Period 4 Key Terms Flashcards
Oda Nobunga
Tokugawa shogunate unifier, WARRIOR, capital=kyoto, guerilla warfare/portugese gunpowder, built roads, sumitori (sumo wrestling)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
“if cuckoo doesn’t sing, LETS MAKE IT!” rags-to-riches, controlled ppl tht threatened him (daimyos), failed conquering korea, accepted Christian missionaries/merchants
Tokugawa Ieyasu
“eats national rice cake” daimyos>Edo (alternate attendance), adopted chinese society of merit/hard work (samurai//chinese bureaucrats) commercial revolution
Akechi Mitsuhide
General under Oda Nobunga, betrays him
Sekigahara
battle where Ieyasu defeats the last shogunate to control japan
Tokugawa Shogunate
more unified, last japanese shogunate b/w appx 1600-1880
Daimyos
Wealthy landowner lords of peasants who grew poor after unification
Samurai
Japanese warrior class during fuedal japan who later became scholar bureaucrats or Ronin (samurai w/o masters) after unification/adoption of chinese system
Floating Worlds
A world of entertainment/urban lifestyle in cities of Edo Osaka and Kyoto
Kabuki Performances
colorful, emotional plays, entertaiment in Edo period, men played all roles
Sumo Wrestlers
sport often during edo japan, nobunga supported it, ronin became “sumitori”
Geishas and Courtesans
sexualized woman used for entertainment in edo period
Noh Productions
Old japanese historical boring plays
Shimabara Rebellion
Christians and peasants rebelled japan’s forcing christians to convert back to old beliefs, resulted in many christian deaths and end of christian influence over japan’s peasantry. Protestant dutch aided japan in stopping catholocisms
Harbor of Nagasaki
The small piece of lands/only area of european influence, which was granted to the dutch
