Edo period

The most important feature of the medieval period is that the samurai (warrior-administrators) replaced the court government in managing local government. Because the court government had no police force, bands of samurai gained power when the Heian government neglected the administration of the provinces. Samurai strength rested on strong group loyalty and discipline. These bands managed large areas of rice land in eastern Japan, around modern Tôkyô. In 1185 a new government was founded by…

The Tashio period started in the middle of World War I and lasted till 1926. The biggest significance that took place in this period was how powerful the Japanese Navy was at the time. The navy was so powerful that the United States and Great Britain had all agreed on an agreement that would force Japan to limit their navy even more than the limits of the United States and Great Britain. The Showa Period started right at the beginning of the Great Depression…

small area country. Among the long history of Japan, it has had three particular economic and political periods. The first period is Edo period which began in 1603, and ended in 1868. The Meiji period began right after Edo period with enthroning of Emperor Meiji. After the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end of World War II in 1945, Japan had begun the third period which is the post-war period. The position of Japan relative to the Asian mainland and the cultural philosophies that the…

unassailable armed strength and unquestioned monopoly over the office of the shogun. However, their power was revolved around the shogun’s own lands, which could be considered as a super-daimyo domain. The shogun ruled some important ports and cities like Edo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagasaki. The Tokugawas also set out to create institutions that would stabilize political and social conditions and thereby prevent a lapse back into feudal warfare, which had existed for several centuries earlier. The…

honor that they even were prepared to kill themselves if they broke its rules. And so, Samurai were relied by their government, also landowners. The film Tasogare Seibei (Twilight Samurai) relating some aspects of the life of Samurai near the end of Edo era gives audiences a more deepen knowledge. Firstly, I’d like to begin with the position of samurai. Samurai who were known as royal servants of high class of society generally such as their government and landowners to fight their wars and…

because they created it themselves, and were not influenced by other countries outside of Japan. However, modernization of Japan occurred changing the country’s political, social, and economic outlooks during the Meiji Period. Meanwhile, After the Edo Period came to an end in 1868, the Shogun retired due to its weakness, and the Emperor became so powerful that it took over the country, influencing many of…

become a stereotype that Japanese are shy. Shyness is considered to be a prominent characteristic in Japanese people by foreigners which has roots in the culture of the Edo period, the Japanese way of education, and high ethnic consciousness. First, the custom of Japanese Edo era has considered as a reason Japanese are shy. During the Edo era, there was a hierarchy: Emperor, Shogun, Daimyos, Samurai, Ronin, Peasant, Artisans, and Marchant. Emperor was the figurehead, Shogun to Ronin were warrior…

In the Edo period, some families used two different ways to track their families lineage. The Mori family used two ways. One way they tracked their lineage was through the government. The government-use version of their lineage tracked the males of the household and the services they did for the lord. “The names of all male heirs were entered into it.” When it came to marriages and criminal records, they were the only place you could find a woman. Their names were not identified. Instead, they…

The Tokugawa period was a cultural infusion of new forms of art. One form of art was practiced in the form of painting using a tedious process to get a spectrum of colors. Many woodblock paintings were like snapshots of everyday life. They weren't always drawn of wealthy aristocrats, rather a farmer's life. They were used to experience the unornamented, simple life. Some paintings are more urbanized and some are in rural areas. A common quality of many of the images is the presence of nature.…

Ikegami begins the reading at the end of the sixteen-century, which marks the start of the Edo period. Japan had just ended their long tumultuous battles when Tokugawa Ieyasu won the Summer Battle of Osaka in 1615 with a decisive victory. (151) This victory affirmed the military preeminence of the Tokugawa forces and they subsequently inaugurate themselves as the “Great Public Authority” (O kogi), sealing its sovereignty over Japan. (Ikegami 151) It was essential for the Shogunate to legitimate…