Instructor:  Jean H. Braden
Room 252, Bisdorf Building

Telephone:   703-845-6357
email:
jebraden@nvcc.edu

Topic 2
Tokugawa Japan

 

 

Questions for Consideration:
1.  What indigenous factors helped the Japanese respond so quickly to the Western threat, and what indigenous factors prevented the Chinese from doing otherwise?
2. What was the nature of Japanese society and economy during the period of the daimyos?

 

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Ashikaga Daimyo Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
(1536-1598)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
(1542-1616)
Samurai
The Nagasake Trade "Dutch Learning" Floating World
Hokusai

OdaNobunaga
(1534-1582)                                                

 
Mito Nagoya  
Wakayama Noh Theater  
Kubuki Haiku  
"Floating World"` Tokkaido Route  
Yoshiwara District Hokusai  
"japonoiserie" Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji  
Commodore Matthew Perry Treaty of Kanagawa  
Outer Daimyo Meiji REstoration  
   

ASSIGNMENT
Murphey, Chapter 12