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21 Cards in this Set
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Forty-Seven Ronin Incident (come back to this)
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1703
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Oda Nabunaga
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first unifier.
disposes Ashikaga Yoshiaki, last shogunate of Muramachi; whom he helps install in first place. ends muromachi period killed by his own vassal |
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Manchuko
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1932: Japanese puppet-state. Pu-Yi emperor head of state
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San Kin Kotai
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Mandatory alternate residence. Set by Tokugawa Iemitsu.
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Mishima Yukio
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1970: commits ritual disembowelment after failing to take control of Self-Defence Forces and rouse its soldiers to take action to save Japan. "Long live His Majesty, the Emporor"
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Phaeton Incident
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1808 British warship enters Nagasaki, takes two dutch prisoners. Shogunate fears western encroachment even more
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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avenges Oda Nobunaga's death
becomes 2nd unifier 2policies = 1. land surveys with peasants as primary cultivators; pay tax to village 2. peasants can't carry swords constantly tried to invade Korea |
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Genroku Era
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1688-1704: Cultural flowering: golden age of kabuki and bunraku
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Satsuma and Choshu
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pro-imperial samurai forces try to gain control of Imperial court. Tokugawa gov tries to punish them, but fail
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Battle of Osaka
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Tokugawa attacks the Osaka castle, toyomori hideyoshi's fortress, and destroy all opposition
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Tokugawa Period
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1600-1868. Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats coalition of daimyo who claim loyalty to Toyomori family
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Taisho Period
Showa Period |
1912-1926: Yoshihito
1926-1989: Hirohito |
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Boshin War
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1868-69: Tokugawa forces try to regain power
White Tiger Battalion, Written after the Revolt |
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Sino-Japanese War
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1894-95: Treaty of Shimonoseki
:China recognizes the independecne of Korea, Japan gains Taiwan :General Nogi Maresuke, gained fame for rapid conquest of Liaodong. |
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Meiji era changes
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1. Samurai dividied into two ranks: Shizoku and Sotsu. stipend reduced. Soon can't carry swords
2. Domains converted into Prefectures. Daimyos move out of Tokyo 3. Samurai stipends taxed; actually had to fight |
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Meiji Era
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1868-1912
Miji period: restoration of imperial rule. Emperor head of state. Capital moved to Edo: renamed Tokyo |
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Nitobe Inazo
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author of Bushido: The Sould of Japan
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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in charge of Hideyoshi's successor, however, usurps his power in the Battle of Sekigahara.
Starts the Tokugawa bakufu, headquarters in Edo |
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Russo Japanese War
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1904-1905: Treaty of Portsmouth concludes hostilities. Russia recongniqes Japan's interests in Korea
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Nogi Maresuke
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famous for gaining rapid conquest of Liaodong Peninsula and Port author during the Sino-Japanese War
also successful during Russo-Japanese War committed junshi with wife when Meiji Emperor died |
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Morrison Incident
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1837
USA ships carrying Japanese castaways fired upon |
