solution
Japan needed to move away from this in order to embrace industrialization.
Isolationism
The Sengoku period was one in which
Japan entered into a 150-year period of almost constant civil conflict between powerful warlords
Read the excerpt on the bakufu. Under the rule of Tokugawa leyasu, the samurai began a
transition from warriors to
Bureaucrats
Real the excerpt on the bakufu. Read and final authority in the bakufu system moved into
the hands of the
Shogun
One of the most important art forms to develop during the Tokugawa shogunate was the
development of
Woodblock printing
Read the excerpt from Yamamoto Tsuentomo's The Way of the Samurai (17th century).
For a samurai, to be the retainer of a great lord meant renouncing
Self-interest
Read the excerpt from Yamamoto Tsuentomo's The Way of the Samurai (17th century).
According to Yamamoto Tsuentomo, one must fit oneself inwardly with intelligence,
humanity, and
Courage
The Tokugawa shogunate built a new capital in the Kanto region, at the fishing village of
Edo, the site of the modern city of
Tokyo
Why was the merchant class the lowest class in Tokugawa?
Merchants were seen as relatively useless because they didn't produce anything.
To isolate Japan from foreign influence, Tokugawa leyasu banned all of the following
except
Trade with the Dutch and Chinese