Ashikaga shogunate

Yaeko “Yae” Yamamoto Niijima is not very well known. She is not known here in the western world and she is known barely in her home country of Japan. This, to me, is a sad thing because Yae is one of the most remarkable women I have ever heard about. The daughter of a samurai, a teacher, a nurse and a warrior Yae should be better known than she is because her tale is one of strength, determination, grief, and forgiveness. A woman who took no guff and one that is finally being recognized for what…

culture and the display of material culture. Tea diaries, such as “Gathering Records of Tennōjiya” (Tennōjiya kaiki), are useful primary sources utilized to explain the tea culture, practices, and the art spectacle prior to the foundation of Tokugawa Shogunate. Chronicles, letters, and diaries of warlords are also frequently referenced to provide related information. These arguments are crosschecked with archaeological excavations given the nature of material culture, further consolidating the…

blindsided by wanting all the power possible that she didn’t realize that her people were suffering and possible forming a rebellion. Tokugawa Ieyasu brought stability to the social and economic systems of japan and unified the country under the shogunate. As a result of this he set the foundation for his descendants to rule over the next 200 years. Strong tactics included: allowing daimyo (military bureaucrats) to rule at a local level while he was still governing the country over the daimyo.…

groups of people and each group having a purpose in the system. The Tokogawa Shogunate was responsible for controlling the samurai class and collecting taxes, defending and controlling the cities. Samurais who were professional warriors, were the leaders in this period, but all of them were controlled by shoguns from the Tokogawa clan. Shoguns were essentially military dictators who were the controllers of the Tokogawa Shogunate. The peasants were farmers and fishermen. They produced food for…

Bushido, or the “way of the warrior,” calls forth the ghosts of Japan’s hallowed samurai class. A class so determined to preserve honor, they would rather stab their own stomachs in ritualistic suicide than live a shamed existence. Bushido is a code of conduct for the samurai of premodern Japan. The word samurai originally meant “one who serves” and referred to men of noble birth assigned to guard members of the Imperial Court. A strong virtue of Bushido was a strict hierarchy that emphasized…

the Tokugawa Shogunate system. After the incident between the US and Japan Sakamoto grew very nationalistic along with fellow lower ranking samurai as they could empathise with their country’s situation. Nothing changed since Sakamoto’s childhood, good innocent people of all ages were being kicked to the side walk metaphorically speaking and after everything in Sakamoto’s life time he hungered for a…

Start of A Revolution – Japan The end of violence and the start of a new beginning for Japan… 11th February 2016 – Keshna Jeyandrabalan Clearing up the fog in the atmosphere, Japan has found its new beginning after many years of war. The Sengoku period or also known as the Warring States period (1467-1573), involved violent wars in which certain daimyos wanted a whole empire. This was known as the ‘Onion War’, where the daimyos overpowered the shoguns and the shoguns had no control over the…

Shogunate Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Tokugawa shogunate in the 12th, in Tokyo (Articles, 2014). The last of the shoguns consisted of those from the Tokugawa clan, the rule ended in the 16th, thus when Japanese feudal society began to disintegrate. Emperor The Emperor and his family were of the highest rank in Japanese society, as the emperor was placed as the legitimate ruler of Japan, although he was without any real political power (Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, 2014). The…

The Edo period (Tokugawa Shoganate period) was a self-efficient society based on a principle of total utilization of finite resources. It was officially established on March 24th 1603 and ended with the Meji Registration on May 3rd 1868. At this time, peace and prosperity roamed throughout Japan. The Tokugawa Shoganate period was the last primitive Japanese government which lasted between 1603 and 1867. The leaders of this government were the shogun and each shogun was a part of the Tokugawa…

Since the Meiji era to our Modern era, Nihonga was changed and Tenmyouya Hisashi created Neo-Nihonga to break out of this rut that Japanese painters have been stuck in and now wants to shake everything up for this new age. Wanting Neo-Hihonga to break free of that structure that Hihonga was given over 120 years ago and create something new and fresh. Tenmyouya Hisashi went as far as to create a whole new style called “BASARA” “which is extravagant as well as extraordinary which embodies a…