Shogun Assassin

a war between two powerful clans (Hosokawa and Yamana), Japan had hence been divided into warring states. This period in history had marked the shoguns' decline in power, both militarily and politically, as well as the rise in "influential feudal lords" called Daimyos, who took advantage of the political disturbance and eventually replaced the shoguns in terms of leadership. Local Daimyos and Warlord desperately vied for the control over different regions of Japan for the next century and a half…

Dynasty existed during what was known as the Meiji Period, which lasted from about 1868 to 1912. Japan was once an isolated country that lived under the feudal system. In Japan’s feudal system, the Emperor was on top although he held little power. The Shogun, powerful military leaders, held the most power above the Daimyo, which were powerful landowners that the Samurai (soldiers) vowed to protect and serve. Still below, were the Peasants that farmed and made up most of the population. Below…

Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater Than the Differences? When comparing two things you must really put into perspective the little things that they are made up of. Two things can seem similar but that will never mean that they are exactly the same. For example, some of the things that Knights and Samurai had in common were: they both must obeyed their code of honor and stayed loyal to their king, both got paid in land, both were willing to do anything for their ruler. But what…

Swords clash and bang. The sound of war rings throughout the battlefield. Samurai and knights make this booming noise, fighting for their daimyos and lords. Thousands of miles apart, similar feudalistic societies arose, developing their own elite warrior classes. In Japan, samurai protected the peasants, their lords, and especially the Emperor. They went to war to defend the people selflessly. Knights were the Medieval warriors of Europe. These soldiers went to war on horseback and defended…

Brandon Wiggins English III Mrs. Briscoe 12 April 2017 Samurai Samurai were fierce warriors who were known to the Japanese history from shogun to ronin. shogun meaning master, ronin meaning samurai without a master. loosely translated it means "masterless samurai". samurai were the cops of their time after they were told to live in castles of the village. They were the cops of their time because they were the only ones who could carry swords in…

Christian Persecution in Tokugawa, Japan Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Introduction Japan, as a country in the Far East, has had a mixture of history, especially when it comes on the way it diplomatically interacts with the rest of the world. At some point it has been identified as a friend of the west, whereas at some other point it has presented herself as an enemy of the same. A good example of historical events, which present Japan as a controversial country in a global…

peasants of their duties. The king would give the Lords the land and the peasants to work the land. He would instruct his knights on how to proceed in battles and showed them more respect than peasants. The Emperor did not have a lot to do with Shoguns, as they were more powerful. The Daimyo’s and Samurais protected the Emperor. Although he was not powerful but well regarded, he still did not have much to do with the peasants as he was sealed off from the outside world. This Painting shows…

Revolution, on both political and social levels, that ultimately resulted in the creation of Japan, the nation state. The political structure of Japan in the Tokugawa era was a feudal one—though there was a central capital where the Emperor and the shogun resided, the primary form of government with which the citizens interacted was their immediate domain, ruled over by a landowning daimyō.…

Written by Morgan Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation is a book that centers around material culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan, covering the changes and continuities from medieval society to the early modern era through looking into famous objects that essentially shape the period. Illustrated with colorful pictures of objects, including potteries, swords and paintings, instead of utilizing only textual representation, Pitelka emphasizes on the importance of…

Absolutism means that the sovereign power or ultimate authority in the state rested in the hands of a king who claimed to rule by divine right the idea that kings received their power from God and were responsible to no one but God. Catherine The Great and Tokugawa Ieyasu were both known as prominent absolute rulers but, Ieyasu was a more effective absolutist ruler. Tokugawa controlled his country by reasonable means that wouldn’t cause uprisings and distrust while still being the only one to…