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Tokugawa Japan was very well constructed and the emperor is ranked top but was just a figurehead. The real ruler was shogun, which was also known as the supreme military commander. Just below him was the powerful landholding samurai which was daimyo and then Samurai's warriors came after. After the warrior the peasants and artisans came, and were made up of 4-5ths of the population. At the bottom there were the Merchants but had gradually became more special to Japan.

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1) There was a period in Tokugawa Japan that was called the "Tokugawa Shogunate" and during this period they cut off all trade from all countries except maybe a few nearby countries. 2) The Tokugawa Shogunate increased urbanization. It was also the last medieval government in Japan and, this happened before modernization of the Meiji Restoration.
3) Tokugawa leyasu concluded the merge into becoming one of Japan and in the 1600s leyasu won against his rivals in the Battle of Sekigahara. The win got him loyalty of of daimyo throughtout Japan.

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"The Forest" Haiku - Rachel Ostrowski (post 3)

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"The Forest" Haiku - Rachel Ostrowski (post 3)

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A quiet forest...
A bear seeking in the night,
Roar! Silence again.

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The 3 items that the Portuguese brought to Japan (post 4)

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The 3 items that the Portuguese brought to Japan (post 4)

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Item #1: eyeglasses
Item #2: tobacco
item #3: firearms

- I think that the most important item that the Portuguese brought back were the firearms. I think this because Japanese warriors whose main weapon was a sword. These also eternally changed the time-honored tradition for them.

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What happened to Christians in Japan? - Summary (post 5)

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What happened to Christians in Japan? - Summary (post 5)

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In the year 1549, Christians missionaries started to arrive in Japan and the Japanese accepted them because there were associated with goods from China. Tokugawa leyasu soon found out that aspects from the Christians were inconvenience. Tokugawa didn't take action at first and soon, he banned Christianity and worked on ridding his country of all Christians. Leyasu then died in 1616 and then in 1637 an issue raised because 30,000 peasants from southern Japan leaded by unsatisfied Samurai. This then shook the Tokugawa shogunate because, there were so many rebels that were Christians. This lead to Japan prosecuting them and European missionaries were driven out of Japan - Overall Japan eliminated Christianity.

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What did the Japanese have that Europeans wanted? (post 7)

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What did the Japanese have that Europeans wanted? (post 7)

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All countries knew that Japan had a big trading community and the Europeans wanted to be involved in the trades. Becauses of this everyone wanted to be allies with Japan and they did this by getting on Japans good side and bringing different items that Japan would like to trade for.

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1) The Japanese were isolated for more than two-hundred years and no one was allowed to leave. By the end of the year 1639 they had completely sealed off Japan and launched a "closed country policy".
2) They remained to have only one port open which was the Nagasaki port and only for Dutch and Chinese merchants were allowed in that port.
3) Nagasaki had the largest sea ports in Southern Japan and had many varied industries like: ships, military equipment, production of ordnance, and more war equipment. This made it a great war-time importance.