Japanese Industrialization Study Guide with complete
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
Japan had originally allowed Christian missionaries into the country, but this
changed and Christianity was outlawed, with those refusing to disavow their faith
being
Burned at the stake
The Treaty of Kanagawa, signed at Yokohama in 1854, dealt specifically with the
U.S. demand for
Humane treatment of castaways.
The Harris Treaty of 1858 allowed for
Foreigners to reside in Edo and Osaka.
Read the excerpt from Commander Matthew Perry's account of landing in Japan
(1853). To impress the Americans when they landed, the Japanese had arranged
Regiments of troops
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
Japan had originally allowed Christian missionaries into the country, but this
changed and Christianity was outlawed, with those refusing to disavow their faith
being
Burned at the stake
The Treaty of Kanagawa, signed at Yokohama in 1854, dealt specifically with the
U.S. demand for
Humane treatment of castaways.
The Harris Treaty of 1858 allowed for
Foreigners to reside in Edo and Osaka.
Read the excerpt from Commander Matthew Perry's account of landing in Japan
(1853). To impress the Americans when they landed, the Japanese had arranged
Regiments of troops
