Shogun

to lose their power to that of clans. Minamoto no Yoritomo, the leader of his clan and victor of the Genpei War, decided to locate his capital in Kamakura, while governing the sharing power of Japan with the Emperor Go-Toba, who gave him the title shogun, which resided in Kyoto. Thus, establishing the first warrior government with a new notion, as stated by Jeffrey P. Mass states in “Identity, Personal Names, and Kamakura Society”, that Minamoto-led bakufu embraced warriors from all clans.…

Nationalism and Cultural Development History that written in the book, is pieces of writing that record the change of human society and cultural over time. Throughout history, we see many changes and turning points that greatly impact the society we have right now. From the early time period Rise of Rome to the American and French Revolution; the world had constantly shaping its boundaries. Society and humanities had constantly changing.The change in history are not seem as accidents. One of the…

Protest activity, prompted by prolonged inequality, arises from the frustrations of men who feel socio-economically disadvantaged and are displeased with the government’s approach towards society’s issues. The Tokugawa and Meiji periods encountered several instances of uprising amongst the peasantry—most notably those led by Oshio Heihachiro, Tanaka Shozo, and Sakura Sogoro. The story of Sakura Sogoro—a protest in which an archetypal heroic peasant martyr appealed directly to the elites in…

Tokugawa Era As Tokugawa Ieyasu once said “The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.” Tokugawas main goal was to unite Japan, no matter how long it took. To him patience was not just waiting, it was enduring the hardships and all about self control. Tokugawa came to power by claiming descent from Minamoto Yamritomo. He ruled over japan from 1590–1616, and after his death his heirs occupied the shogunate and japan enjoyed peace for more than 250…

Fukuzawa Yukichi was a lower station samurai from Nakatsu, Japan. He wanted to rise vertically on the class rank ladder, which was seemingly impossible in Japan. He thought that Japan was stuck in it’s traditional roots. During the time period western countries and the rest of the world were passing Japan by with new innovations and knowledge. The solution he proposed to solve this issue was education on Western society to create a national independence through personal independence for Japan…

Housing and Living Areas There were many different manners of houses in the Shogun Japan period. In Shogunate Japan there were originally two different types of houses, the first house being known as a pit-dwelling house, columns were inserted into a big hole that was dug in the ground and then was enclosed with grass. The second was built with the floor raised high above the ground, this style (The elevated floor) is said to have originated from Southeast Asia. The high elevated floor houses…

atomic bombs and the emperor announced this to the people via radio on the 15th. Shortly after, 350 military officers committed suicide, and they burned official documents of the war because they knew there would be war crime trials. “The Blue-Eyed Shogun” (a.k.a. Truman) had the power to disperse the Diet, “censor the press, disband political parties, issue administrative directive” with no need for consent. The key phrase for the reforms was “Demilitarize and Democratize,” which included…

establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, a military dictatorship that dominated Japan from 1192 to 1333 (Gempei War). During this time samurai were to serve daimyos(great lords) the equivalent to that of a European duke. Samurai backed up the authority of the shogun giving power over the Mikado or "Emperor"(Samurai and Bushido). Samurai without a master were known as…

The samurai are some of the most well known and recognizable figures found in history. But how did they come to be and what was their life like? The samurai warriors developed from the three major clans battling for land and power in Japan. They became their own class just before the start of the 10th century and were known by two names, one of them was samurai and the other bushi. No matter what name they went by, total loyalty was given to whomever they served and in return, the samurai…

In Japan, Samurai were of the military elite during the medieval and early-modern period. In Japanese, they are known as bushi or buke. By the 12th century, the word samurai became synonymous with bushi. It was closely associated with the middle and upper ranks of the warrior class. Usually associated with a clan and their lord, the samurai also followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushidō. Although the samurai numbered less than 10% of Japan's former population, their…