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What was it like to live in a closed environment?

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Japan as an open nation:
what was it like before the isolation

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Japan as a closed nation: under whose rule and for what purpose

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What does the work you did in the library have to do with your independent study? How is it connected?

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What does the work you did in the library have to do with your independent study? How is it connected?

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From what I can tell, the work we did in the library was to help us understand the are and the calm of Japanese culture. It was said in the readings that we looked at about the different crafts that there was more than a singular meaning for their creation. Origami is for a non-permanent art with lasting effort required. Shibori was the manipulation of the solid dye that creates beautiful patterns due to the fabrics different hold and pinches. Calligraphy was us to make the simpler things such as writing into liquid stories that splash against the paper. I think that this work was to show us the more religious side of the culture. Zen Buddhism was mentioned at the end which is the more prominent religion in Japan. Perhaps this was an exercise to look at things from a new perspective

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Japan is currently an open country that still remains effected by Perry and his drastic efforts in persuading the country to open its borders.

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Sort through these scholarly works on SAKOKU:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&bquery=sakoku&cli0=FT1&clv0=Y&type=0&site=eds-live

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look at chapters and overview:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=791836&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_iv

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Scholarly essay on why Japanese moral outlook changed:

Muramatsu, Koichiro. "SECLUSION, JAPAN'S TRAGEDY." The Annals of the Hitotsubashi Academy 2, no. 1 (1951): 104-21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43751248.

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" The following edict of 1635 was issued by the shogunate to the officials administering the busy port of Nagasaki, the site of most of Japan’s foreign contacts at the time.
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Some of the Japanese converted to Christianity which was tolerated until a successor began an anti-foreigner and anti-christian movement leading to Japans isolation from the west and the rest of the world.

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For nearly a century Japan, with approximately 500,000 Catholics by the early 1600s, was the most spectacular success story in Asia for European missionaries. Why did so many convert? Some undoubtedly were attracted by the Christian message of salvation, but others hoped to gain economic or political advantage.

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Is Japan closed today? What suggests that it is or isn't?