walls of noble homes

Question 32

The stereotypical standard painting in the Ripa style involves simple natural subjects such as

Answer 32

birds, plants, and flowers with the background filled in with gold leaf.

Question 33

Japan's most admired literary classic is

Answer 33

Tale of Genji

Question 34

Tale of Genji, written around 1000 by ____. It provides the readers with a view of Heian Court Culture

Answer 34

Murasaki Shikubu

Question 35

The oldest extant examples of illustrated copies are fragments from a deluxe set of

Answer 35

Early 12th century handscrolls

Question 36

A Japanese syllabry

Answer 36

Katakana

Question 37

The word katakana means

Answer 37

fragmentary kana

Question 38

a style of woodblock prints called _____ became a major art form.

Answer 38

ukiyo-e

Question 39

Produced the first polychrome (multicolor) print in 1764

Answer 39

Suzuki Harunou

Question 40

A series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849)

Answer 40

Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Question 41

Created during the 1820s by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).

Answer 41

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Question 42

A creator of romantic and somewhat sentimental landscape prints

Answer 42

Hiroshige

Question 43

Western Artists that were inspired by the art of Hiroshige

Answer 43

Edgar Degas & Vincent Van Gogh

Question 44

Style of painting that emerged during the same period.

Answer 44

Bunjinga